Movies: Folk horror

A young man in the Northeast of Thailand whose deaf sister mysteriously disappears on the day of the Phi Ta Khon tradition (ghosts following people) which corresponds to the mystery of a corpse with a severed mouth according to the ancient beliefs of...

When her daughter Bea abruptly arrives home, Elizabeth struggles to keep her from being unwittingly drawn into the power of The Rising....

A car load of four young people - two guys and two girls - were driving home from a dance on a dark and stormy Halloween night in 1930. They were on a dark road going through the woods between the small towns of Richibucto and Rexton on New Brunswick...

The narrator is a student conducting an antiquarian tour of New England. He travels through the nearby decrepit seaport of Innsmouth which is suggested as a cheaper and potentially interesting next leg of his journey. There he interacts with strange ...

When he finds himself plagued with nightmares about a historic battle fought on the site of the village he lives in, delinquent Cornish teenager Jonah Grattan becomes obsessed with a potential link to a local homeless man....

A young woman’s secret rocks an isolated church community....

In December of 2004, the bodies of a young couple were found in the middle of Dartmoor, a vast moorland that sits in the south western corner of the United Kingdom. The following film is made up of footage which was recovered eighteen years later....

Two desperate prospectors are hoping to strike the motherlode in an abandoned Colorado mine in the 1870s. While attempting to contend with the crushing effects of isolation, greed, paranoia and the fear of the mysterious creatures that supposedly lur...

July 7, 1977. Tormented by tinnitus and fiending for fame, folk musician Paul Cody has isolated himself at a remote cabin in the sweltering summer woods. Plagued by indescribable sights and sounds, he’s about to uncover what creeps and crawls within ...

A TV crew visits the remote Bosnian village of Blervici to film their cooking show, drawn by its rustic charm. Their host, Meho, impresses them with a mysterious traditional dish. However, a sudden rainstorm traps them overnight, and they reluctantly...

The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village comes to life through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard....

Young art school student Lana travels deep into a secluded area of the New Jersey Pine Barrens to sketch wildlife, but after a chance encounter in the woods, she struggles as a malevolent force tries to take control of her mind, body, and soul....

In the late 17th century, two Puritan witch hunters travel to a small Massachusetts town investigating rumors of devil worship, and are irrevocably transformed by the ungodly forces they encounter....

At the end of the 19th century, a boy appears in an Andean village. Nicanor, the village priest, discovers that the child’s blood causes the crops to bear fruit magically, but for the boy to live, he must be fed human blood....

A knight, abandoned by his battalion, is allured by a strange woman dancing on the hilltops. But where is she leading him?...

A woman's attempt to catch a few hours of solitude in the woods is interrupted in the night by a mysterious girl....

A writer, possessed by a terrifying story hunts for its secret heart in a mysterious landscape. He journeys into unknown, dreamlike places, haunted by the infamous Hum emitted from a strange factory....

Following a traumatic incident, Lily, a socially-aware writer, attempts to restart her life by touring the country with her friend, Zara. After accepting a free boat tour on the "Lady-Jane" through England's canals, the pair begin to realise that the...

In the mystical woods, whispers of a Bigfoot-like legend swirl, captivating the imagination of locals. Enter Fred, an ambitious entrepreneur thriving on Bigfoot tourism. When a relentless debt collector threatens to seize Fred's livelihood--the iconi...

11-year-old Neil ventures into local woods to find his missing brother Vincent, only to discover a truth that challenges the community's accusations against their father....