Folk Horror

R2008 · Thriller, Horror · 92m · Nathan Phillips, Leigh Whannell, Bille Brown

An extinct species, the Tasmanian tiger. A long-forgotten legend, “The Pieman” aka Alexander Pearce, who was hanged for cannibalism in 1824. Both had a desperate need to survive; both could have living descendants within the Tasmanian bush. Four hikers venture deep into isolated territory to find one of these legends, but which one will they come upon first?

R2002 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 92m · Patricia Clarkson, Erik Per Sullivan, Jake Weber

A family from the city decide to spend a weekend away at a friend's country farmhouse. But a fluke accident sets off a chain of events that alters their lives forever and conjures up the ferocious spirit of the Wendigo.

IMDb 5.1MC 63🍅 60%TMDB 4.8☠ 5.4

R1972 · Horror, Drama · 89m · Jan White, Raymond Laine, Ann Muffly

An unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft with unexpected consequences.

IMDb 5.6MC 40TMDB 5.2☠ 5.4

NR2016 · Horror · 88m · Mitchell Musolino, Will Stout, Lexi Dripps

It's Halloween 1989, best friends Sam and Josh are trying to enjoy what's left of their final Devil's Night before graduating high school. But trouble arises when the two pals and a group of friends take a detour on their way to a rock concert, finding an old abandoned barn and awakening the evil inside. Now it's up to Sam and Josh to find a way to protect their friends and defeat the creatures that lurk within "The Barn".

IMDb 5.2TMDB 4.8☠ 5.4

2008 · Horror, Drama · 89m · Samantha Morton, Steven Mackintosh, Mhairi Anderson

A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences.

IMDb 5.1TMDB 5.2☠ 5.4

2023 · Horror · 101m · Cara Buono, Clare Foley, Spencer List

In 1987, a group of counselors accidentally unleashes a decades' old evil on the last night of summer camp.

IMDb 4.6🍅 74%TMDB 5.5☠ 5.4

R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Riva Spier, Murray Ord, Sheri McFadden

A group of three friends on a snowmobiling trip find themselves stranded at an abandoned lodge isolated in the mountains. They discover that an old woman resides in the hotel, along with an evil entity that she is keeping in the basement.

IMDb 5.0TMDB 5.2☠ 5.4

R1983 · Horror · 86m · Helen Benton, Terry Brown, Dana Day

Sarah and her boyfriend have decided to spend Christmas at his home in rural Wisconsin. However, upon arriving, she begins to feel a strange presence around her, and a mysterious figure garbed in a Samurai outfit begins murdering the townsfolk.

IMDb 4.7TMDB 4.6☠ 5.4

R2023 · Horror, Romance, Fantasy · 99m · Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Amandla Stenberg, Heidi von Palleske

Tormented by a hidden family curse, Heather lives in seclusion on the outskirts of a small town. When she falls for the rebellious Jonny, their connection threatens to unravel Heather's suppressed desires, tempting her to unleash the animal within.

IMDb 4.8MC 50🍅 71%TMDB 4.4☠ 5.4

NR1968 · Horror, Science Fiction · 97m · Kent Taylor, Beverly Powers, John Ashley

Americans investigating the results of nuclear radiation discover a man-eating monster on a remote island.

R1996 · Fantasy, Horror · 92m · Robert John Burke, Michael Constantine, Lucinda Jenney

An obese lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old Romani man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the old man to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate lawyer as he draws closer to his own death, and grows ever thinner.

IMDb 5.8MC 33🍅 19%TMDB 5.9☠ 5.3

PG-132023 · Horror, Mystery · 99m · Megan Suri, Neeru Bajwa, Mohana Krishnan

Desperate to fit in at school, Sam rejects her Indian culture and family to be like everyone else. However, when a mythological demonic spirit latches onto her former best friend, she must come to terms with her heritage to defeat it.

IMDb 5.2MC 50🍅 64%TMDB 5.7☠ 5.3

1976 · Horror · 91m · Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones

A psychotic redneck owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas, where he murders those who upset him or his business, and then feeds their remains to his pet crocodile in the swamp beside his hotel.

