Month: January 2018
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Folk Horror Tales: Quatermass and the Pit (1967) and Quatermass (1979)
The works of the writer Nigel Kneale have had a long and lasting influence. In the 1950’s, his three Quatermass serials for the BBC, featuring the forthright Professor Bernard Quatermass, were hugely popular dramas that tapped into fears of dehumanization that had arisen with the dawning of the Cold War. Although Kneale would script successful serials in the decades that followed, his name remained…
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Folk Horror Tales: ‘A Warning to the Curious’ by MR James (BBC, 1972)
Folk Horror, a genre which rose to popularity in the 70’s and is currently enjoying quite a revival, takes much of its inspiration from the idea of powers located in the landscape and secrets buried in the earth that are almost incomprehensible to the human mind. It’s no surprise then that the movement has drawn so often on the…
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The Knight of January
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He rides out alone into the new and open world. Shivering but protected. The ending of his story far in the distance. Damian Mark Whittle