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24-615: Foxcote may refer to several places in England: Foxcote, Gloucestershire , a hamlet in Withington parish Foxcote, Somerset , a small village in Hemington parish another name for Foscott, Buckinghamshire Foxcote Reservoir and Wood , Buckinghamshire [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with

48-454: A film that would later be renamed The Blood on Satan's Claw . The director of The Blood on Satan's Claw , Piers Haggard , adopted the phrase to describe his film in a 2004 retrospective interview for the magazine Fangoria . In the interview, Haggard notes how his film contrasted with the Gothic horror films popular in the previous decade: I grew up on a farm and it's natural for me to use

72-401: A real settler or the legendary Germanic hero Witege). The other English places called Withington may have different origins. In his 1955 work, H. P. R. Finberg argued for continuity between Anglo-Saxon Withington and an earlier Roman settlement. During Saxon times there was an important monastery at Withington. The parish church of St Michael and All Angels dates from the 12th century and

96-625: A regular stream of folkloric horror; from Jonathan Miller 's Whistle and I'll Come to You (BBC, 1968) and Lawrence Gordon Clark 's yearly A Ghost Story for Christmas strand for the BBC (1971–1978). ITV, meanwhile, produced the Alan Garner adaptation The Owl Service (1969), Nigel Kneale 's Beasts (1976) and the HTV drama Children of the Stones (1977), which share a theme of ancient folklore seeping into

120-472: A review of The Medium , which draws inspiration from Thai folklore , Kong Rithdee wrote in The Bangkok Post : "International critics will not hesitate to tag The Medium as the latest example of "folk horror"—think Robert Eggers' The Witch or Ari Aster's Midsommar . But Southeast Asian horror has always been folk horror. It's our default mode, our modus operandi , it's what audiences in this part of

144-875: A strong folk horror element, with a strange creature terrorising a farm in Cornwall. From 1984 to 1986, ITV produced the pagan -influenced adventure series Robin of Sherwood . This was a retelling of the Robin Hood legend, which sometimes featured disturbing supernatural elements drawn from British folklore. The BBC comedy horror series The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017) referenced and homaged several folk horror works in its episodes, including The Wicker Man and Beasts . Folk horror elements sometimes turn up in American television productions. For instance, The X-Files episode " Home " (1996) has been described by writer Matt Berger as an example of American folk horror. In

168-461: Is a Cotswold village and civil parish in Gloucestershire , England, about 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Cheltenham and 8 miles (13 km) north of Cirencester. The River Coln runs through the village. The parish includes the hamlets of Hilcot , Foxcote and Cassey Compton . The parish population taken at the 2011 census was 532. The site of a Roman villa lies to the south of

192-807: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Folk horror The cultural evolutionism of E. B. Tylor and James Frazer and the witch-cult hypothesis of Margaret Murray influenced a series of writers, who introduced ideas of pagan survivals in their fiction. Influential British turn of the century horror writers M. R. James , Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen produced seminal works of folk horror, notably James' collection Ghost Stories of an Antiquary , Machen's novella The Great God Pan and Blackwood's novella The Wendigo . Maria J. Pérez Cuervo cites Grant Allen 's Pallinghurst Barrow (1892), John Buchan 's Witch Wood (1927), and Eleanor Scott's Randall's Round (1929) as early examples of folk horror fiction. Cuervo argues that, following

216-504: Is a Grade I listed building . The church was altered in the 15th century when the Perpendicular clerestory and higher tower were added, and has been described as "a typical example of an important Cotswold church". From 1891 to 1961, Withington had a railway station on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway which ran between Cirencester and Cheltenham . The Mill Inn, now

240-500: The 1952 Finnish horror film The White Reindeer , in which a lonely bride is transformed into a vampiric reindeer, an idea derived from Finnish mythology and Sámi shamanism . Matthew Sweet , in his Archive on 4 documentary Black Aquarius , observes that the late 1960s counterculture movement led to what he terms a "second great wave of pop occultism" which pervaded popular culture, with many film and television works containing elements of folkloric or occult rituals. Whereas

264-463: The 2020s television series such as The Third Day and The Red King continued the folk horror tradition. Darkwood is a 2017 survival horror game by Acid Wizard Studios that made extensive use of folk horror imagery and themes, notably the rural isolationism, combining them with elements of body horror . Mundaun is a 2021 first person folk horror video game by Swiss developer Hidden Fields. The atmosphere and imagery has been compared to

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288-803: The Corn (1984) (an adaptation of Stephen King 's 1976 short story ), The Blair Witch Project (1999), and the documentary Wisconsin Death Trip (1999). The films of Ben Wheatley have been seen as notable films of a modern folk horror revival, particularly Kill List (2011), Sightseers (2012), A Field in England (2013) and In the Earth (2021). Horror films from the Southeast Asia region have frequently drawn upon local folk beliefs, including those of Indonesian , Thai , Malay and Dayak cultures. In

