3 posts tagged with Severin.
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Movie: Edge of the Knife
[TRAILER] Set in 19th-century Haida Gwaii, it tells the classic Haida story of a traumatized and stranded man transformed into Gaagiixiid, the wildman. The film was created primarily by indigenous people, including the co-directors, a mostly amateur crew, and the Haida cast with a budget of close to $2 million CAD, funded by the Council of the Haida Nation, the Canada Media Fund, and Telefilm Canada with an aim to preserve and teach Haida, an endangered language. [more inside]
Movie: To Fire You Come at Last
In rural 17th-century England, a group of men gather to carry a young man's coffin on the long walk to the local graveyard for burial: his father; his father's right-hand man; his best friend; and the town drunk. Much ancient folklore and superstition surround the "corpse road," and several of the party are afraid to walk it after dark. [more inside]
Movie: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
From writer/director Kier-La Janisse (author of House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films comes "a seductive mega-text" (Indiewire) through the history of folk horror. Exploring the rural roots, occult creeds and cultural lore that continue to shape international cinema, this SXSW Audience Award winning documentary features clips from over 200 films and interviews with more than 50 filmmakers, authors and scholars. Severin Films presents this "astounding achievement" (Screen Anarchy) that Rue Morgue calls "an unprecedented journey into where folk horror has been, where it's going and ultimately what it says about humanity." [more inside]
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