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Crossroads: A US Folk Horror Zine
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Inaugural issue coming March 2026. Details and subscription: https://crossroadsfolkhorror.my.canva.site/

Edited by @scaryasfolk.bsky.social and @theharvestmaid.bsky.social.
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Next Friday at 9pm EST, our winter theme continues with THE WHITE REINDEER (1952), the classic Finnish film. Free to stream on Tubi.

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Poster, a collage of images showing people in traditional Finnish clothing in a snowy landscape
December 6, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Tonight! Celebrate another #FolkHorrorFriday with LAMB! The movie is available to stream for free on Tubi. We start at 9pm EST.
Poster showing a dark haired woman standing in a glacial landscape while cradling a lamb in her arms
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Tubi seems to have removed The Blackcoat's Daughter, so tomorrow we will be watching LAMB (2021) instead. I'm so bummed! We were all looking forward to some Oz Perkins goodness.

But LAMB will also be an interesting one to talk about for #FolkHorrorFriday
Poster: A woman stands against an Icelandic lanscape, cradling a lamb in her arms
December 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Tomorrow night! Gather 'round the dinner table and spend some quality time with family for TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974).

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Leatherface and family sitting down to a nice dinner
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Just two more days until CLEARCUT for #FolkHorrorFriday. Two words: Graham Motherfucking Greene. That's three words, you say? Whatever, join us at 9pm ET on Tubi.
Poster for Clearcut. An Indigenous man holds a shotgun beneath the tagline "The Violence Has Begun"
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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I was a bit off, but anyway. From the great @parthenoid.bsky.social

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Margaret (Michele Dotrice), in repeated closeup, is among those watching, and there is no doubt what she's doing. And if I'm going to mention Betty from Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em knocking one out while Zoe from Doctor Who gets raped and murdered, we come to the thing that I cannot, cannot get past, and that is how exploitative this film is.
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Worth it for the illustrations by @slipperyjack.bsky.social alone. The book is good too!

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Red cover of Blood on Satan's Claw aka The Devil's Skin. Mostly red cover with medieval style black font and a black and white woodcut print of a skull and skeletal claw lying in the dirt
November 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Also, if you joined us for PSYCHOMANIA a couple of weeks back, you'll see a familiar face tonight.

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A guy with long shaggy red hair wearing a black leather motorcycle jacket
November 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Next week, we're going with a British folk horror classic, BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW. Join us Friday at 9pm ET. The movie is free to stream on Tubi.

(Trigger warning: rape)

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Black, red, and white poster of a dark, demonic figure embracing a naked young woman.
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Tonight! For #FolkHorrorFriday we will be watching the 2019 Guatemalan film LA LLORONA! The movie is free to stream on Tubi. Please join us at 9pm ET and post along using the hashtag.
Poster for La Llorona showing a mysterious shrouded figure
November 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Thanks to everyone who joined #FolkHorrorFriday. You are the ones who make my Fridays amazing.

Next Friday is Halloween, but if you're around, we're doing PSYCHOMANIA--the greatest film ever. You know the drill. Streaming free on Tubi, 9pm ET.
A skull wearing a motorcycle helmet and chunky white framed glasses
October 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Trent Reznor saying "We're here to have a bad time."
October 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Next up for #FolkHorrorFriday: LAKE MUNGO (2008), a spectacularly eerie Australian mockumentary for the week before Halloween!

Join us Friday, October 24, at 9pm EST. Available for free on Tubi.
Poster: A black and white close-up of a young woman's face, grainy like vhs footage
October 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Thanks for joining this week's #FolkHorrorFriday

Next week, we're going back to America with JUG FACE (2013).

Join us Friday, October 17, at 9pm on Tubi!
Poster for Jug Face. A black and green photograph of a young woman in a rustic dress holding a ceramic figure of a human head. Her eyes are pure white
October 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Kaylee from the "Shindig" episode of Firefly wearing a pink dress of tiered pink ruffles
October 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Look at that poster!
A black, white, and sepia portrait of a man in a black coat and tie. Where his eyes should be are two sets of teeth and fangs
October 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Up next: a change of pace for Crossroads! We're going with some British found footage folk horror to kick off the Halloween season with a really creepy choice: BORDERLANDS (2013), U.S. title: FINAL PRAYER.

Join us next Friday at 9pm ET on Tubi for #FolkHorrorFriday
Poster for The Borderlands. A black and white rendering of an old church but the image is warped and fractured Poster for Final Prayer. An image of cubes made from parts of an old stone church stacked in the shape of a cross.
September 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Another day, another inspiration behind CROSSROADS.

HWAET! is a folklore/folk horror zine out of Britain, but where HELLEBORE has a slightly more academic vibe, HWAET! is more playful, featuring music reviews, playlists, and bingo cards. The brainchild of George Parr and Bunty May Marshall.
The cover of Hwaet! featuring a green illustration of the Green Man against a black background.
September 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Announcing this week's #FolkHorrorFriday watch: THE WIND (2018). We're going with something more contemporary but still undeniably American, a film about white settlers facing something menacing on the prairie.
Poster for The Wind. A woman stands in the doorway of a house looking out at the night. There are claw marks on the doorframe.
September 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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The equinox has me thinking about gratitude, so today, I'd like to share one of the inspirations behind CROSSROADS.

Most of you probably already know about HELLEBORE, a zine from the UK about folk horror and folk lore.
A photograph of a bookshelf displaying several copies of Hellebore zine, a black-covered journal with monochromatic artwork.
September 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Join us for #FolkHorrorFriday at 9pm ET as we watch THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN (1971). American movies really took to satanic cults rather than pagan ones, yet many of the same themes and tropes are there.
Poster for The Brotherhood of Satan. A very red painting of a stern man glaring menacingly at some innocent children.
September 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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As brutal as the depiction of the first attack is, the reality was somehow worse

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The girl, Mary Jeanne Larey (portrayed as "Linda Mae Jenkins") was told to run. She was then chased down and sexually assaulted with the attacker's gun. She soon escaped and received help at a house.'
September 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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The poster artwork is quite striking, so it's no surprise the artist did some other iconic film posters:

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The film's poster art was painted with acrylic by graphic illustrator Ralph McQuarrie, then an unknown. McQuarrie had painted the poster for Pierce's The Legend of Boggy Creek, then later for his films Bootleggers (1974), Winterhawk (1975), and Winds of Autumn (1976). McQuarrie became recognized for his talent and went on to paint posters for Creature from Black Lake (1976), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Battlestar Galactica (1978), Back to the Future (1985), and the original Star Wars trilogy. His concept art was used to help convince 20th Century Fox to fund Star Wars.
September 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Gearing up for tonight's #FolkHorrorFriday watch, THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN (1976) with some Wikipedia facts.
The film was mostly shot around Texarkana, and a number of locals were cast as extras. The world premiere was held in Texarkana on December 17, 1976, before its regular run in theaters on December
September 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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A little late announcing this week's #FolkHorrorFriday, but we are continuing this month's theme of off-the-beaten-path folk horror (and folk adjacent) American movies from the 1970s with THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN (1976), loosely based on a series of real-life murders in Texarkana.
Poster for the Town That Dreaded Sundown showing a man in a white fabric hood looking over a town at sunset
September 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM