In The Earth

Podcast: FolknHell · Andrew Davidson, Dave Houghton, David Hall

Opublikowano: 2026-04-02

In this episode of FolknHell, we head into the fungal murk of In the Earth (2021), Ben Wheatley’s strange, abrasive, hallucinatory pandemic folk horror, where science, ritual, sound and landscape all start speaking the same unnerving language. What begins as a journey into the woods to assist with isolated research soon curdles into something far weirder: standing stones, old lore, mycelial networks, mutilation, feverish experiments, and the creeping suspicion that the land is not just alive, but listening. We dig into whether In the Earth is truly folk horror or something even stranger: a modern eco-mystical ni...