Krampus special! Interview Part 2 with Al Ridenhour, author of 'Krampus and the Old Dark Christmas'. We discuss his book ann the nature of the folklore and customs surrounding 'The Christmas devil'.
You can get this fantastic book here:
https://feralhouse.com/the-krampus/
You can also listen to Al's podcast Bone and Sickle for dark folklore, history and horror.
https://www.boneandsickle.com/
You can listen to Part 1 of the DreamSwarm interview with Al in our previous episode here:
https://dreamswarm-podcast.castos.com/episodes/folklore-history-horror-bone-and-sickle
We are joined by the brilliant Sian Esther Powell, host of the Celtic Myths & Legends podcast for a great discussion on folklore, language and culture from Cornwall and Wales. Introduction to the Celtic Nations Celtic Myths & Legends podcast The Cornish language Similarities between Wlesh and Cornish folkore and culture You can listen to the Celtic Myths & Legends podcast here https:/celticmythspodcast.com/ You can follow Sian on twitter here https://twitter.com/SianEsther ...
Interview with writer-director Aurora Fearnley about her sci-fi and folk horror films and what genre filmmaking can teach us about life's big questions: Sci- Fi and folk horror films Folk Horror, Human Nature and Othering The appeal of genre filmmaking You can see Aurora's short film 'Pulsar' here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eueQHsthSdU Follow Aurora @AuroraFearnley ...
We're joined by director George Popov of Rubicon Films to discuss his recent folk horror indie films 'Hex' and 'The Droving' and we learn all about 'Sideworld', his new series of folklore and folk horror documentaries. 'Hex' folk horror indie film 'The Droving' folk horror thriller set in the Lake District 'Sideworld' new folk horror documentary series Exploring haunted forests of England Why the switch to the documentary format? Watch 'Sideworld: Haunted Forests of England' here: Watch Sideworld online Watch 'Hex' here: Hex film Watch 'The Droving' here The Droving film Or watch on Youtube The Droving on Youtube Follow Rubicon films on twitter https://twitter.com/RubiconFilmsUK Or their website https://www.rubiconfilms.co.uk/ ...