Arts & Culture
Pagan Hauntology
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As we officially enter the Season of the Witch, The Wild Hunt welcomes Gavin Fox, who examines the ways Witches, Pagans, and other occult communities were depicted in documentaries of the 1970s through 90s.
Arts & Culture
Classics of Pagan Cinema: The Blood on Satan’s Claw
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There are those who say a witch is born and others who insist a witch is made. This film suggests a third option: that witchcraft can come upon a person as unbidden and inevitable as puberty, and as impossible to understand.
Arts & Culture
Classics of Pagan Cinema: The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
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Many have wondered if this strange piece of folk horror even existed, or if it was a mass hallucination, another iteration of the Mandela Effect. Not so, says Meg Elison in this review of 1978’s “Dark Secret of Harvest Home” – it’s quite real, and a transgressive delight for Pagan audiences.
Arts & Culture
Classics of Pagan Cinema: The Wicker Man
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Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott takes a look at the new 50th-anniversary release of The Wicker Man and shares new perspective of the classic folk horror film.
Arts & Culture
Classics of Pagan Cinema: Eye of the Devil
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“Am I seeking, or am I being sought?” Meg Elison reviews J. Lee Thompson’s EYE OF THE DEVIL (1966), a classic of pagan horror that revolves around the myth of the Sacred King.