The American Folkhorror Of The Blair Witch Project

In 1999, a supposedly-real ‘horror film’ was released that showed us virtually nothing while filling us with a terror of virtually everything. Those of us who were young and impressionable at the time still owe our fear of camping to THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, an upstart indie film that expertly utilised internet marketing, folklore and terrific world-building to create a movie that exists to this day within a kind of urban-legend mystique, proving that American folk-horror can be done right!

Join Cian on the porch of the cabin for a beer and find out what exactly folkhorror is, why THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT is a legit example of it, and why, though it may be hard to get lost in America these days, it’s a lot easier than in Europe!

Haunting Atmosphere – CO.AG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI5U6aDcQEo

Folkhorror.com definition

https://www.folkhorror.com/

Filmschoolrejects.com definition

https://filmschoolrejects.com/folk-horror/

Sticks by Karl Edward Wagner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oua7ByrC6s

True Detective Season 1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Detective_(season_1)

Picnic At Hanging Rock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock_(film)