Manners & Madness: A Jane Austen & David Lynch Podcast

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.

This week we are watching Mario Bava’s directorial debut, Black Sunday. It’s very atmospheric, a little vampiric, and chock full of curses and mayhem.

This week we timed our third Folk Horror Summer movie to align with the astrological calendar so we watched Midsommar for Midsummer. It was a very interesting movie that really captured the essence of Folk Horror and we had a lot to discuss.

This week we are covering Eve’s Bayou for Folk Horror Summer. Made in 1997 set in the 1960’s yet somehow timeless, this movie light on the horror but heavy on the atmosphere and excellent in every way.

This week we are kicking off Folk Horror Summer with a silent movie from 1922, Häxan. Not only is it about the history of witches but it a piece of the history of movie making and one of, if not the first, Folk Horror Movies.