These aren't the stories your mother told you.

No, these are the other stories.

If you recently went to the cinema to watch Ariasta's new folk horror film, Mid-Summer,

then you might have left thinking, keep me the hell away from those people.

Those people in the white shirts and the blonde hair, those people that are all consumed in their beliefs

that they don't mind cutting you or your friends down

Simply to celebrate their gods curry favour to grow a great garden of potatoes and carrots for the following year

Keep me away from that cult

To me there's nothing scary than belief and coming up against belief and being ruled against

Someone else has set up beliefs that I don't believe in myself.

I find it absolutely terrifying because belief is powerful.

When Edward Woodward kept his appointment with the wicker man,

he called out his prayers to his Catholic God whilst he was burned to the ground.

Again, just for some...

I'm trying to grow...

Satsumas and oranges and stuff on that one.

On that...

On the Wicker Man back in the 70s.

And then when Rosemary finds a secret passage in her apartment

leading up to a secret room of Satanists

and she meets her baby for

the first time her own belief caves completely and she bends to the will of the of the Satanists

...