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This chapter discusses the threat of fungal infection implicit in the U.K.’s “Unholy Trinity” of the folk horror films Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves, 1968), The Blood on Satan's Claw (Piers Haggard, 1971), and The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973). Underneath the fields, forests, farmlands, flowerbeds, foothills, and other naturalistic spaces in these films, invisible agents of decay, dystrophy, and disintegration flourish, taking on the equally contagious forms of demonic influence or religious mania. The treacherous Christian, neopagan, and satanist fanatics in the “Unholy Trinity,” in other words, serve as the objective correlatives of such easily spreadable fungal diseases as mucormycosis, sporotrichosis, and aspergillosis, all of which coincidentally thrive in rural regions. 

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“Some Things in Their Most Natural State Have the Most Vivid Colors”: Folk Horror and Fungal Overgrowth in the “Unholy Trinity”

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    2025年

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  • Larrie Dudenhoeffer

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This chapter discusses the threat of fungal infection implicit in the U.K.’s “Unholy Trinity” of the folk horror films Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves, 1968), The Blood on Satan's Claw (Piers Haggard, 1971), and The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973). Underneath the fields, forests, farmlands, flowerbeds, foothills, and other naturalistic spaces in these films, invisible agents of decay, dystrophy, and disintegration flourish, taking on the equally contagious forms of demonic influence or religious mania. The treacherous Christian, neopagan, and satanist fanatics in the “Unholy Trinity,” in other words, serve as the objective correlatives of such easily spreadable fungal diseases as mucormycosis, sporotrichosis, and aspergillosis, all of which coincidentally thrive in rural regions.