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Folk Horror

Folk Horror

Wander the haunting landscapes of influential, beguiling genre, Folk Horror.

Pyewacket
Pyewacket

Feeling isolated and hopeless, Leah turns to Black Magic to release her anger. She naively performs an occult ritual found in a book on her bedroom shelf to invoke the spirit of a witch to kill her mother.

The Hallow
The Hallow

When a London-based conservationist is sent to Ireland to survey an area of forest believed to be hallowed ground, his actions disturb a horde of demonic creatures who prey upon the lost.

Beyond the Door III
Beyond the Door III

A coed and her friends go to Yugoslavia, where the Prince of Darkness wants her for his bride.

A Dark Song
A Dark Song

A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives, and souls, to perform a dangerous ritual.

Tower. A Bright Day.
Tower. A Bright Day.

Raising her niece as her own, a woman fears the sudden return of her sister believing she may reclaim the child... or something more sinister.

The Devonsville Terror
The Devonsville Terror

Witches were burned 300 years before in a New England town.

Unwelcome
Unwelcome

A couple is warned of murderous goblins who live in their garden.

Darklands
Darklands

A journalist investigates an evil cult who may have murdered a female colleague.

Moloch
Moloch

After being attacked, the deeper Betriek digs, the more she becomes convinced a mysterious entity is hunting her.

Good Madam
Good Madam

Tsidi, a single mother, is forced to move in with her estranged mother Mavis, a live-in domestic worker caring obsessively for her catatonic white ‘Madam’. As Tsidi tries to heal her family however, a sinister spectre begins to stir.

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

This acclaimed documentary is a mega text through the history of folk horror, exploring the rural roots, occult creeds and cultural lore that continue to shape international cinema.

Eyes of Fire
Eyes of Fire

On the 18th century frontier, an adulterous preacher and his followers flee to ‘the promised land’ only to enter a valley of lust, madness, pagan vengeance and hallucinatory terror.

Il Demonio
Il Demonio

Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession.

Alison
Alison's Birthday

During a Ouija board session, 16-year-old Alison is warned not to go home for her 19th birthday.

Leptirica
Leptirica

A group of rural villagers is beset upon by the infamous vampire Sava Savanovic, who has taken up residence in their local flour mill.

Wilczyca
Wilczyca

A cavalry officer named Kasper returns home to find his wife dying. With her last breath she confesses that she has sold her soul, and will return as a she-wolf.

Lake of the Dead
Lake of the Dead

A group of friends ventures into the forest to join their friend Bjørn at his remote cabin. They arrive to find his dog dead and no sign of him.

Lokis
Lokis

Based on the 1869 gothic novel by Prosper Mérimée, LOKIS concerns a pastor who visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs still have a hold on the population.

Tilbury
Tilbury

Set in 1940 during the British occupation, a country boy discovers his childhood sweetheart is having an affair with a British soldier, an ugly, impish man who spontaneously vomits green butter.

Clearcut
Clearcut

A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.

The Medium
The Medium

From the creators of SHUTTER and THE WAILING, comes a terrifying story of possession.

Messiah of Evil
Messiah of Evil

A young woman heads to a mysterious seaside town in search of her father, in one of the great cult gems of 70s horror.

The Reckoning
The Reckoning

From The Descent's Neil Marshall. A woman accused of witchcraft endures physical and emotional trial as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.

La Llorona
La Llorona

In this bold new vision of La Llorona, a retired war criminal believes a wrathful supernatural force is targeting him.

Impetigore
Impetigore

Returning to her ancestral village, a young woman finds herself in a fight for her life. From the director of SATAN'S SLAVES.

Gwen
Gwen

In this stark folk horror, a young girl tries desperately to keep her home together as a growing darkness takes hold.

The Noonday Witch
The Noonday Witch

A mythical witch comes for a widowed mother and her young daughter.