122: Halloween VII, Part 2 The Quickening: Folk Horror and Tumbbad

Bollywood is For Lovers

The witching hour is almost here, and we're not done with our annual Hindi Horror Halloween! Inspired by Kier-La Janisse's Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, we explore the folk horror subgenre and how we see it being realized in Hindi-langauge filmmaking including in Rahi Anil Barve's Tumbbad.

Show Notes:

• Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
• All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror box set
• Matt's interview with Kier-La Janisse (and his interview with Caelum Vatnsdal)
• Spectacular Optical
• "Where to begin with folk horror" by Adam Scovell
• Unholy Trinity: Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan’s Claw, and The Wicker Man
• Matt's article on Jeremy Shaw
• Popular folk horror films
• Why is folk horror so popular?
• Our list of Hindi-language folk horror
• Supplemental Episode 11: Brian Collins’ Bollywood Horrors

(INTERVAL “Tumbbad Title Track" from Tumbbad)

• Tumbbad
• Cosmic Horror and The King in Yellow (Yellow King Theory)
• Spoiler zone: 1:01:11 to 1:06:09
• The curse of competency

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