Day: November 12, 2024

SEVERIN BOX SET RELEASE: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror Vol. 2: Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit (1968)

Also known as Ghost Cat of the Cursed Pond, this explains what happens when Nabeshima Naoshige murders Ryuzoji Takafusa in an attempt to get his land, his power and his wife Lady Takafusa, who would rather drown herself and her cat familiar in a swamp than suffer underneath this man. Also: Takafusa is killed by […]

SEVERIN BOX SET RELEASE: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror Vol. 2: Scales (2019)

On an island in the middle of the ocean, the fishermen ensure that everyone has enough to eat by giving the gods their daughters, throwing them into the sea. All of them do this except for Muthana (Al Farhan), who saves Hayat (Hajjar), making her an outcast. Twelve years later, as her mother becomes pregnant […]

SEVERIN BOX SET RELEASE: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror Vol. 2: Io Island (1977)

Kim Ki-young made horror films after studying to be a dentist and making propaganda movies. His 1960 movie, The Housemaid, is considered to be one of the best Korean films ever. Today, filmmakers like Im Sang-soo, Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook proclaim his films like Woman of Fire, Insect Woman, Woman Chasing the Butterfly of Death and this movie. […]

SEVERIN BOX SET RELEASE: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror Vol. 2: Born of Fire (1987)

I’ve often discussed waiting to see a movie until the time is perfect. That’s what I had done with this film, a movie in which musician Paul Bergson (Peter Firth) searches for the Master Flautist (Orla Pederson), a supernatural creature who is planning to destroy our planet. Directed by Jamil Dehlavi, this was amazingly released […]

SEVERIN BOX SET RELEASE: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror Vol. 2: Edge of the Knife (2018)

Haida is the language of the Haida people, which is spoken only in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of Canada and on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska. This endangered language, which once had 15,000 speakers, has just 24 today. Today, nearly all Haida people use English, but there are efforts to revitalize […]

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