This wonderfully crafted BBC Play For Today from 1970 has reached near-legendary status for being one of the earliest and finest examples of folk horror. A chilling parable about a single, pregnant woman trapped in a sinister village it remains a gripping and psychologically unsettling film that was clearly ahead of its time. Originally a colour TV production, it survives only as a black and white film recording, and a rather grainy and battered one at that, which only adds to its charm and mystery.

Anna Cropper stars as Norah, a script editor spending some time at her country retreat. Whilst all the locals seem nice enough, her unease grows very gradually as she senses more is going on than she first realised, and that her life is being stage managed by others. As her attempts to get out of the village are thwarted, her experience culminates in an unexpected terror.

With plot twists and motifs that may well have informed both Rosemary’s Baby and The Wicker Man, Robin Redbreast has every right to be called a folk horror classic.