Review: a folk horror film set in a hay field
Content note: slow dread, one disturbing scene in a barn, very little blood. It is more unsettling than frightening.
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A short story from the local archive, with what the paper printed, what it left out and what we found when we went to see the bell.
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The first night I wrote up properly. Eight hours in an empty mill, with every minute in the log.
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Six hours in an empty house on the edge of town, beside the stairs and the old stove. Most of the noise had a plug.
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