I am honored to have contributed an essay to this standout collection of essays, Folk Horror on Film: Return of the British Repressed, edited by Kevin J. Donnelly and Louis Bayman, published by Manchester University Press in late 2023.

In this chapter, I explore how 1972’s film, Doomwatch (directed by Peter Sasdy), stands as an important entry in the folk horror tradition – and how it may well have influenced the better-known and canonical folk horror film, The Wicker Man (1973).