Manners & Madness: A Jane Austen & David Lynch Podcast

This week is our last movie of Folk Horror Summer, The Devil’s Bath, and it really brought us full circle, touching on many of the themes of our previous movies.

This week we are covering Netflix’s 2017 movie the Ritual. We talk about its interesting monster and find out what monster we are at the end.

This week we are getting into the real horror side of Folk Horror Summer with Ari Aster’s Hereditary. With some amazing acting, exceptional directing and truly terrifying scares we found a lot to dig into with this one.

As we begin the second half of Folk Horror Summer, we dip our toes into The Virgin Spring, Ingmar Bergman’s Academy Award winning movie from 1960. Parallels and themes are emerging and we are beginning to see what makes Folk Horror, Folk Horror.

This week for Folk Horror Summer we are watching Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock. Nymphlike girls clad in white, disturbing disappearances and mysterious landscapes give this classic a dreamlike quality that we found bewitching.