Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)

WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films – Michael Reeves’ Witchfinder General (1968), Piers Haggard’s Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) and Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973) – through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European horror, to the genre’s revival over the last decade. Touching on over 100 films and featuring over 50 interviewees, WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED investigates the many ways that we alternately celebrate, conceal and manipulate our own histories in an attempt to find spiritual resonance in our surroundings.This documentary was fascinating in a lot of ways but they ruined it with their heavily biased leftist ideology. This was disappointing but I’m not surprised since the left has totally taken over cinema. Also, don’t watch this if you don’t like spoilers because they reveal spoilers for quite a few of the movies.