{"podcast":{"title":"FolknHell","slug":"folknhell-7405500","podcast_index_feed_id":7405500,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/686d2a6a37e3cb9d349cb1d7","website_url":"https://www.folknhell.com/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/686d2a6a37e3cb9d349cb1d7/1773565308006-12534475-9a2b-47fa-861b-f3902e05b0a0.jpeg","author":"David Hall","episode_count":25,"summary":"FolknHell is the camp-fire you shouldn’t have wandered up to: a loud, spoiler-packed podcast where three unapologetic cine-goblins – host Andy Davidson and his horror-hungry pals David Hall & Dave Houghton, decide two things about every movie they watch: 1, is it folk-horror, and 2, is it worth your precious, blood-pumping time. Armed with nothing but “three mates, a microphone, and an unholy amount of spoilers” Intro-transcript the trio torch-walk through obscure European oddities, cult favourites and fresh nightmares you’ve never heard of, unpacking the myths, the monsters and the madness along the way. Their rule-of-three definition keeps every discussion razor-sharp: the threat must menace an isolated community, sprout from the land itself, and echo older, folkloric times. Each episode opens with a brisk plot rundown and spoiler warning, then erupts into forensic myth-picking, sound-design geekery and good-natured bickering before the lads slap down a score out of 30 (“the adding up is the hard part!\") FolknHell is equal parts academic curiosity and pub-table cackling; you’ll learn about pan-European harvest demons and still snort ale through your nose. Dodging the obvious, an…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-11T22:18:25.618351+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/folknhell-7405500"},"episode":{"title":"Bring Her Back","slug":"bring-her-back","published_at":"2026-02-19T11:06:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/folknhell-7405500/bring-her-back","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/folknhell-7405500","url":"https://folknhell.com","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/686d2a6a37e3cb9d349cb1d7/e/698bb69d337b2a3b2e2c86ef/media.mp3","summary":"Grief turns feral, rituals turn bloody and nobody should watch this one alone. Bring Her Back drags folk horror into the present and bites hard. Bring Her Back unsettled us in a way that crept under the skin and refused to leave. This is not a jump scare merchant or a knowing wink horror. It is dread soaked, body horror heavy and emotionally cruel in exactly the right way. From the off, the film announces itself as something viciously controlled. A pair of recently orphaned siblings are placed into foster care with Laura, a softly spoken grief counsellor whose kindness curdles almost immediately. What follows is a slow tightening of the vice. Laura’s home is calm, ordered and deeply wrong. Her behaviour is precise, manipulative and chillingly plausible. As one of us put it, you feel gaslit alongside the characters . The horror is not just what happens, but how long it takes others to believe something is wrong. The film’s use of Piper’s blindness is handled with rare restraint. There are no cheap perspective tricks, no exploitative visuals. Instead, vulnerability becomes tension. We know something she does not and that knowledge becomes unbearable. When violence arrives, it does so brutally and without relief. Several scenes had us pausing the film, not out of boredom but self-preservation. Folk horror debate was inevitable. There is no village, no harvest festival, no ancient stones humming in a field. But there is ritual. There is tradition. There is an old belief system dragged into the present via grainy VHS tapes and desperate repetition. The cult is fragmented, the community absent, yet the ritual remains intact. That, for us, was enough. Sally Hawkins is extraordinary. Her performance balances warmth and monstrosity so well that you almost understand her until y…","meta_description":"Grief turns feral, rituals turn bloody and nobody should watch this one alone. Bring Her Back drags folk horror into the present and bites hard. Bring Her…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2469,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/folknhell-7405500/episodes/bring-her-back/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/folknhell-7405500/bring-her-back.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}