https://vo.rs/tags/genre-theory/Latest from the Genre Theory desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/why-every-decade-rediscovers-folk-horror/<p>Folk horror is the genre that will not stay in the past, which is fitting for a genre entirely about the past refusing to stay buried. It surfaces in waves — a cluster of films in the early 1970s, a long quiet, then a full-blown revival in the 2010s that has not yet run out — and each wave arrives at a moment when the modern world feels thin and the old ground underneath it starts showing through. The recurrence is the interesting thing. Slashers and zombies boom and bust on fashion; folk horror comes back on a <em>cycle</em>, and the cycle tracks something real about the times that summon it.</p>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0000