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->"If we're gonna get into subgenres, the subgenre here is folk horror. [...] It's the horror of rural England. It's certain kinds of churches, certain kinds of forest – the shadows within dark green."
-->-- '''Creator/AlexGarland''' regarding ''Film/{{Men}}''
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->"Unlike tales of bodysnatching aliens or hellraising demons, the charm of folk horror is that it sidles up to the ''almost'' believable. Our suspension of disbelief is extended further than usual with historic settings, real locations and the universal terror of isolation and uncontrolled nature. Well-written folk horror bridges the gap between myth and modernity with eerie familiarity: It could, or did, happen here."
-->-- '''Liz Braswell''', [[https://www.wsj.com/articles/science-fiction-fantasy-book-review-folk-horrors-subtle-chills-lute-gathering-dark-11666971245 "Science Fiction & Fantasy: Folk Horror's Subtle Chills"]]
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-->-- '''Creator/AlexGarland''' regarding "Film/{{Men}}''

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->"I grew up on a farm and it's natural for me to use the countryside as symbols or as imagery. As this was a story about people subject to superstitions about living in the woods, the dark poetry of that appealed to me. I was trying to make a folk-horror film, I suppose."
-->-- '''Piers Haggard''' regarding ''Film/TheBloodOnSatansClaw''

->"If we're gonna get into subgenres, the subgenre here is folk horror. [...] It's the horror of rural England. It's certain kinds of churches, certain kinds of forest – the shadows within dark green."
-->-- '''Creator/AlexGarland''' regarding "Film/{{Men}}''
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