Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain

From Kill List to Blood on Satan's Claw, celebrate May Day with a journey into the dark heart of the English countryside Folk horror sounds like a contradiction in terms, like a blend of Aran knitwear and paranoia, morris-dancing and carnage. Mark Gatiss popularised the phrase, which is apt, since The League of Gentlemen helped seed the genre's recent revival. The League found the funny in The Wicker Man, though it wasn't hard to locate: it was always difficult to take seriously a movie where a ...