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The Top 31 Folk Horror Films
The thirty-one finest folk horror films in the Vault, ranked by the Crypt Score.
Ranked by Crypt Score · Updated weekly · captured Jul 20, 2026
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Sinners
R2025 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 138m · Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
The Wicker Man
R1973 · Horror · 93m · Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.
Weapons
R2025 · Horror, Mystery · 129m · Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
R1974 · Horror · 83m · Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
Hereditary
R2018 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 128m · Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Gabriel Byrne, Milly Shapiro
Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.
An American Werewolf in London
R1981 · Comedy, Horror, Fantasy · 97m · David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine
American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
R2026 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 109m · Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman
Dr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship - with consequences that could change the world as they know it - and Spike's encounter with Jimmy Crystal becomes a nightmare he can't escape.
The Devils
R1971 · Drama, History, Horror · 112m · Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian
A charismatic 17th-century French priest becomes the target of a sexually obsessed nun’s witchcraft accusations, which corrupt church and state officials are all too happy to exploit.
Cat People
NR1942 · Mystery, Horror, Romance · 73m · Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
The Witch
R2016 · Horror · 92m · Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw
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 paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.
Bone Tomahawk
NR2015 · Drama, Horror, Western · 133m · Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins, Matthew Fox
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.
Bring Her Back
R2025 · Horror · 104m · Billy Barratt, Sally Hawkins, Mischa Heywood, Jonah Wren Phillips
Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.
Hokum
R2026 · Horror · 108m · Adam Scott, Peter Coonan, David Wilmot, Florence Ordesh
When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
NR1959 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 87m · Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
The Devil Rides Out
G1968 · Horror · 96m · Christopher Lee, Leon Greene, Patrick Mower, Niké Arrighi
The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.
Midsommar
R2019 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 147m · Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Will Poulter
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. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
Frailty
R2002 · Drama, Thriller, Crime · 100m · Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O'Leary
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."
I Walked with a Zombie
NR1943 · Mystery, Horror, Drama · 69m · James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Edith Barrett
A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
R2017 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · 121m · Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.
Southern Comfort
R1981 · Thriller, War · 106m · Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
Witchfinder General
NR1968 · Drama, History, Horror · 87m · Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Robert Russell, Nicky Henson
England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.
The Last Wave
PG1977 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 106m · Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.
The King Tide
2024 · Mystery, Fantasy, Thriller · 103m · Frances Fisher, Clayne Crawford, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Aden Young
After the mayor of an idyllic island village discovers a child with mysterious powers awash on their shores, the once peaceful community devolves into civil war, torn over the belief that the child is the next saviour.
A Warning to the Curious
1972 · TV Movie, Horror, Drama · 50m · Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Julian Herrington, John Kearney
Paxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which, according to legend, protect the county from invasion. On digging the crown up, Paxton is stalked by its supernatural guardian.
The Devil All the Time
R2020 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 138m · Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgård, Riley Keough
In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
Trick 'r Treat
R2007 · Horror, Fantasy, Comedy · 82m · Brian Cox, Quinn Lord, Anna Paquin, Dylan Baker
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank, and a bitter old recluse receives an uninvited guest.
Together
R2025 · Horror, Romance · 102m · Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Damon Herriman, Mia Morrissey
Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.
The Reflecting Skin
R1990 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 95m · Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper, Sheila Moore
In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and becomes convinced that she is a vampire.
Messiah of Evil
R1975 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Joy Bang, Anitra Ford
A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.
The Blair Witch Project
R1999 · Horror, Mystery · 81m · Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams, Bob Griffin
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
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