One of my favourite topics, both as a film connoisseur, and as a witch; is the recent movement to explore Folk Horror. It's really just an awesome zeitgeist, that despite all it's industrial and economic fervor, human civilization exists in a perilous balance. The Earth itself (or Mama Evie and Aunt Lili, to be more specific) -allow- us to exist.
And while they are most fair-handed, if we don't mind our manners... they will most graciously beat us into the dust... (Word to the Wise, it's totally going to happen, because people are shitheads, and we've earned it.)
In a Wastebook group that I frequent, somebody posted this delightful example of Folk Horror, a film that I could never convince my parents to rent, following the Rocky Horror Picture Show fiasco... #wedonttalkaboutthat
This is a rare example of archaic American Folk Horror, a solid direct to video B-Movie, and it shows. As I mentioned before... While A-budget movies are tightly constrained in content due to monetary concerns, B-Movies are where storytelling shines. This is where you will see people taking a risk, and quite honestly, it's where all the best stories came from, Once Upon A Time.
Since the rise of CGI, and therefore the ease of delivering more imaginative filmmaking was distributed to the world at large, this rule of filmmaking has somewhat fallen by the wayside. Fantastical stories are possible using A-Movie budgets, and again, it shows...
This is a throwback to an older time, and it carries many elements of experimental filmmaking from the time. Three-dimensional characters, Outre' topics, and a damn good time..
Seriously...
Silas Danois...
