Shane Meadows’ folk horror is brilliantly bizarre
[ad_1] Folk horror, black comedy and Ken Loach-style social commentary frolicked together across the West Yorkshire Moors in Shane Meadows’s enjoyably weird The Gallows Pole. With one foot in the supernatural and the other in English historical drama, his retelling of the story of the 18th-century gold counterfeiters who nearly unravelled the economy was a…