Back in 2021, writer-director Kier-La Janisse released
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, a great 3-hours-(and-14-minutes)-long documentary about witchcraft and mysticism around the world, especially as seen in films. That documentary didn't just get a special release on Blu-ray, it basically got
THE MOST SPECIAL release on Blu-ray: a magnificent boxset with not just the documentary, but also 19 other films about folk magic, and tons and tons of extras. All curated by Kier-La herself. It was called
All The Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror, won "Best Boxset" awards all over the place for being awesome, and I called it
"Objectively speaking, the best boxset of the year..." in my 2021 overview.
Well, guess what? Last year she was back with a second boxset on the subject, called
All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror Vol. 2. Again it won best-of-year prizes, again I had to call it out
in my yearly overview (this time for 2024). I wrote:
"...the films and documentaries in this set are fantastic, with extras to sacrifice livestock for... "
Ehm... I also wrote that it would need a Pretty Packaging article, then promptly forgot to write one... until now. So, without further ado (better late than never): here is a gallery of shots! Click on the edge of the pictures to scroll through them, or at the center of each to see a bigger version.