FOLK Pt 5: The Night of the Hunter (1955) & Onibaba (1964)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2018
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
"Leaning...leaning..."
This week Mike ventures out of Britain to explore some early international examples of folk horror. Firstly he is joined by Paul Ridd to discuss THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) and then by Kevin Lyons to discuss ONIBABA (1964).
Music by Jack Whitney.
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Paul Ridd is a distribution executive for Picturehouse UK and can be found on TWITTER.
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| 0:00.0 | The 1995 two young children are on the run for their lives through America's rural deep south. |
| 0:28.3 | After escaping down the river, they soon find shelter in a barn. For a while everything seems peaceful and all they can hear are the calming sounds of the |
| 0:38.9 | countryside. |
| 0:40.5 | But soon enough they begin to hear something else. |
| 0:45.0 | Leaning, |
| 0:47.0 | safe and secure from all arms. |
| 0:59.0 | Traditionally we think of folk horror as something specifically linked to Britain, to its history and its landscape. |
| 1:05.7 | But all around the world, international filmmakers were also making these dark, weird, sinister |
| 1:10.6 | horror movies based on their own country's cultural identity, their folk laws, and their superstitions. |
| 1:17.0 | Over in Japan were a slew of strange, rural period set horror movies by filmmakers such as Canato Shindu. |
| 1:27.0 | Meanwhile over in the USA, Hollywood actor Charles Lawton made a movie that seemed the complete |
| 1:38.2 | antithesis to the current trend of optimistic, technicolor, cinematic crowd pleases that were so popular in the mid-50s. |
| 1:46.8 | This movie looked back to America's bleak recent history, the time of the Great Depression, |
| 1:52.4 | and it took a scathing cynical view of religion, |
| 1:56.1 | capitalism, and the fairy tale of the American Dream. Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. |
| 2:07.0 | He had a pretty life. |
| 2:10.0 | He's pretty life. |
| 2:11.0 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of folk horror and we journey away from |
| 2:16.9 | Britain to review Kanato Shindu's Oni Bar Bar and Charles Lawtons The Night of the Hunter. |
| 2:24.0 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. |
| 2:38.0 | If you're tuning in for the first time then welcome in this podcast we explore and |
| 2:41.5 | dissect the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-genres |
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