Special Features | DISC 1: 192 mins, 1.85, Color, Region Free WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED explores the folk horror phenomenon and its culturally specific manifestations in international horror, from its first wave in the 1970s to today. Special Features: Video Introduction By Writer/Director/Producer Kier-La Janisse (9 mins) Animating Folk Horror — A Conversation with Ashley Thorpe (12 mins) Outtake: What is Folk Horror? (2 mins) Outtake: Harvest Hymns — The Sounds and Signals of Folk Horror (22 mins) Outtake: Terra Assombrada — Expressions of Folk Horror in Brazil (7 mins) Folk Poetry (5 mins) Trailer _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DISC 2: EYES OF FIRE 86 mins, 1.85:1, Color, Region Free The seminal American folk horror film, unavailable on home video for decades, now debuts in a new 4K restoration. A rogue 18th century preacher and his followers make their way downriver to establish a new settlement beyond the western frontier and encounter a forest enchanted by strange spirits that will bring an apocalyptic madness upon them. Special Features: Audio Commentary With Colin Dickey, Author of “Ghostland: An American History In Haunted Places” The Secret Is In The Trees — “Nightmare USA” Author Stephen Thrower Interviews Avery Crounse (29 mins) Crying Blue Sky Plus Bonus Short Films: The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow (Sam Weiss, USA 1972) (13 mins) Transformations (Barbara Hirschfeld, USA 1972) (8.5 mins) Backwoods (Ryan Mackfall, UK 2018) (15 mins) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DISC 3: LEPTIRICA 65 mins, 1.33:1, Color, Region Free Based loosely on by Milovan Glišić’s classic 1880 Serbian vampire story After Ninety Years – which preceded Bram Stoker’s Dracula by nearly two decades – Djordje Kadijevic’s adaptation is a subversive, darkly erotic take on Glišić’s pastoral tale of a group of rural villagers beset upon by the infamous vampire Sava Savanovic, who has taken up residence in their local flour mill. Special Features: Radical Fairy Tales — Interview With Director Djordje Kadijevic Plus bonus short films newly remastered in HD from archival film elements at Public Service Media Radio Television of Serbia: Štićenik (Djordje Kadijevic,1973) (45 mins) Diary Of An Inmate (10 mins) Devičanska Svirka (Djordje Kadijevic,1973) (60 mins) Prisoner Of Song _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DISC 4: WITCHHAMMER 107 mins, 2:35:1, Color, Region Free Otakar Vávra’s film about 17th century witch hunter Jindřich František Boblig and the horrors he visited on the small village of Velké Losiny has been called an Eastern European counterpart to Michael Reeves’ WITCHFINDER GENERAL and Michael Armstrong’s MARK OF THE DEVIL. Special Features: Audio Commentary With Czech Film Historian And Curator Irena Kovarova The Womb Of Woman Is The Gateway To Hell (22.5 mins) The Projection Booth Podcast (62 mins) ———————— VIY 76 mins, 1.33:1, Color, Region Free Based on the classic novella by Nikolai Gogol, VIY remains the height of Soviet fantasy cinema. In 19th century Russia, a seminary student is forced to spend three nights with the corpse of a beautiful young witch. But when she rises from the dead to test his faith, it will summon a nightmare of fear, desire and the ultimate demonic mayhem. Special Features: From The Woods To The Cosmos — John Leman Riley On The History Of Soviet Fantasy And Sci-Fi Film (34 mins) Trailer Plus Bonus Silent Short Films: Satan Exultant (1917, 20 mins), The Queen of Spades (1916, 16 mins) and The Portrait (1915, 8 mins) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DISC 5: LAKE OF THE DEAD 77 mins, 2.40:1, B/W, Region Free Considered a classic of Norwegian cinema, a group of colleagues venture to a remote cabin to look for a missing friend and are spooked by an old legend: that the cabin had belonged to a man who killed his sister and her lover and then drowned himself in the lake. Since then, it is said that anyone who stays in the cabin will be driven to the same fate. Special Features: Audio Commentary With Film Historians Jonathan Rigby And Kevin Lyons ———————— TILBURY 57 mins, 1.33:1, Color, Region Free This made-for-TV film shares the Icelandic lore of the Tilbury, a creature who could be summoned by women in times of financial hardship and starvation. But the gifts of the Tilbury come with their own brand of destruction. Set in 1940, during the British occupation, a country boy discovers his childhood sweetheart is having an affair with a British soldier, but suspects it could be one of the evil creatures. Special Features: Audio Commentary With Director Viðar Víkingsson And Screenwriter Þórarinn Eldjárn, Moderated By Film Scholar Gudrun D. Whitehead With Enough Tilbury Butter, Anything Is Good — Interview With Karl Ágúst Úlfsson A Boy From The Country — Interview With Kristján Franklin Magnúss White Spot In The Back Of The Head (Viðar Víkingsson, 1979) (33 