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I'm on the phone with Ashven, and today we are discussing The Blood on Satan's Claw from 1971, directed by Pierce Haggard, written by Robert Wynne Simmons

and Pierce Hagerd, starring Linda Hayden, Patrick Weymark, Barry Andrews, and Michelle Dautress,

and in this film, a 17th or 18th century English village is plagued by mysterious events

that may be linked to the recent unearthing of some remains that don't

look quite human. Everywhere I looked, it was either 17th century or 18th century. I'm not sure which is

true. If you're new to the show, we're going to talk about this movie, spoiler-free for the first

15 or 20 minutes, but after that, we're going to take a little break and play some transition music, and after that music, we're going to start to spoil things,

so that is the time to duck out and go watch this if you haven't already.

This is a folk horror film, Ashford.

Yeah. Why do you think folk horror is a genre? genre like who's out there asking for uh folkhor well

no one was asking but pierce haggard gave it to us he i think is really the one who coined the term

oh okay got it um fangoria interviewed him in 2004 and he said that when he made the blood on Satan's

clock, he was trying to make a folk horror film.

Oh, that's so interesting, because a lot of these movies came out like way long time ago,

so that term didn't come out until mid-2004?

I don't think it was in the lexicon until at least 2004, but what really, like, brought it out into the light was a 2010 episode of a show, a British TV show called A History of Horror with host Mark Gatis and Gatis says, you know, there's this loose collection of films that shared a common

obsession with the British landscape, its folklore, and its superstitions.

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