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The Blood on Satan's Claw (Paperback)
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The Blood on Satan's Claw (Paperback)
Series: Devil's Advocates
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Widely regarded as one of the foundational 'Unholy Trinity' of folk
horror film, The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) has been
comparatively over-shadowed, if not maligned, when compared to
Witchfinder General (1968) and The Wicker Man (1973). While those
horror bedfellows are now accepted as classics of British cinema,
Piers Haggard's film remains undervalued, ironically so, given that
it was Haggard who coined the term 'folk horror' in relation to his
film. In this Devil's Advocate, David Evans-Powell explores the
place of the film in the wider context of the folk horror
sub-genre; its use of a seventeenth-century setting (which it
shares with contemporaries such as Witchfinder General and Cry of
the Banshee) in contrast to the generic nineteenth-century locales
of Hammer; the influences of contemporary counter-culture and youth
movement on the film; the importance of localism and landscape; and
the film as an expression of a wider contemporary crisis in English
identity (which can also be perceived in Witchfinder General, and
in contemporary TV serials such as Penda's Fen).
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