mins) “The Moon Fades, Death Rides” _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DISC 6: THE DREAMING 90 mins, 1.85:1, Color, Region Free When a group of Indigenous activists attempt to repatriate ancestral artifacts found in a cave on Australia’s Kangaroo Island, one of them is shot evading police and taken to a local hospital. When the patient dies in her care, the doctor attending to her experiences strange visions relating to violent events from the past. Special Features: Audio Commentary With Director Mario Andreacchio, Moderated By Film Historian Jarret Gahan Trailer ———————— KADAICHA 88 mins, 1.85:1, Color, Region Free Though conceived as a commercial horror film, this tale of teens being condemned to death in their dreams by an Aboriginal magician as recompense for a housing development having been built on a sacred burial ground also serves as an admission of national guilt. Special Features: Audio Commentary With Director James Bogle, Moderated By Veteran Film Journalist Michael Helms (Fatal Visions) The Final Girl Of KADAICHA (13 mins) Composing KADAICHA (17.5 mins) Behind The Scenes Of KADAICHA (7 mins) Trailer _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DISC 7: CELIA 103 mins, 1.85:1, Color, Region Free In 1950s Australia, after 9-year-old Celia hears the disturbing fairy tale of “The Hobyahs” in school, it colors her interpretation of real life conflicts such as her parents’ struggling relationship, the threat of communism and the country’s plague of rabbits. Ann Turner’s award-winning film paints a disquieting picture of innocence trying to make sense of the harsh and complex world around her through escape into dark fantasy. Special Features: CELIA And Me (40 mins) From Crawfords To CELIA (17 mins) The Rabbit In Australia (24 mins) ———————— ALISON’S BIRTHDAY 97 mins, 1.85:1, Color, Region Free Getting its first official release since the VHS era, this Australian paranormal cult is unearthed! During a Ouija board session with her teenaged friends, 16-year-old Alison gets a message from beyond the grave not to go home for her 19th birthday. Fast forward three years later to the week of her 19th: she gets a call from her mother that they’re having a party to celebrate and they want her there… alone. Special Features: Extended Interviews From NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD With Producer David Hannay And Cast Members Joanne Samuel And Belinda Giblin The Devil Down Under — Satanic Panic In Australia From Rosaleen Norton To ALISON’S BIRTHDAY _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DISC 8: WILCZYCA 103 mins, 1.33:1, Color, Region Free A domestic hit in Poland on first release, Marek Piestrak’s stunning wintry werewolf film is a sexually-charged folktale that pits a 19th century Polish patriot against the ghost of his unfaithful wife, who haunts him from beyond the grave as a she-wolf. Special Features: Unleashing The She-Wolf — An Interview With Director Marek Piestrak ———————— LOKIS: A MANUSCRIPT OF PROFESSOR WITTEMBACH 100 mins, 1:66:1, Color, Region Free A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area’s pagan past still have a hold on the population. There he finds himself the guest of a strange old family consisting of a sadistic Count and his mad mother, who—legend has it—was raped by a bear on her wedding night; the Count himself reputed to be the product of this bestial assault. Special Features: Wild Country Of The Were-Bear — An Interview With Director Janusz Majewski _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DISC 9: CLEARCUT 98 mins, 2.35:1, Color, Region Free A white lawyer arrives to a remote area in Northern Ontario to defend Indigenous activists who are blocking a logging company’s clearcut of old growth on their land. A pacifist by nature, and perceiving himself as sympathetic to Indigenous concerns, he finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry, rogue Indigenous activist named Arthur (Graham Greene) who insists on kidnapping the head of the logging company to take him deep into the forest—where he hopes to teach him the price of his destruction. Special Features: Archival Video Introduction By Director Ryszard Bugajski Audio Commentary With Scholar And Anthropologist Shaawano Chad Uran (White Earth Anishinaabe) Plus Bonus Short films: The Ballad Of Crowfoot (Willie Dunn, 1968) (10 mins) Audio Commentary For The Ballad of Crowfoot With Kevin Howes And Lawrence Dunn, Co-Producers Of Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology You Are On Indian Land (Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell, 1969) (32 mins) Consume (Mike Peterson, 2017) (20 mins) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DISC 10: IL DEMONIO 98 mins, 1.85:1, B/W, Region Free A stunning story of obsessive love, set in a rural Southern Italian village where Christianity has integrated many of the old superstitious beliefs. Daliah Lavi (THE WHIP AND THE BODY) plays Purif, who