{"id":516629,"date":"2023-01-15T07:59:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T07:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=516629"},"modified":"2023-01-25T06:14:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T06:14:24","slug":"from-enys-men-to-the-witch-what-s-behind-cinema-s-folk-horror-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/from-enys-men-to-the-witch-what-s-behind-cinema-s-folk-horror-boom","title":{"rendered":"From Enys Men to The Witch: What&#8217;s behind cinema&#8217;s folk horror boom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Enys Men &#8211; the much-anticipated new film written and directed by Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin, whose last feature, Bait (2019), earned him a Bafta for Outstanding Debut &#8211; a woman in walking boots, jeans, and a translucent red anorak trudges across gorsy moorland towards a cliff face. She clambers down, perches on a rocky outcrop, and stares intently at a few white flowers as they sway in the wind, high above clamorous waves below. Every day she studies these flowers. Then, every day she drops a rock into an abandoned tin mine&#8217;s inky depths, and stands listening for a distant thud. She returns to an isolated, ivy-covered cottage. A standing stone sticks out of the landscape like an ancient dagger-head. The woman pulls the cord of a power generator, makes a pot of tea, listens to the scratchy, indistinct noises of a radio communication device, and, in a logbook, records the date &#8211; April 1973 &#8211; and the words<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Enys Men &#8211; the much-anticipated new film written and directed by Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin, whose last feature, Bait (2019), earned him a Bafta for Outstanding Debut &#8211; a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}