Movies: Folk horror

An archaeologist unearths an idol of an ancient hunter-gatherer society in interior Goa. The discovery triggers a phantom to roam the marshlands, with an insatiable hunger. In its path lies Carona, a sleepy village of Catholics and Hindus, living on ...

Chelsea, a heavily pregnant woman, receives an unexpected visit from her Balinese father-in-law. Signs of supernatural forces and black magic soon follow, leading Chelsea to believe that something sinister has been brought into her home....

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....

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

On the run from relentless redneck cultists, a lone girl finds herself trapped in a cycle of violence and death....

Three brothers, Selma, Emre and Ayşe, went for a little stroll by the river near the city they live in. This is a different trip because Selma and Emre are going to sacrifice their little sister Ayşe, who is deaf and dumb according to their family's ...

A starving vampire seeks a new path forward after swearing off human blood. They are approached by another of their kind who hands them a map, pointing them in the direction of a witch in the woods who resides over a vampire brood. It is in her body,...

After a deadly accident Noah gets haunted by a mysterious creature – the Drud....

A young woman finds a way to resurrect the lover she lost to suicide, with devastating, unforeseen consequences....

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....

A young lad delves into the local folk tale of a murderous monk for an upcoming exhibition. While out taking stills for the project, he disappears leaving it up to his brother to find out exactly what happened at Lidwell Chapel....

Five children venture into the forest to find the Urpus dolls, with the help of a book. But along the way something unexpected and terrifying will happen; that will change their lives forever....

A private investigator takes on an audacious local community where they seem to worship an ancient fabled crown and yet are not aware of the deadly horror and consequences that guard its true existence....

A "couple" gets lost in the woods, unaware that something else lurks in the sticks....

There's something in the woods....

A man breaks into an abandoned house and finds something disturbing buried in a heap of dirt....

When a folklore-obsessed Instagrammer livestreams her visit to a haunted wood, her viewers get a glimpse of the truth behind the legends....

Ana, a young orphan moves to the house in the forest where her only friend lives. The ambition of her friend's father to take over the nearby lands will awaken an old pagan cult that will use Ana as their only option to protect the place....

A miner finds an ancient Druid artefact which released a beast on a small Welsh town...

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