Why shouldn’t folk horror take place in the cities? Most of the ingredients are there: isolation, ritual, and superstition. Folk horror lives whenever the folk go, after all. And while urban areas …| The Harvest Maid’s Revenge
2 posts published by Rowan Lee during September 2024| The Harvest Maid’s Revenge
A year and a half ago, I wrote the post “Searching for the American Folk Horror Zine: An Investigation,” in which I lamented the lack of a US counterpart to popular British zines such as Hellebore, Hwaet, Psychick Albion, Weird Walk and so many others. While some of the zines have occasionally dipped into American […]| The Harvest Maid’s Revenge
As I was watching 28 Years Later, an idea I’ve been chewing over for a while suddenly snapped into sharper focus. A couple of years ago, I gestured toward the strange intersection of folk horror and post-apocalyptic horror. Both subgenres express a strong back-to-the-land yearning, rooted in the real-world collective sense that modern society is […]| The Harvest Maid’s Revenge
Or should I say sub-sub-genre? There’s nothing more American than a movie that showcases both our obsessive car culture and sprawling highway system. In 1956, President Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act with the goal of building an interstate highway system that would link all cities (defined as having a population of 50,000 or […]| The Harvest Maid’s Revenge
So here I am crying in the dark of the movie theater as the trailers play. It’s all so perfectly American, the wild swings and creative risks, the power and money of Hollywood, the onscreen representations that minority groups fought for, tooth and nail, for decades. As I recline in my comfortable seat and take […]| The Harvest Maid’s Revenge
I’ll be blunt: nostalgia has played no small part in bringing us to our current moment. The desire to return to a mythic past is one of the hallmarks of fascism, and now that America has allowed an openly fascist administration to take over, I don’t think my assertion is a stretch. To point out […]| The Harvest Maid’s Revenge
Apologies for the non-folk horror content today, but to be fair, I have written previously about Matt Berry’s music in a folk horror context, so please indulge me while I review his latest release, the excellent Heard Noises (also, I asked the Folk Horror Police for permission to post this, and they said yes). When […]| The Harvest Maid’s Revenge
Rankings are bullshit, so take these numbers with a grain of salt. I’ve put together my top twenty folk horror watches of the year, along with another nine that I enjoyed for various reasons. Overall, I watched close to fifty folk horror movies over the last twelve months, and most of them were very good–but […]| The Harvest Maid’s Revenge
Recently, I got up the nerve to watch I Spit on Your Grave, one of the more notorious rape-revenge movies from the 1970s. Despite its reputation as a rough watch–and it is indeed rough—-I found myself oddly moved by the film, and it made me think about the fraught relationship that female characters in the […]| The Harvest Maid’s Revenge
It’s been a while since I’ve done much more than the occasional book review. Moving from South Korea back to the United States has pretty much kicked my ass and turned my whole world upside down. That’s not necessarily bad, though; some nice things are happening as well. I figured I’d pop in and give […]| The Harvest Maid’s Revenge
These Things That Walk Behind Me is a terrific new collection of weird, dark fiction from David Surface. My first exposure to Surface’s work was in Unquiet Slumbers: An Anthology of Folk Horror, wh…| The Harvest Maid’s Revenge
An Exploration of Folk Horror| The Harvest Maid’s Revenge
Folk horror is having its day. It was once (and in many ways still is) a tiny subgenre of horror–one so small that it’s even been referred to as a microgenre. But a quick Google or Twit…| The Harvest Maid’s Revenge
