All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror

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Performances are pretty strong here. Anna Cropper is a good choice for the lead, bringing her character to pretty vivid life and portraying all of Norah's confusion and complexities with a realistic bent. Freda Bamford and Bernard Hepton are interesting in their supporting roles and Andy Bradford is hard to forget less for his acting than for his character's weird habits - but he makes it work! Plus Bonus Silent Short Films: Satan Exultant (1917, 20 mins), The Queen of Spades (1916, 16 mins) and The Portrait (1915, 8 mins) Plus Bonus Silent Short Films: Satan Exultant (1917, 20 mins) , The Queen of Spades (1916, 16 mins) and The Portrait (1915, 8 mins) Animator Ashley Thorpe discusses his processes and inspirations for the animated sequences he created for the film.

Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched is presented in AVC encoded 1080p high definition and framed at 1.78.1 widescreen with the feature given 43.4GBs of space on the 50GB disc. The video quality of the newly shot footage, which was clearly done on high definition digital video, looks great. It's clean, crisp and as nicely detailed as you'd expect it to be. Understandably, the archival clips vary in quality quite a bit, some look pristine while others less so, it seems to be entirely a matter of available elements. Even the lesser quality clips are more than watchable, however. Really, no problems to report here, it all looks just fine. Severin Films (Blu-ray) (US R0 HD), Second Run (Blu-ray & DVD) (UK R0 PAL) / WS (1.85:1) (16:9), Scorpion Releasing (DVD) (US R0 NTSC), Umbrella (Australia R0 PAL), Jam (Germany R2 PAL) / WS (1.75:1) (16:9) ALISON'S BIRTHDAY If the budget clearly wasn't massive, it doesn't matter most of the time. Ví¡vra and company never seem to need to overshoot, and the occasional gore effects worked into the torture scenes are as effective as they are minimalist. The score accents the horror and the drama in equal measure and even as the film approaches the two hour mark, the pacing seems spot on.This early student film from the director of TILBURY transposes the ghostly Icelandic legend of The Deacon of Dark River to 1970s France. Extras on the first disc start off with a nine minute video introduction by Writer/Director/Producer Kier-La Janisse wherein she discusses how the documentary started off as a bonus feature for Blood On Satan's Claw and then took on a life of its own, growing in length and scope by leaps and bounds. She notes how this was really her first time producing a picture, David Gregory's support of the project, the importance of knowing the right people, expanding the piece from a British-focused study to an international one, details on putting the production together and bringing it to life and more. Of note, the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched ( read Meagan’s review), directed by Keir-La Janisse, is one of the films included in the set.

Audio Commentary With Director James Bogle, Moderated By Veteran Film Journalist Michael Helms ( Fatal Visions ) When a group of Indigenous activists attempt to repatriate ancestral artifacts found in a cave on Australia’s Kangaroo Island, one of them is shot evading police and taken to a local hospital. When the patient dies in her care, the doctor attending to her experiences strange visions relating to violent events from the past.

LOKIS: A MANUSCRIPT OF PROFESSOR WITTEMBACH: Wild Country Of The Were-Bear — Interview With Director Janusz Majewski Also housed within the case is a companion book that contains an introduction by Janisse, essays and history on the genre, as well as information about each film included in the set. Like the film, it's very well organized, illustrated, and features beautiful typography. It's a premium little book. When all of this stress starts to manifest in a series of unsettling dreams that plague him with depictions of arcane rituals and sinister demons, Stephen starts to lose his grip on his own sanity.

A new video essay narrated by film scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, based on her chapter of the same name from the book “Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s.” Based on the true story of Christine Carpenter, a 14th-century peasant who becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious hermit. Alone in her cell she receives dark and sensual visions, while in the outside world, her defiant mother (played by musician Toyah Wilcox) is accused of witchcraft. This made-for-TV film shares the Icelandic lore of the Tilbury, a creature who could be summoned by women in times of financial hardship and starvation. But the gifts of the Tilbury come with their own brand of destruction. Set in 1940, during the British occupation, a country boy discovers his childhood sweetheart is having an affair with a British soldier, but suspects it could be one of the evil creatures. Extras for Leptirica begin with Radical Fairy Tales, an interview with director Djordje Kadijevic that runs for just over thirty-one minutes. He speaks about choosing the subjects for his films, adapting works of literature for the screen, his thoughts on the film's source material, getting his start making war-related films in the aftermath of WWII, other filmmakers whose work influenced his own, why he switched from making war films to making films based on fairy tales, his work as an art history professor and how it affects his filmmaking, why he made certain changes to the story when he made Leptirica, how audiences reacted to the film when it first premiered and how it was received by the press, the differences between fantasy in Eastern Europe versus Western Europe, why he is attracted to certain themes that turn up in his films, and details on some of the other films that he's made over the years.A stunning story of obsessive love, set in a rural Southern Italian village where Christianity has integrated many of the old superstitious beliefs. Daliah Lavi (THE WHIP AND THE BODY) plays Purif, who is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. Her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession—leading the villagers to turn against her with physical and sexual violence. Sheltered within a lovely ornamented slip case comes a portfolio of 12 Blu-Rays and 3 CDs, holding 20 feature films, 15 short films, and over 15 hours of special features. Each leaf of the portfolio has custom artwork pertinent to the film(s) it contains.

From The Woods To The Cosmos — John Leman Riley On The History Of Soviet Fantasy And Sci-Fi Film (34 mins) The Pledge (Digby Rumsey, 1982) (22 mins) Based on the short story by early 20th Century Fantasy Writer Lord Dunsany, The Pledge concerns a group of Highwaymen who make a pact to save the should of their hanged partner. A dark, luscious film co-edited by an uncredited Peter Greenaway and featuring music by Michael Nyman. Courtesy of The British Film Institute. The seminal American folk horror film, unavailable on home video for decades, now debuts in a new 4K restoration. A rogue 18 th century preacher and his followers make their way downriver to establish a new settlement beyond the western frontier and encounter a forest enchanted by strange spirits that will bring an apocalyptic madness upon them.

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Based on the classic novella by Nikolai Gogol, VIY remains the height of Soviet fantasy cinema. In 19th century Russia, a seminary student is forced to spend three nights with the corpse of a beautiful young witch. But when she rises from the dead to test his faith, it will summon a nightmare of fear, desire and the ultimate demonic mayhem. A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area’s pagan past still have a hold on the population. There he finds himself the guest of a strange old family consisting of a sadistic Count and his mad mother, who—legend has it—was raped by a bear on her wedding night; the Count himself reputed to be the product of this bestial assault. Composer Jim Williams and Ben Wheatley discuss the sounds and musical influences of A FIELD IN ENGLAND.