WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED - ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS: A COMPENDIUM OF FOLK HORROR (Boxset)
The most comprehensive collection of its kind begins with the definitive genre documentary of our time, Kier-La Janisse’s award-winning WOODLANDS DARK & DAYS BEWITCHED. From there, experience 19 of the best-known, least-known, rarely-seen and thought-lost classics of folk horror from around the world, all restored from the best available vault elements with Special Features that include short films, audio commentaries and exclusive featurettes. The ultimate genre exploration continues with the original WOODLANDS soundtrack by Jim Williams and a reading of the classic short story ‘The White People’ by actress Linda Hayden, as well as a 126-page illustrated book curated by Janisse and designed by Luke Insect featuring all-new writings by renowned film scholars, authors and historians. (https://severinfilms.com/products/folk-horror-box)
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- DirectorKier-La JanisseStarsLinda HaydenIan OgilvyKevin KölschA thorough overview and dissection of the subgenre of 'folk horror, ' with contributions from many of the major creators and clips from cinema all over the world.
- DirectorAvery CrounseStarsDennis LipscombGuy BoydRebecca StanleyA preacher is accused of adultery, and he and his followers are chased out of town. They become stranded in an isolated forest, which is haunted by the spirits of French colonists controlled by evil.
- DirectorSam WeissStarsJohn CarradineJohn Carradine narrates the Washington Irving story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman.
- DirectorBarbara HirschfeldA Tribal Film. Made by a Vermont collective of women led by Barbara Hirschfeld and Julia Haines. A fascinating feminist experimental fiction shot on location in Vermont about a group of witches performing white magic.
- DirectorRyan MackfallStarsCiaran ClarkeKevin HorshamNoah Wallace1907, Massachusetts. A scholar drifts from his path and finds himself in a house he takes for deserted. Deserted, apart from a beguiling book containing dark secrets that exerts a powerful hold over those who come into contact with it.
- DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsMirjana NikolicPetar BozovicSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicA young man wants to marry the beautiful daughter of a landowner who refuses to allow the marriage. To prove his worth, the young man becomes a miller in a vampire-infested local mill.
- StarsDjordje KadijevicAn interview with filmmaker Djordje Kadijevic about his films LEPTIRCIA, STICENIK and DEVINCANSKA SVIRKA.
- DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsMilan 'Caci' MihailovicBranko PlesaDusan JanicijevicA terrified young man is running away from the mysterious man in a black coat and a bowler hat. He finds the asylum in the nearby mental hospital, where the doctor takes care of him. However, one cannot escape from his fate.
- DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsOlivera KatarinaGoran SultanovicIvan JagodicA young man Ivan travels in a carriage, and stops to rest in a remote castle somewhere in the lowlands. The castle is considered by locals to be haunted. The coachman doesn't want to carry on, so Ivan continues his journey by foot. A young kid who passes by tells Ivan about the castle, but the next minute the carriage kills him. Sibylle, a beautiful but strange woman comes out of the carriage and helps Ivan to carry the dead kid into the castle, which turns out to be her home. After her husband's death, Sybille lives there only with her coachman Bartholomew. Upon his arrival, Ivan starts to hear strange music coming from unknown place. Ivan and Sibylle fall in love with each other, but the mystery of music is yet to be find out.
- DirectorOtakar VávraStarsVladimír SmeralElo RomancikJosef KemrIn the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
- DirectorKonstantin ErshovGeorgiy KropachyovAleksandr PtushkoStarsLeonid KuravlyovNatalya VarleyAleksey GlazyrinA young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsIvan MozzhukhinNathalie LissenkoPolycarpe PavloffPastor Talnox furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the hero to theft and spiritual fall.
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsTamara DuvanIvan MozzhukhinVera OrlovaWhile hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsAndrey GromovIvan LazarevV. VasilyevThe subject of a mysterious portrait emerges from the painting and terrorizes the young man who hung it in his room.
- DirectorKåre BergstrømStarsErling LindahlBjørg EnghHenny MoanA group of friends travel to a cabin in the Norwegian forest. It's a rumor that at night a crazy man can be heard screaming at a lake nearby the cabin.
- DirectorViðar VíkingssonStarsRóbert ArnfinnssonHelga BernhardKristján Franklin MagnússIn the year 1940 when there were British forces in Iceland, a country boy goes to Reyjavik to work for the army. He also wants to know what became of his childhood sweetheart. He soon discovers that she's having an affair with a British soldier. He starts to suspect that the soldier, instead of being an officer and a gentleman, is in fact a very peculiar kind of monster.
- DirectorMario AndreacchioStarsArthur DignamPenny CookGary SweetA doctor treats a sick aboriginal person, who had defied a tribal taboo and visited a sacred cave. The doctor soon finds herself having disturbing dreams and finds herself involved in a 200-year-old mystery.
- DirectorJames BogleStarsZoe CaridesTom JenningsEric OldfieldThe residents of a housing development find themselves in trouble after they discover that their development was built on top of a sacred aboriginal graveyard, on which a curse was placed upon anyone who disturbed it.
