https://vo.rs/tags/midsommar/Latest from the Midsommar desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Fri, 08 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/folk-horrors-long-road-from-the-wicker-man-to-midsommar/<p>Folk horror is the genre that grows in the gaps of a map. Its terror is a place rather than a monster or a killer: a village, an island, a field, somewhere the modern world has thinned out and something older has kept its footing. The films that belong to it share a shape you can feel before you can name it, a sense of the pastoral gone wrong, of a landscape that is watching, of communities practising a faith the visitor mistook for quaintness until it closed over his head. The road from <em>The Wicker Man</em> in 1973 to <em>Midsommar</em> in 2019 is nearly half a century long, and it runs through a dormancy so complete that the term itself had to be reinvented, but the shape survives the whole journey intact.</p>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000