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Invented Traditions

By: Carl Neville

Ben Wheatley’s 'In the Earth' uses the contemporary setting of the pandemic to play with some increasingly familiar imagery of folk horror and hauntology.

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Over the past decade or so Ben Wheatley has beaten a determinedly independent and low-budget path. His work amalgamates two main and ostensibly incompatible traditions in British cinema: the school of social realism exemplified by the likes of Ken Loach and the rich tradition of British horror produced by studios such as Hammer and Amicus. […]

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Over the past decade or so Ben Wheatley has beaten a determinedly independent and low-budget path. His work amalgamates two main and ostensibly incompatible traditions in British cinema: the school of social realism exemplified by the likes of Ken Loach and the rich tradition of British horror produced by studios such as Hammer and Amicus. […]

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Over the past decade or so Ben Wheatley has beaten a determinedly independent and low-budget path. His work amalgamates two main and ostensibly incompatible traditions in British cinema: the school of social realism exemplified by the likes of Ken Loach and the rich tradition of British horror produced by studios such as Hammer and Amicus. […]

Over the past decade or so Ben Wheatley has beaten a determinedly independent and low-budget path. His work amalgamates two main and ostensibly incompatible traditions in British cinema: the school of social realism exemplified by the likes of Ken Loach and the rich tradition of British horror produced by studios such as Hammer and Amicus. […]

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