“‘Starve Acre’: Matt Smith’s Grave Discoveries”

“If you or I casually gouged a hole in the ground and found an ancient artifact within that veritably seethes with malevolence, we’d probably backfill the damned thing posthaste and haul ass to civilization. The average folk horror protagonist doesn’t have quite that much wisdom, but they at least know to stop shoveling when they unearth bad news: Think A Field in England, Rawhead Rex, Blood on Satan’s Claw, The Lair of the White Worm, Sennentunschi, Black Sunday, or Mother of Tears. Happily, few folk horror characters have the psychology required to keep at it with pickaxes, trowels, and brushes once they hit the wicked motherlode.” (Full feature available at Fangoria.)

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