Wildwood channels The Decemberists' folk fairytale legacy

“I feel like when we were first coming up with the story, we were trying to really go for the early stuff — pull from folktale and fair ytale tropes,” Meloy tells Polygon. “I think there’s so many things in the movie that, because that was really the intent from the outset, was to create a fairy tale. Inevitably, it ends up like fantasy in the context of 2026, but that’s what we were shooting for.”