Rowan & Pine: A Spooky Folklore & Mythology Podcast
Oct 30, 2026 · 49 min · 15 segments
This is a preview of our Patreon offering for October! Niamh's husband and past guest, Ewan, has selected 3 movies to pair with Rowan and Pine past topics. We are calling it Threehouse of Horror (pls…
The first movie I'm going to begin with is the most obscure one.
I've been watching movies passionately for most of my life.
And every now and again, a movie sneaks by that I've never really heard of.
I didn't find that.
You found it.
Did I?
Yeah.
You found that all by yourself.
Oh,
good.
Okay.
Research.
We need to hire researchers now.
You will never be alone.
It feels like if Terrence Malick directed a folk horror movie, and for those of you who don't know who Terrence Malick is, he did The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life and kind of visually stunning movies that are... not an awful lot of dialogue the kind of the visuals tell most of the stories um it relies heavily on whispery voiceovers sensory editing and nature shots rather than traditional jump scares yes
is the thin red line the film that you watched you kept putting on to fall asleep in canada yes when we lived there and i saw the same like monologue
yeah i've kind of grown out of falling asleep to movies now i did that for about 20 years and now i'm just watching falling asleep listening to warhammer videos on youtube Yeah, well, which would you prefer, listening to World War II or Warhammer?
Well, for a while, there was a lot of Nazi stuff happening.
Okay, World War II stuff, Niamh.
I don't know, every time I came in, it was just Nazi stuff that was...
Okay, so, forgive me if I butcher the Macedonian and unusual names, but, you know, it's difficult.
So the movie was directed by Goran Stilevski and it's set in Macedonia and it's also subtitled.
So that's very important.
Now, when I saw the pictures for the movie, the promo photos, I was like, oh, Naomi Rapace is in it.
The first movie I'm going to begin with is the most obscure one.
I've been watching movies passionately for most of my life.
And every now and again, a movie sneaks by that I've never really heard of.
I didn't find that.
You found it.
Did I?
Yeah.
You found that all by yourself.
Oh,
good.
Okay.
Research.
We need to hire researchers now.
You will never be alone.
It feels like if Terrence Malick directed a folk horror movie, and for those of you who don't know who Terrence Malick is, he did The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life and kind of visually stunning movies that are... not an awful lot of dialogue the kind of the visuals tell most of the stories um it relies heavily on whispery voiceovers sensory editing and nature shots rather than traditional jump scares yes
is the thin red line the film that you watched you kept putting on to fall asleep in canada yes when we lived there and i saw the same like monologue
yeah i've kind of grown out of falling asleep to movies now i did that for about 20 years and now i'm just watching falling asleep listening to warhammer videos on youtube Yeah, well, which would you prefer, listening to World War II or Warhammer?
Well, for a while, there was a lot of Nazi stuff happening.
Okay, World War II stuff, Niamh.
I don't know, every time I came in, it was just Nazi stuff that was...
Okay, so, forgive me if I butcher the Macedonian and unusual names, but, you know, it's difficult.
So the movie was directed by Goran Stilevski and it's set in Macedonia and it's also subtitled.
So that's very important.
Now, when I saw the pictures for the movie, the promo photos, I was like, oh, Naomi Rapace is in it.
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