The second film in the Hermanos of Horror celebration of Folk Horror is 2015’s The Witch: A New England Folktale- and with a title like that it’s a fairly obvious contender for our Unholy Trinity. For the third time in a row I’m finding a way of describing a film that isn’t afraid to take its time. To say that it is a slow burning film is an understatement. Describing The Witch is tricky, there is more than a touch of The Crucible- New England and witches, accusations flying

I first heard of the subgenre Folk Horror when watching Mark Gatiss’s wonderful BBC series A History of Horror in 2010. Gatiss didn’t coin the term, but his series introduced me to this corner of the horror world. When you think Folk Horror I'd say the thing that comes to mind is The Unholy Trinity. Three British films made in the sixties and seventies which, while not linked by plot or character, share sensibilities we accept as Folk Horror: Witchfinder General, Blood on Sat

The unstoppable monster, the eerie shots of abandoned towns and shops, newspaper clippings screaming about the fall of humanity- at first glance there is a lot in A Quiet Place that we have seen before. Alien, Cloverfield, I Am Legend. What provides this film with a unique angle is that the monsters (while blind) have incredibly acute hearing- you make a sound that’s too loud and they’ll be on you in a matter of seconds. A Quiet Place follows the life of the Abbott family as