Folk Horror Movies

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them....

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to...

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and...

A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the...

A boy and his stepmother fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy's recently deceased father visits them.

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly...

In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long...

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,...

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

A 19th-century widow is tasked with making an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a ship sinks off the coast of her...

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore...

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however,...

A small-town Oregon teacher and her brother, the local sheriff, discover a young student is harbouring a dangerous secret that could have frightening...

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...

A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local...

Students on a camping trip discover something sinister is lurking beyond the trees.

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...

When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable...

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...