312-582: The Demon (1957), based on M.R. James's " Casting the Runes ", has been seen by horror historian Darryl Jones as foreshadowing the "folk horror" genre. Night of the Demon features isolated rural settings and countryside people who believe in the supernatural. Adam Scovell, writing for the British Film Institute , describes three films from the late 1960s and early 1970s as the "Unholy Trinity" of Folk Horror:

336-532: The Unholy Trinity has a very distinctive British flavour, Kier-La Janisse argues in her documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror that the genre has culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European horror. Examples of "folk horror" films from the United States include Crowhaven Farm (1970), The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978), Children of

360-461: The aforementioned Blood on Satan's Claw , Witchfinder General and The Wicker Man . He says they subvert expectations, having little in common except their nihilistic tone and countryside setting, noting their "emphasis on landscape which subsequently isolates its communities and individuals". He suggests that the rise of the genre at this time was inspired by the 1960s counterculture and New Age movements. Scovell also cites an early example as

384-598: The basis of a number of British television plays of the 1970s; examples from the BBC's Play for Today strand include John Bowen 's Robin Redbreast (1970) and A Photograph (1977), David Rudkin 's Penda's Fen (1974), and Alan Garner 's Red Shift (1978), along with entries in the 1972 Dead of Night anthology series, such as The Exorcism . Adaptations of the antiquarian ghost stories of M. R. James , which derive their horror in cursed objects, medieval superstition, occult practices and witch trials, also provided

408-824: The countryside as symbols or as imagery. As this was a story about people subject to superstitions about living in the woods, the dark poetry of that appealed to me. I was trying to make a folk-horror film, I suppose. Not a campy one. I didn't really like the Hammer campy style, it wasn't for me really. The term was later popularised by writer and actor Mark Gatiss in his 2010 BBC documentary series A History of Horror (Episode 2, "Home Counties Horror") in which he cited three British-made films— The Blood on Satan's Claw (Piers Haggard, 1971), Witchfinder General ( Michael Reeves , 1968), and The Wicker Man ( Robin Hardy , 1973)—as genre-defining works. The Jacques Tourneur film Night of

432-583: The modern world. Matthew Sweet observes that occult and pagan elements even appeared in children's programmes and 1970s episodes of Doctor Who . Comedian Stewart Lee , in his retrospective of The Children of the Stones ("a tale of archaeology, occult ritual and Chopper bikes ") identifies that series as part of a "collective Sixties comedown" which includes the genre works The Owl Service , Timeslip (1970), The Tomorrow People (1973), The Changes (1975) and Raven (1977). The 1982 British TV series Westcountry Tales episode 'The Beast' also has

456-557: The only public house in Withington, is credited locally with creating the popular "chicken in a basket" fried chicken and chips meal in the 1960s. The 2000 Trees music festival is held annually at Upcote Farm, near the village. From April to May 2021, it was filmed as the fictional village of Cotson for the folk horror film Men , released in 2022 and directed by Alex Garland . 51°50′20″N 1°57′30″W  /  51.83889°N 1.95833°W  / 51.83889; -1.95833 This Gloucestershire location article

480-472: The popularity of pagan survival theories, weird fiction and supernatural fiction presented rural areas as "the domain of irrational forces that could only be appeased with certain rituals," often involving animal or human sacrifice. Shirley Jackson 's The Lottery (1948) was described in The Irish Times as "arguably the most influential North American folk horror text". The earliest known use of

504-473: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foxcote&oldid=761037793 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Foxcote, Gloucestershire Withington

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528-473: The term, though describing an artefact rather than a genre, was in John Fowles ' 1966 novel The Magus , in which an African figure is described as a folk-horror, a corn-doll bundle of black strips of rag that hung down to the ground in a series of skirted flounces. The term folk horror was used in 1970 in the film magazine Kine Weekly by reviewer Rod Cooper describing the filming of The Devil's Touch ;

552-453: The village. Remains of the villa were rediscovered in 1811 by Samuel Lysons , and investigations by the Time Team television programme for an episode first broadcast in 2006 found further Romano-British buildings east of the villa, towards the river. The origin of the name is unclear but it is found in records as early as 737 AD ( Wudiandun , which would mean the hill of Wudia: Wudia may be

576-524: The world grew up with—think Nang Nak or Pontianak as classic examples, or more recently, Joko Anwar 's Satan Slaves , Syamsul Yusof 's Munafik and Emir Ezwan's Roh ." Indonesian horror films have featured local folklore for many decades, including Satan's Slave (1980) and Mystics in Bali (1981); in the 2010s, The Queen of Black Magic and Impetigore also attracted international attention. As well as cinema, rural paganism formed

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