there is a contrast btw the Eastern Europe’s (or Slavic horror more general) weird and eerie folktales that reside in the midst of daytime, there’s no clash of value systems, it’s more fairy horror than folk horror.the whole heritage industry (from the 1980s UK) has this entire underbelly, completely at odds with this beautified countryside Arcadia, so-called traditionalistic yet completely censored and repackaged for today’s idyllic back-to-the country ideals (in its worst elitist, normative, high cultural aristocratic sense), the whole landscape it alive with these often brutal remains or traumas.the unruly polytheistic and animist underground that these movies present, and the syncretism that is everywhere made visible, even the most dogmatic and textbook monotheism is nothing but a Frankenstein, made up of various pre-, alter- and proto- traditions, cults, religious experiences and customs.I will outline a few ideas that stuck with me: It is worth using as a curriculum material and I could imagine it being used for various ‘educational’ purposes. I think any review would fall short of the diversity of materials and references that this documentary puts at our disposal. The Wickerman is one one of the central folk horror trinity 1970 movies
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