Date: Tuesday, October 28 & November 4, 11, 18
Time: 7:00–8:00pm EST
Admission: $115 ( ($95 for Members — not a member yet?Join here to unlock all sorts of perks! )
This course will be conducted through Zoom, ensuring a convenient and interactive learning experience for everyone. Additionally, to accommodate the diverse schedules of our participants, all classes will be recorded. These recordings will be made available to all ticket holders, providing the flexibility to engage with the course material at your own pace.
One of the most beguiling and compelling subgenres of horror, Folk Horror has seen a resurgence in popularity recently thanks to films like Midsommar, Kill List, and The Witch. Folk Horror explores our uneasy relationship to the past, nature, and otherness through the use of paganism, magic, and deadly cults, usually set in bleak, rural landscapes. There is something strange and wrong happening out there, and we must be on guard.
In this class, we will explore the use of magic, the occult, and the rural Other to construct the dynamics of eeriness and weirdness in Folk Horror. We will look at real life practices and events that inspired various films, and examine how issues of class, race, and religious conservatism are dealt with thematically.
Sarah Lyons is a celebrated writer, witch, and filmmaker whose works and writing have appeared in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Vice, Buzzfeed, NewsWeek, Bust, Dazed, Signs Journal, The Last Podcast on the Left, and The Witch Wave Podcast. Her first book, Revolutionary Witchcraft was published in 2019 from Running Press (Hachette Book Group) and her second book, How to Study Magic was published in 2022 also from Running Press. She is also the author of The Coloring Tarot Guidebook (2023).
Sarah has appeared as a regular guest on the CW show Mysteries Decoded, and is a trusted expert on witchcraft and the occult, having appeared in, and consulted with, numerous documentary films on the subject. Her first feature film, The Woods, premiered at New York City Horror Film Festival, where one of the film's leads won the Best Actor award.
Date: Tuesday, October 28 & November 4, 11, 18
Time: 7:00–8:00pm EST
Admission: $115 ( ($95 for Members — not a member yet?Join here to unlock all sorts of perks! )
This course will be conducted through Zoom, ensuring a convenient and interactive learning experience for everyone. Additionally, to accommodate the diverse schedules of our participants, all classes will be recorded. These recordings will be made available to all ticket holders, providing the flexibility to engage with the course material at your own pace.
One of the most beguiling and compelling subgenres of horror, Folk Horror has seen a resurgence in popularity recently thanks to films like Midsommar, Kill List, and The Witch. Folk Horror explores our uneasy relationship to the past, nature, and otherness through the use of paganism, magic, and deadly cults, usually set in bleak, rural landscapes. There is something strange and wrong happening out there, and we must be on guard.
In this class, we will explore the use of magic, the occult, and the rural Other to construct the dynamics of eeriness and weirdness in Folk Horror. We will look at real life practices and events that inspired various films, and examine how issues of class, race, and religious conservatism are dealt with thematically.
Sarah Lyons is a celebrated writer, witch, and filmmaker whose works and writing have appeared in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Vice, Buzzfeed, NewsWeek, Bust, Dazed, Signs Journal, The Last Podcast on the Left, and The Witch Wave Podcast. Her first book, Revolutionary Witchcraft was published in 2019 from Running Press (Hachette Book Group) and her second book, How to Study Magic was published in 2022 also from Running Press. She is also the author of The Coloring Tarot Guidebook (2023).
Sarah has appeared as a regular guest on the CW show Mysteries Decoded, and is a trusted expert on witchcraft and the occult, having appeared in, and consulted with, numerous documentary films on the subject. Her first feature film, The Woods, premiered at New York City Horror Film Festival, where one of the film's leads won the Best Actor award.
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