IMDb 5.5MC 48🍅 29%TMDB 5.5☠ 5.3

NR2018 · Horror · 92m · Jess McLeod, Hannah Cheramy, John Emmet Tracy

Samantha has lived her whole life in different foster homes. Now living in a small town, she never feels like she quite fits in, even with her own current foster family who might adopt her, or the boy who follows her around doing her classwork. So, it’s perhaps natural that she doesn’t know what to do with a curious tagalong little sister named Olivia. One day, Sam callously ditches Olivia, who wanders off into the woods on her own and disappears.

IMDb 4.9TMDB 6.3☠ 5.3

R2019 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 101m · Lauryn Canny, Bryan Batt, Nora-Jane Noone

Found at a Catholic hospital filthy and ferocious, feral teenager Darlin’ is whisked off to a care home run by The Bishop and his obedient nuns, where she’s to be rehabilitated into a "good girl" as an example of the miraculous work of the church. But Darlin’ holds a secret darker than the "sins" she is threatened with, and she is not traveling alone. The Woman who raised her, equally fierce and feral, is ever present in the shadows of Darlin’s psyche and is determined to come for her no matter who tries to get in her way.

IMDb 4.9MC 49🍅 69%TMDB 5.3☠ 5.3

2022 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 83m · Jocelin Donahue, Joe Swanberg, Richard Brake

Upon receiving a mysterious letter that her mother's grave has been vandalized, Marie travels to the desolate island town where she's buried. Just as she arrives, the island closes for the season, leaving Marie trapped in a nightmare.

IMDb 4.9MC 55🍅 66%TMDB 5.2☠ 5.3

R2023 · Horror, Western, Drama · 112m · Zoé De Grand Maison, Mather Zickel, Lisa LoCicero

A young Abigale Archer is left friendless and alone in a brutal Montana winter during the 1870s—fighting for survival and to retrieve her one earthly possession, her family’s horse, from a gang of bloodthirsty bandits.

IMDb 5.0TMDB 6.1☠ 5.3

NR2021 · Horror, Mystery · 83m · Ariana Guerra, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Elpidia Carrillo

A Mexican-American couple expecting their first child relocate to a migrant farming community in 1970's California. When the wife begins to experience strange symptoms and terrifying visions, she tries to determine if it's related to a legendary curse or something more nefarious.

IMDb 4.9MC 43🍅 72%TMDB 5.6☠ 5.3

G1972 · Adventure, Mystery, Horror · 87m · Vern Stierman, Chuck Pierce Jr., William Stumpp

A documentary-style drama based on true accounts of the Fouke Monster in Arkansas.

IMDb 5.2TMDB 5.0☠ 5.3

2023 · Horror · 85m · Hannah Emily Anderson, Madison Walsh, Roseanne Supernault

While recovering from an abusive relationship, Joy joins her friend's therapy group on an isolated mountainous retreat. Led by a doctor with experimental methods, the group is soon forced to confront a monstrous entity.

IMDb 4.4🍅 72%TMDB 5.2☠ 5.3

R2018 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Charlie Blackwood, Julie Hannan, Scott Vickers

A pregnant woman and her husband are taken in by a farmer and his wife after crashing their car in the Scottish countryside. Once inside, they realize their hosts’ daughter is a missing child from the news years earlier. Things take a sinister twist when the farmer and his wife inform the couple they intend to keep their baby once born.

IMDb 5.2TMDB 5.1☠ 5.3

2017 · Horror · 97m · Evan Ross, Henry Czerny, Dominique Provost-Chalkley

A college class project on creation and destruction of modern myth, turns terrifying when a trio of young people come to realize the urban legends surrounding the famed Buckout Road may, in fact, be REAL.

IMDb 4.2🍅 63%TMDB 6.5☠ 5.3

2023 · Horror · 78m · Howard J. Dave, Abi Casson Thompson, Beatrice Fletcher

A group of people go to the legendary Island of the Dolls to learn the deadly truth.

IMDb 2.5TMDB 5.2☠ 5.3

R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Jason Behr, Mia Blake, David Fane

American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer wanders the world, exploring and exploiting ethnic themes in his tattoo designs. At a tattoo expo in Singapore, he gets his first glimpse at the exotic world of traditional Samoan tattoo (tatau), and, in a thoughtless act, unwittingly unleashes a powerful angry spirit. In his devastating journey into Pacific mysticism, Jake must find a way to save his new love, Sina and recover his own soul.