is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. Her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession—leading the villagers to turn against her with physical and sexual violence. Special Features: Audio Commentary By Film Historian Kat Ellinger “The Kid From A Kibbutz” — Daliah Lavi And The Road To IL DEMONIO (27.5 mins) Once Upon A Time In Basilicata ———————— DARK WATERS 89 minutes, 1.85:1, Color, Region Free In Mariano Baino’s groundbreaking debut, a young Englishwoman drawn to an island in the Black Sea in an attempt to discover her mysterious connection to a remote convent—a crumbling edifice that has been constructed over a labyrinth of Lovecraftian horrors. Special Features: Audio Commentary With Writer/Director Mariano Baino Deep Into The DARK WATERS (50 mins) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DISC 11: A FIELD IN ENGLAND 90 mins, 2.35:1, B/W, Region A During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle and are captured by an alchemist who forces them to help him find a hidden treasure. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group succumbs to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field. Special Features: Audio Commentary With Director Ben Wheatley, Producer Andy Starke And Sound Editor Martin Pavey Letterboxd Magic Hour Episode One: Kier-La Janisse X Ben Wheatley (45 mins) Please Hear Me — The Music of A FIELD IN ENGLAND (6 mins) Ben Wheatley In Conversation With Pete Tombs (23 mins) Camera Tests (10.5 mins) Trailer ———————— ANCHORESS 108 mins, 1.66:1, B/W, Region A Based on the true story of Christine Carpenter, a 14th-century peasant who becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious hermit. Alone in her cell she receives dark and sensual visions, while in the outside world, her defiant mother (played by musician Toyah Wilcox) is accused of witchcraft. Special Features: Lockdown 1329 (13.5 mins) A Short Trip To Shere (2.5 mins) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DISC 12: PENDA’S FEN 90 mins, 1:33:1, Color, Region A Alan Clark (Scum) directs David Rudkin’s epic tale of myth and identity whereby a sanctimonious Vicar’s son has a spiritual and sexual awakening after being visited by a series of angels, gargoyles, and the ghosts of Edward Elgar and a long-dead Pagan King. Penda’s Fen is the most magical of ALL British Folk Horror films, what Scholar Sukhdev Sandhu called “A lasting vision of heresy and pastoral horror.” Special Features: Audio Commentary by James Machin and Matthew Hale, Editors of the book “Of Mud & Flame: The Penda’s Fen Sourcebook” The Landscape of Feelings: The Road to Penda’s Fen (16 mins) A Documentary on the making of Rudkin and Clarke’s groundbreaking Drama, featuring interviews with Writer David Rudkin and Producer David Rose as well as contributions from Clarke collaborators such as Writer David Yallop, Actor Sean Chapman and Playwright David Leland. Courtesy of The British Film Institute. Plus Bonus Short Film: The Pledge (Digby Rumsey, 1982) (22 mins) Based on the short story by early 20th Century Fantasy Writer Lord Dunsany, The Pledge concerns a group of Highwaymen who make a pact to save the should of their hanged partner. A dark, luscious film co-edited by an uncredited Peter Greenaway and featuring music by Michael Nyman. Courtesy of The British Film Institute. ———————— ROBIN REDBREAST 76 mins, 1:33:1, B/W, Region A Veteran British chiller writer John Bowen penned this legendarily terrifying BBC teleplay, now considered a precursor to THE WICKER MAN. Nora Palmer moves to a quiet village in England after a break-up. The locals are warm enough at first, but their sinister intentions are gradually revealed. Is Nora paranoid or is she the center of a wicked pagan plot of indescribable horror? Special Features: Audio Commentary With William Fowler And Vic Pratt, Curators And Authors Of “The Bodies Beneath: The Flipside of British Film & Television” Interview With John Bowen (12 mins) Plus bonus short film: The Sermon (Dean Puckett, 2018) (12 mins) In 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. BONUS CDs: WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED THE WHITE PEOPLE Arthur Machen’s hugely influential short story, first published in 1904, in which a discussion between two men on the nature of evil leads to the revelation of a mysterious Green Book—the diary of a young girl, in which she describes her initiation into a secret world of folklore and magic. Here the story is brought vividly to life with an incredible reading by Linda Hayden (BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW) and a remarkable original score. ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS — 126+ Page Book |
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Format | Bluray |
Label | Severin |
All the Haunts Be Ours (Blu-ray) Severin Ltd
$350.00
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.
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