The retrospective The Haunted Isles: Folk Horror and the Wyrd in the UK and Ireland at the Offscreen Film Festival in March is getting an epilogue with June’s B to Z program, which brings back two films that couldn’t be shown earlier.

The Shout is a mysterious tale about a psychiatric patient who, during a stay with an Aboriginal tribe, learns the secret of “the shout”: a scream with the power to kill. Based on a story by the renowned English writer and poet Robert Graves, the film’s uncanny and ambiguous atmosphere is reminiscent of the work of British filmmaker Nicolas Roeg. Yet it’s a Polish director, Jerzy Skolimowski, who manages to transform quintessentially English symbols like cricket and cottages into something utterly bizarre and existentially disturbing.

In The Woman in Black, a young solicitor travels to the coastal market town of Crythin Gifford to settle the estate of a recently deceased widow who lived alone in the desolate Eel Marsh House. As he sorts through the old widow’s personal belongings, he soon becomes aware of the sinister presence of a woman in black... Expertly directed by Herbert Wise (who also adapted I, Claudius for television from the novel by Robert Graves) and written for the small screen by Nigel Kneale, known for Quatermass among others, this superior 1989 television adaptation of Susan Hill’s ghost story still manages to make your hair stand on end.