
Sub-genre
Folk Horror
🌾 Every folk horror title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
532 titles

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
›R1974 · Action, Horror · 89m · Peter Cushing, David Chiang Da-Wei, Julie Ege
Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force of all.... Count Dracula. But he is not alone- to aid him comes a mystical brotherhood of seven martial arts warriors.

Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism
›2023 · Horror · 92m · Georgia Eyers, Dan Ewing, Tim Pocock
Lara is a woman tormented, torn between science and faith. Pushed by her husband to seek treatment from a congregation of zealots, a ruthless exorcist will try to save her soul by putting an innocent woman through hell.

The Isle
›NR2019 · Thriller, Adventure, Fantasy · 96m · Conleth Hill, Alex Hassell, Tori Butler-Hart
1840 and another ship crashes on the rocks of an almost deserted island in Scotland. Three sailors survive the wreck and make it to shore where the few locals take them in as they wait for the mainland boat to come for them. But the sailors' survival story has only just started as they uncover the strange past of the once vibrant island.

We Still Say Grace
›2020 · Thriller, Horror · 94m · Holly Taylor, Bruce Davison, Rita Volk
The teenage daughter of a religious fanatic attempts to escape her twisted family life when three strangers break down near their remote farmhouse and interrupt her father's delusional family suicide pact.

The Devil Comes at Night
›2023 · Horror · 80m · Jason Martorino, Elias Zarou, Jeremiah Sparks
A washed up boxer searching for his inheritance must fight for his life when he is trapped in his deceased father's farmhouse by a local cannibal cult.

The Terror of Hallow's Eve
›2017 · Horror, Thriller · 80m · Caleb Thomas, Sarah Lancaster, Annie Read
After a fifteen-year-old is brutally beaten up by High School bullies, his wish for revenge unknowingly unleashes the Terror of Halloween.

Strigoi
›2009 · Comedy, Fantasy, Horror · 101m · Roxana Guttman, Cătălin Paraschiv, Rudy Rosenfeld
When the villagers killed Constantin Tirescu, they thought it was justice. Vlad Cozma thinks it was murder. Now, Constantin thinks pickles might go nice with blood.

Dark August
›PG1976 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · Kim Hunter, J.J. Barry, Carolyne Barry
A young girl is accidentally run down by a car driven by a careless city slicker. This careless injustice provokes the girl's grandfather into summoning his mystical powers and placing a death curse on the young man. Desperate to stave off the dire consequences of the hex, Barry seeks the counsel of a local psychic medium.

Grim Prairie Tales
›R1990 · Western, Horror · 86m · James Earl Jones, Brad Dourif, William Atherton
Two travelers meet on the open prairie, and pass their time together by trading stories with each other. Their tales become a sort of competition, each attempting to relate something which might disturb the other.

Frogman
›NR2024 · Horror · 81m · Nathan Tymoshuk, Chelsey Grant, Benny Barrett
An amateur filmmaker, struggling to turn his passion into a career, returns with friends to Loveland, Ohio, the location of his first, notorious sighting of the Frogman, determined to obtain irrefutable proof that the cryptid legend exists.

The Crescent
›2017 · Mystery, Horror · 99m · Britt Loder, Andrew Gillis, Amy Trefry
After an unexpected death in the family, a mother and son struggle to find spiritual healing at a beachfront summer home.

Wrong Turn
›R2021 · Horror, Thriller · 110m · Charlotte Vega, Adain Bradley, Bill Sage
Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life.

The Offering
›R2022 · Drama, Horror · 93m · Nick Blood, Emm Wiseman, Paul Kaye
In the wake of a young Jewish girl’s disappearance, the son of a Hasidic funeral director returns home with his pregnant wife in hopes of reconciling with his father. Little do they know that directly beneath them in the family morgue, an ancient evil with sinister plans for the unborn child lurks inside a mysterious corpse.

Husk
›R2011 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Devon Graye, Wes Chatham, C.J. Thomason
A group of friends stranded near a desolate cornfield find shelter in an old farmhouse, though they soon discover the dwelling is the center of a supernatural ritual.

Dark Harvest
›R2023 · Horror, Fantasy, Thriller · 96m · Casey Likes, Luke Kirby, West Mulholland
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.

The Other Lamb
›2020 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 97m · Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman, Denise Gough
For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence—including her allegiance to the increasingly dangerous Shepherd.

Jug Face
›R2013 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 81m · Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Young
When a supernatural pit worshipped by a remote community in the woods demands a new blood sacrifice, a young woman struggles to find a way to survive as the pit lashes out in anger.

Unwelcome
›R2023 · Horror, Fantasy · 104m · Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth, Jamie Lee O'Donnell
Londoners Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent, murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden. When heavily pregnant Maya’s relationship with a local family turns sour, who – or what – will come to her rescue and to what extremes will she go to protect her unborn child?

Black Mountain Side
›NR2016 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 99m · Shane Twerdun, Michael Dickson, Carl Toftfelt
A group of archaeologists working in Northern Canada uncover a strange structure dating over ten thousand years before the present. The team soon finds themselves isolated when their communication systems fail and they begin to feel the effects of solitude.

Two Thousand Maniacs!
›NR1964 · Horror · 87m · Connie Mason, William Kerwin, Jeffrey Allen
Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.

Master
›R2022 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 98m · Regina Hall, Zoë Renee, Amber Gray
At an elite New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill, two black women strive to find their place. Navigating politics and privilege, they encounter increasingly terrifying manifestations of the school's haunted past… and present.

Ritual
›2012 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · Rio Dewanto, Hannah Al Rashid, Marsha Timothy
A father on vacation wakes up separated from his family and races through the woods to find them.

Head Count
›2019 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 90m · Isaac Jay, Ashleigh Morghan, Chelcie May
Newcomer Evan joins a group of teens on a getaway in Joshua Tree. While exchanging ghost stories around the campfire, Evan reads aloud a mysterious chant from an internet site. From that moment, someone--or something--is among them.

Two Witches
›R2023 · Horror · 95m · Rebekah Kennedy, Belle Adams, Jacob DeMonte-Finn
A matriarchal witch passes on her sinister inheritance to her grand-daughter, triggering the most horrific curses.
