
Mysticism in Film: ‘The Blood on Satan’s Claw’ (1971)
❉ Piers Haggard’s film is, along with The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General, one of the trinity of great British folk horror films.
❉ Piers Haggard’s film is, along with The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General, one of the trinity of great British folk horror films.
❉ The first film in Fritz Lang’s ‘Dr Mabuse’ trilogy is one of the great master-works of silent cinema.
❉ Shane Carruth tackles the nature of god, the interconnectivity of all living things, the mechanics of love and relationships, PTSD and pig farming.
❉ Jean Rollin’s lysergic fever dream combines magical feminism, paganism, eroticism, Sadean satire… and vampires!
❉ Tarkovsky’s penultimate feature film is about faith, madness and frustrated dreams.
❉ The concluding part of our walkabout through Peter Weir’s most underrated film of the seventies.
❉ A two-part guide through the outback of Peter Weir’s most underrated film of the seventies.
❉ We go inside The Wicker Man – one of the most iconic British films ever made, and an apex of the folk horror genre.
❉ In Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film Stalker, a guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
❉ We conclude our odyssey of oddities through Philippe Garrel’s allegorical mindfuck of sand, fire and ice…
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