At Cannes, one can expect major works from internationally famous auteurs. Oscar hopefuls vie for spots on the TIFF lineup. My colleague A.A. Dowd gave his definition of a “Sundance movie”—basically, ...

Robin Hardy recalls the wild humour, pagan folklore and studio battles that shaped The Wicker Man into one of British ...

A lot of horror movies are inspired by paganism in some way. One horror movie took things a step further by inventing a new pagan god. The film reinforced a lot of widespread perceptions of ancient ...

John Nicol as The Burry Man, George Topping and Steven Cannon as Attendants at South Queensferry, Edinburgh, Scotland (© 2015 Henry Bourne) (all images courtesy Thames & Hudson) Over a thousand years ...

"We struck an oath. Why has she abandoned the words." Vertical Entertainment has revealed an official US trailer for an indie horror film from Canada titled Jikirag, the feature directorial debut of ...

Midsommar probably won't encourage folks to book tickets for a Swedish vacation anytime soon. What Ari Aster's new folk-horror film might do, however, is spark some curiosity as to the film's ...

American filmmaker Ari Aster isn’t expecting a thank you note from the Swedish tourism board any time soon. He’s thrown the nation’s favorite summer holiday off a cliff, delivered a hammer blow and ...

The back-to-the-land aesthetic of peasant skirts, head scarves, and florals always seems to seep into fashion at this time of year—but a distinctly folk vibe is now taking over interiors too.

An image of what could be Stonehenge appears inside the back cover of the booklet coming with Sumer Is Icumen In – The Pagan Sound Of British & Irish Folk 1966–1975. Inside its front cover, a similar ...