The Other Folk

Essays on #horror in film, art, music, & literature. Horror flash fiction, essays, & prose poems. Early access on Patreon:

[The Other Folk @other_folk]

Excited to announce our latest Fable for the Dying, a supernatural, folkloric, fishy revenge story from @shellyjansen! https://t.co/v2YoW96xKt

[The Other Folk @other_folk]

Our latest article explores The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, one of the first & most influential horror movies ever made, arguing that it's oft-misunderstood frame story reinforces the film's anti-authoritarian themes (even if it seems to do the opposite): https://t.co/bTh93EuKJn

[The Other Folk @other_folk]

Why didn't the girls in Yellowjackets just eat plants? Or go fishing?

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What monster cancelled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles after two seasons in 2008/2009? Whoever is responsible, may you find yourself at ground zero on Judgment Day

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Happy birthday, Bob Barker! Let us all take this day to remember to spay and neuter our pets https://t.co/wu7CTIOf5J

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The funniest and most horrific gag in Del Torro's Pinocchio is when the seagull lands on the naval mine and explodes

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How's is it that Roman Polanski made Rosemary's Baby and Repulsion, two films clearly aware of the evils of misogyny (presumably more too), and yet he is such an incredible misogynist POS?

[The Other Folk @other_folk]

@MiseryVulture You know, Hüsker Dü is the same way for me. In theory, I should be all about them. In practice, apart from a couple tracks on New Day Rising, they're just background noise to me

[The Other Folk @other_folk]

@JoshuaBegley1 @midnight_pals https://t.co/Aj1wYbMcis

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@MiseryVulture Not even their cover of "Fever"?

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@ChrisJHLambert Thanks for writing it! We're always happy when we find smart writing about horror movies that we can build off of. Cheers!

[The Other Folk @other_folk]

New artwork for our next Fable for the Dying! @shellyjansen's "Confessions of a Nixie" comes to our Patreon supporters Wednesday and becomes publicly available this Friday https://t.co/wDXISTF6Pb

[The Other Folk @other_folk]

@Gothfarts1 At its best (1st season), that show is a rare example of superhero media that's actually artful. At its worst (5th season), it gets up its own butt about how clever it is. Even then, though, it's still great

[The Other Folk @other_folk]

Every good vampire movie is highly stylized, surreal, and pervy as fuck.

The Reflecting Skin got me thinking this, but also Nosferatu, Nosferatu: The Vampyr, Only Lovers Left Alive, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Let the Right One In...

[The Other Folk @other_folk]

@MattJean105 I just don't like the term at all. No one says "elevated drama" or "elevated comedy"

[The Other Folk @other_folk]

Whoever coined the term "elevated horror" doesn't know what horror is. The foundation of the genre--taking people's real fears and turning them into allegories for overcoming or succumbing to personal and social flaws--is inherently artful. Even pulpy, trashy horror does this

[Zach Cregger @zcregger]

Why Horror Doesn't Need To Be Elevated https://t.co/wIsIxYcPWZ

[The Other Folk @other_folk]

@SpencerRider Yes, and the weekend before its release, I happened to be on a Bowie kick and had been listening to him and talking about him all week. That album struck me right off as a beautiful elegy. Then he died, and my reaction to his death was to feel weirdly at peace

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@lesliepwriter If it's under 1,500 words, we'd love to take a look https://t.co/RWqUEVzDCV

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@Gothfarts1 Meg and I finished rewatching The Sopranos 6-ish months ago, and I'm already like, "You know, maybe it's time for another rewatch?"

[The Other Folk @other_folk]

@meg_sipos and I were talking about Dario Argento's classic horror film Opera, and she accidentally said "Oprah," and now I can't stop thinking about a remake with the exact same plot, but on the set of the Oprah Winfrey Show

[The Other Folk @other_folk]

This is the most wholesome thing I will ever tweet. Going to wash my mouth out with human blood now

[The Other Folk @other_folk]

Sometimes I think about how every good parent wishes they could give their kids the world, and Stephen King has actually done that