Folk Horror Movies

A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work,...

A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's...

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy...

Basque Country, Spain, 1843. A police constable arrives at a small village in Álava to investigate a mysterious blacksmith who lives alone...

When the daughter of the town's new priest goes missing during the harvest festival, a desperate search begins, uncovering the town's dark history...

Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A...

A bullied overweight teenager sees a glimpse of hope when her tormentors are brutally abducted by a mesmerizing stranger.

In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was...

Following her mother’s death, manga artist Sorya travels to her ancestral home in Phnom Penh, with hopes of reconnecting with her distant...

A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the...

A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to...

Preparing for her wedding, Kübra gets possessed by unknown livings. To cure Kübra, a psychiatrist, Ebru, gets on way. Ebru is also an old...

Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek...

During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by...

Thevan, a folk singer of the Paanan caste, has a fateful encounter when escaping slavery, leading to discover an ancient tradition altering his...

A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she's unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove...

Housewife Dilek suddenly starts to feel the presence of something abnormal in her house. Her husband Omer refuses to agree, and the situation...

A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories...

An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British...