The The In 1960, critically acclaimed director In

In 1960, critically acclaimed director Inghmar Bergman made a film called

The Virgin Spring.

The film received positive reviews across the board.

It wowed critics and it even won him his first Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The Mejouma made stunningly beautiful, thought-provoking high-brow works of art, ones that were layered with subtext and big existential themes.

Maybe this is why to this day critics and historians often overlook the fact that The Virgin Spring is in fact a horror film.

Much like Bergman's other movies, including the critically acclaimed masterpiece The Seventh Seal from a couple of years earlier,

The Virgin Spring explores the dark side of humanity.

It depicts a godless world where evil exists within all of us.

As well as that, The Virgin Spring is an early example of what we now might call a

rape revenge movie, one that became the direct inspiration for one of the most

infamous brutal and reviled exploitation movies of all time, Wes Craven's last house on the left.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of folk horror,

and we explore the dark barren godless

world of Ingmar Bergman. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host.

If you're tuning in for the first time then welcome. In this

podcast we explore and dissect the evolution of the horror genre by looking at

particular sub-genres across a number of weeks. We are currently in the midst

of exploring the evolution of folk horror and this is part. of horror and reviewing Inmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal and The Virgin Spring.

Now this is your spoiler warning.

We will be discussing both these movies in depth, in spoilerific detail.

If you haven't seen these movies, well, you've got to to really. I mean you can't call yourself a cinephile

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