Show Notes

Episode 25: Folk Horror Part Two

This episode was recorded on March 24, 2024 and posted on May 4, 2024. 

Content Warning: Light vulgarity.

Introduction

• Welcome to No Bodies Episode 25
• Introductions to your Ghosts Hosts with the Most – Lonely of Lonely Horror Club and Projectile Varmint aka Suzie
• Introductions to our guests Emily & Niamh of Rowan & Pine
• Today’s Topic: Folk Horror

Film Discussion

• European Folklore
  • Hagazussa (2017)
  • Moloch (2022)
  • Dark Song (2017)
• East Asian Folklore
  • Impetigore (2019)
  • Teke Teke (2009)
• North American Folklore
  • Eyes of Fire (1983)
  • Antlers (2021)

Worst & Best Representations of Folk Horror

Worst

• Blood Born (2021) – Suzie
• A Dark Song (2016) & Hagazussa (2017) – Lonely
• Teke Teke (2009) – Niamh

Best

• The Ritual (2017) – Niamh
• Apostle (2018), The Witch (2015), Men (2022), Midsommar (2019), Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) – Lonely 
• It Follows (2014), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Pet Sematary (1989), Darkness Falls (2003), The Mothman Prophecies (2002), Boogeyman (2005), Kill List (2011), The Wind (2018), The Dark & The Wicked (2020), A Field in England (2013) – Suzie

Suzie’s Deep Cuts

• November (2017)
• Butterfly Kisses (2018)
• Little Otik (2000)
• The Feast (2021)
• The Droving (2020)
• The Twin (2022)
• A Wounded Fawn (2022)
• Maus (2017)

Closing Thoughts

• Is there a piece of folklore from your own culture you’d like to see in a folk horror film?

Thank you to our guest!

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