An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British television in the seventies and its many manifestations, culturally specific, in other countries; to its resurgence in the last decade.
Lawrence Gordon Clark (born 15 June 1938) is an English television director and producer. He is best known for "A Ghost Story for Christmas", which was a series of telefilm adaptations of (mostly) M.R. James ghost stories, broadcast annually by the BBC throughout the 1970s.