Last year, we supersized the season, expanding our celebration to 61 days, and this year, we’re going even bigger by bringing Shudder members an unbeatable lineup of new original series and exclusive movie premieres every week, along with new specials and timeless horror favorites, starting September 1. “Shudder is the ultimate destination for horror all year long, but every Halloween, we try to outdo ourselves. SHUDDER SERVES UP ITS BIGGEST, MOST AMBITIOUS LINEUP WITH “61 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN” BEGINNING TODAY THROUGH OCTOBER 31: "The “most wonderful time of the year” for Shudder kicks off today with its “61 Days of Halloween” annual event, featuring a slate of weekly new movie premieres and original series debuts, a new Halloween special with Joe Bob Briggs (and more specials to be announced), horror film favorite added to the Shudder library from Brian De Palma’s Carrie to Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist, a new edition of Shudder’s beloved “Ghoul Log,” a 24/7 streaming jack-o’-lantern, and the return of Shudder’s Halloween Hotline, where members can receive live, personalized movie recommendations from Shudder’s head curator Samuel Zimmerman. Pre-Order link for All the Haunts Be Ours: shop/folk-horror-box/ Pre-Order link for Woodlands Blu-Ray: shop/wdadb-blu/ This announcement of the film’s digital debut follows the already announced home video release of the film, as well as the massive box set All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (also produced and curated by Janisse). Touching on over 100 films and featuring over 50 interviewees, WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED investigates the many ways that we alternately celebrate, conceal and manipulate our own histories in an attempt to find spiritual resonance in our surroundings.
WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films - Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968), Piers Haggard's Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man (1973) - through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European horror, to the genre's revival over the last decade.
The film will continue to play festival dates and theatrical bookings throughout Autumn. SEVERIN FILMS REVEALS TRAILER AND VOD RELEASE DATE FOR KIER-LA JANISSE’S AWARD-WINNING FESTIVAL HIT WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR: "Severin Films is proud to finally bring the debut feature film from Kier-La Janisse (author of “House of Psychotic Women”) to VOD platforms on October 26th, just in time for Halloween.
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