Eyes of Fire

Colonial folklore jam that turns into a surreal dreadmare fable with naked mud ghosts, evil tree demons, decapitated cow heads with blood tears, and a richly dense atmosphere that’s 100% my kind of folk horror magic. This is a lost classic in my eyes, filled with images I…

Ian West

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Justin LaLiberty

This had my eyes on fire. I felt like I was watching a National Film Board documentary in it's style only to have the rug swept from under me with this one. So clearly this folk horror that deals in many realms of the magical cultural tales has it's interest in…

pirateneckbeard

I vividly remember this VHS cover from my days working at the video store, but it never drew me in enough to make me watch it. There was always something else I would pick instead like renting Night of the Demons 2 again or something. So I’m thrilled that Shudder’s new…

Tony the Terror

"The Witch" odd Pentecostal cousin. Indeed, this folk horror film is so bizarre, nearly incomprehensible, and twisted that's almost impossible to take your eyes off the screen, particularly in the second half when tree people or whatever start drinking right from a cow's…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

Who needs the Lord’s guiding light when you have a manic dryad dream girl in your party of pilgrims?

CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️

Eyes of Fire? More like brains on fire! A film that sneaks up on you, slowly engulfing you in it's whimsical world of wacky wonder. What starts as your typical folk horror film slowly unravels it's conventional exterior to unleash the mystifying madness lurking within. A…

belial_carboni

Once Nicole pointed out that a young Rob Paulsen was in this I kept waiting for him to talk so I could imagine Yakko Warner as a doomed frontiersman. Not only did he not have enough lines for me to do that but there were many, many shots of him looking like he was about to…

Branson Reese

The horror of nature is burned into the narrative of Eyes of Fire - it's the epitome of folk horror, as we follow an ignorant bunch of people that fail to heed the warning of the native Indians and try to set up house in the land of the spirits. The film is a real slow burn…

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