Folk horror stories are about what is lurking below the surface in England.
Cornwall is what’s lurking below the surface.
Mark Jenkin - The Land Demands Blood
Project Summary
The Land Demands Blood: Hammer Horror and the Legacy of Cornish Gothic
(1×39’ Documentary, 2026)
Format: Documentary / Genre: Horror / Comps: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, The Last Sacrifice
Director: Ryan Mackfall. Writer/Producer: Kingsley Marshall. Editor: Jake Potter.
Synopsis
Water, woods, rock, and drifted stream. Storms overhead, fields of salt water, wicked moor. Lightning strokes and standing stones, ground hard as iron and oak, granite swallowing tin and slate. This documentary special feature examines Hammer’s use of Cornwall as a setting and location for its films, exploring the “new weird Britain” of contemporary Cornish folk horror with filmmakers, playwrights, and historians.