- DirectorJarret GahanStarsZoe CaridesAn audio interview with acclaimed Australian actress Zoe Carides about her first feature-film role in KADAICHA.
- DirectorJarret GahanStarsPeter WestheimerAn audio interview with composer Peter Westheimer about his work on the 1988 production KADAICHA.
- DirectorJarret GahanStarsJames BogleZoe CaridesCandid behind-the-scenes footage from the Australian film KADIACHA, unearthed and edited together to give you a window into the production of the 1988 feature.
- DirectorAnn TurnerStarsRebecca SmartNicholas EadieVictoria LongleyAn imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural Australia.
- StarsAnn TurnerAn interview featurette with filmmaker Ann Turner.
- DirectorJarret GahanStarsKen SallowsAn interview featurette with Australian veteran editor Ken Sallows about his career from its humble beginnings at Crawford Productions in the early-seventies through to his work on Ann Turner's CELIA in 1988.
- DirectorIan CoughlanStarsJoanne SamuelLou BrownBunney BrookeA young girl is subjected to a reign of terror so that her soul can be transferred to the body of an old crone.
- StarsAlexandra Heller-NicholasA video essay about Satanic Panic in Australia from Rosaleen Norton to Alison's Birthday, based on Alexandra Heller-Nicholas's chapter of the same name from the book "Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s".
- DirectorMarek PiestrakStarsKrzysztof JasinskiIwona BielskaStanislaw BrejdygantKacper, an ex-guerrilla soldier is chased by a female werewolf, realizes that he is possessed by the spirit of his deceased wife Maryna. He also recognizes the same werewolf symptoms in Julia, a predatory countess who has a relationship with an Austrian officer.
- DirectorJanusz MajewskiStarsJózef DuriaszEdmund FettingGustaw LutkiewiczA pastor studying folklore in remote parts of 19th century Lithuania is invited to stay with a young nobleman. His mother is sequestered and mad. It seems she has been attacked by a bear as a young wife and local peasants whisper the young man may be the son of a bear. A doctor, who treats the mother with old-fashioned remedies, reveals this to the pastor. Young nobleman's wife is found with a bite and the man has disappeared into the woods.
- DirectorRyszard BugajskiStarsRon LeaGraham GreeneMichael HoganA white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.
- DirectorWillie DunnA musical telling of the life of the Blackfoot Chief and the betrayal and fall of his tribe with the White conquest of the Canadian West.
- DirectorMichael MitchellMort RansenStarsMichael MitchellA documentary about a group of native Americans near the Canadian border. They attempt to blockade a road that runs through their land, leading to the Canadian police getting involved to open the road.
- DirectorMichael PetersonStarsJulian Black AntelopeWilma PellyDavid LeReaneyInspired by true events, residential school survivor Jacob Wematim, struggles to hang onto his land and indigenous identity as his personal demons resurface and manifest in the form of the Wendigo spirit.
- DirectorBrunello RondiStarsDaliah LaviFrank WolffAnna María AvetaA lonely, sexually-uninhibited young peasant is subjected to an exorcism after she hexes a man who rejects her advances.
- DirectorMariano BainoStarsLouise SalterVenera SimmonsMariya KapnistA girl travels to an island, after the death of her father, to find out why the father funded a monestary on the island.
- DirectorBen WheatleyStarsJulian BarrattPeter FerdinandoRichard GloverAmid the Civil War in 17th-century England, a group of deserters flee from battle through an overgrown field. Captured by an alchemist, the men are forced to help him search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field.
- DirectorChris NewbyStarsNatalie MorseGene BervoetsToyah WillcoxIn the 14th-century, a visionary girl is to become an Anchoress, a walled-in recluse, so that she can live in the Virgin's house forever. Over time she awakens to her own sensuality and explores her own female, earth-based spirituality.
- DirectorChris Newby
- DirectorChris Newby
- DirectorAlan ClarkeStarsSpencer BanksJohn AtkinsonGeorgine AndersonSummer 1955, and pastor's son Stephen must come to terms with his own identity amid societal pressure, religious guilt and his own imaginings.
- DirectorDigby RumseyStarsRonald ForfarRoger WatkinsPeter RutherfordThe colleagues of an executed highwayman pledge to save his soul.
- DirectorJames MacTaggartStarsAnna CropperAmanda WalkerJulian HollowayAfter a long-term relationship ends, Norah moves to a remote house in the country. The locals are friendly., if eccentric. She starts a flirtatious relationship with young gamekeeper, Rob. But events at a festival have her feeling manipulated. Only later, do the consequences of that relationship leave her trapped in a nightmare.
- DirectorDean PuckettStarsGrant GillespieMolly CaseyDenise StephensonIn an isolated church community in the English countryside, a powerful hate preacher prepares to deliver a sermon to his flock, but his daughter has a secret that could destroy them all.