Folksy: A Folk Horror Movie Podcast

Melinda and Lea deep dive into the oral history of Irish folklore and their shared love of finally getting to Shamalan all over the pod with this months episode discussing the 2024 film, The Watchers. Are birds superior horror companions? Was Signs a good movie? Will Melinda ever learn how to pronounce an Irish name correctly? Leave your wings and glitter at home, and let's get folksy!

We're off to Louisiana this month discussing the 1997 classic Southern Gothic film Eve's Bayou. Join Melinda and Lea as they talk about the intertwinings between the southern gothic and folk horror genre, bond over their shared adoration of Kasi Lemmons, and talk smack about quarantines. Are you ready for a little Black Girl Magic? Let's get Folksy, y'all! 🖤👧🏿✨

Back from the holiday hiatus Melinda and Lea dive into the pond of Frogman, the 2023 cryptid themed independent folk horror film. This month we're talking cryptozoology , ufos, ghosts, and what makes a creature based folk horror story. Lea is skeptical, but Melinda wants to believe. Ribbit ribbit y'all, lets get folksy!

This episode has everything. Viet Nam, Howard P Lovecraft ripping, and some suspicious looking sausage. This week Lea and Melinda discuss Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and its 50 year influence in American folk horror history. Are you ready to become and accidental member of the Leatherface Apologist Society? Let's get Folksy, y'all!

Welcome to season two, where Victorian woman of the valley Lea Johns officially joins Melinda as co-host of Folksy! Hand picked by Ms Johns herself, this week we are discussing Oracle (2023), and the venn diagram of Southern Gothic horror and Folk Horror. Curl up in your favorite rocking chair, but beware the land it may be settled upon. Welcome back, and let's get Folksy y'all!

Like a warm pot of bubbling stew, this episode is sure to titillate as the campfire is graced by queer artist and director Sam Wineman (@samwineman) to discuss one of Melinda's favorite films, Ravenous!  Have you ever wanted to learn more about the queer lens of film? How about attend an accidental TED talk on cannibalism? Join us as we talk about the importance of great bad cinema, celebrati...

On a very special episode of Folksy writer/director Teresa Sutherland has appeared to have gotten lost in our woods! She's taken to the campfire to talk about crafting her latest folk horror film, Lovely, Dark and Deep.  Come sink into the dirt with us as we discuss the art of storytelling with truthful intention, shooting a movie in Portugal, and how one can find their way to folk horror wit...

Lea Johns (@whatsleamaking) is back again to discuss Nia DaCosta's Candyman in our second installation of cul-de-sac folk horror this month.  Join us as we talk about the history of the history of this most modern remake, how it plays into the modern folk horror revival, and why it's more important than ever to say his name.  Grab your mirrors, it's time to get folksy y'all! 🪝🍬🐝

We've re-emerged from the snowy blanket encompassing our wooded realm! Comic book and prose writer Amy Chase (@amythunderjam) lends the musings of her beautiful human mind as we descend into the bowels of Conneticut for our very first cul-de-sac folk horror film, The Stepford Wives (1975).  Y'all we're talking everything, from the ancient origins of robotics to the evolution of AI in art and...

Is it even Christmas without a creepy puppet show? Break out the eddgnog and push your least favorite child in front of you as comedian/actress Anastasia Washington (@anastasiawash) and I dig in to the 2015 folk horror/comedy, Krampus!  Enjoy our last episode of 2023, and don't forget to keep you holidays a little folksy. ⛓️ 😈 🔔

Heads will roll! This episode filmmaker and stuntman Aaron Field joins us to discuss David Lowery's The Green Knight. It's not Christmas without a few games, jests, and wishes to be a little blonde boy running around in a blanket.  Don't wait for one year hense, tis the season to get folksy! 🦊 🔥 👑

 Doest thou ever desire to know how a film is put together? How a good scare is made? This episode Melinda is joined by the incredible horror film editor Alexandra Amick (@alex__amick) to discuss one of the most talked about folk horror films of the past decade, The VVitch. Wouldst thou like to join us and get folksy? 👗🧈 🐐

The mis-genre is real! In this episode we are joined by Soviet cinema TikTok aficionado Mashka Wolfe who gives me a run for my conceptual money asking the tough questions about Oren Peli's "Chernobyl Diaries." How does the government and man-made disaster play into folkloric discussion? How does the Chernobyl experience still effect people today? Is this actually a folk horror film or do I just ha...

Are you SO scared? This week we have actor/directrix Cassie Keet around the campfire to discuss the pivitol American folk horror film, "The Blair Witch Project."  Cozy up as we talk about oral storytelling and social media at the dawn of the internet, the very real fear of getting lost in the woods, and the perils of low budget horror movie making. Grab your camera and shake it all around, we...

In this episode of Folksy, host Melinda-Catherine Gross is joined by culinary blogger and food photographer Lea Johns (@whatsleamaking) to discuss the 2022 film "The Menu" and capitalism as religion in modern folklore.  Let's get fancy, let's get hungry, let's get folksy!  🚬🔪 🍔

Welcome to the first episode of Folksy: A Folk Horror Film Podcast!