
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

Regression
›R2015 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 106m · Ethan Hawke, Emma Watson, David Thewlis
Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is brought in to help him relive his memories and what they discover unmasks a horrifying nationwide mystery.

The Reaping
›R2007 · Horror · 99m · Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp.

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin
›R2021 · Horror, Mystery · 98m · Emily Bader, Ari Notartomaso, Alexa Shae Niziak
Margot is a documentary filmmaker looking to meet her long-lost mother and extended family in a secluded Amish community. She and her film crew soon realize the family that welcomes them into their home might be hiding a sinister secret.

Leprechaun Returns
›R2018 · Horror, Comedy · 93m · Taylor Spreitler, Pepi Sonuga, Sai Bennett
A group of unwitting sorority sisters accidentally awaken the serial-killing Leprechaun after they build a sorority house on his hunting grounds.

The New Daughter
›PG-132009 · Horror, Thriller · 108m · Kevin Costner, Ivana Baquero, Gattlin Griffith
John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina. The property has an Indian burial mound, which fascinates his daughter, Louisa, who's entering puberty.

Wicked Little Things
›R2006 · Fantasy, Horror · 94m · Lori Heuring, Scout Taylor-Compton, Chloë Grace Moretz
Karen, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of children alive, underground. But there's a problem. They're still alive.

The Twin
›2022 · Horror, Mystery · 109m · Teresa Palmer, Steven Cree, Barbara Marten
Every parent's worst nightmare is just the beginning for Rachel's ordeal as in the aftermath of a tragic accident, she and her husband Anthony decide to move to the other side of the world to focus on their surviving twin son Elliot. What begins as a time of healing and isolation in the Finnish countryside turns into a desperate battle for the very soul of their son as an entity claiming to be his dead twin brother takes over Elliot — setting Rachel on a diabolical journey to unravel the horrible truth about her twin son.

The Guardian
›R1990 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 92m · Jenny Seagrove, Dwier Brown, Carey Lowell
Phil and Kate select the winsome young Camilla as a live-in nanny for their newborn child, but the seemingly lovely Camilla is not what she appears to be...

When the Lights Went Out
›2012 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 86m · Steven Waddington, Kate Ashfield, Jo Hartley
Yorkshire, 1974, the Maynard family moves into their dream house. It's a dream that quickly descends into a panic stricken nightmare as the family discovers a horrifying truth, a truth that will make the history books. The house is already occupied by the most violent poltergeist ever documented, a poltergeist that will tear you from your bed as you sleep and drag you helplessly into the darkness.

Primal
›NR2010 · Thriller, Horror · 80m · Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Krew Boylan, Will Travel
Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel’s lover and friends realise they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape another one of them starts to regress, posing a hideous choice; kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave, where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study.

Devil in the Dark
›2017 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Dan Payne, Robin Dunne, Daniel Cudmore
When estranged brothers Adam and Clint attempt to reconnect over a week-long hunting trip in remote British Columbia, they find the tables turned by a mysterious presence lurking in the forest. Convinced that they are now besieged by a supernatural presence, the siblings begrudgingly agree on only one thing: they will have to put aside their differences and work together if they plan on making it out these dark woods alive.

Leprechaun's Revenge
›R2012 · Horror, Fantasy, Thriller · 88m · Billy Zane, Courtney Halverson, William Devane
An evil leprechaun who has been imprisoned within the roots of a majestic old oak tree, is accidentally set loose on St. Patrick's Day. Once free, he takes out his bloody revenge on the descendants of the people who originally imprisoned him.

Nightwing
›PG1979 · Horror · 105m · Nick Mancuso, David Warner, Kathryn Harrold
Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.

Sawney: Flesh of Man
›2012 · Horror · 89m · Elizabeth Brown, Lisa Cameron, Lindsay Cromar
Religious psychopath Sawney stalks Scotland abducting unholy souls for his communion of sacrifices. With his insane family of inbred killers, Sawney tortures and eats their victims saving the best morsels for a chained-up figure in their cavernous Highlands lair. As the Missing Persons list rises investigative crime journalist Hamish MacDonald writes sensational and damming headlines against the police, due to their incompetence in handling the case. After his fiancée is kidnapped by the cannibal clan Hamish investigates the heinous crimes on his own with disastrous results. For there’s something he doesn’t know about the case that’s crucial to solving it…

Krampus: The Return
›2022 · Horror · 79m · Amber Doig-Thorne, Natasha Rose Mills, Dan Robins
After Lisa's brother mysteriously dies, she and her college friends go to her family home for answers. They are shocked to discover that his killer was non-other than the Christmas demon, Krampus.

Deeply
›2000 · Drama, Mystery, Romance · 101m · Kirsten Dunst, Lynn Redgrave, Julia Brendler
On Ironbound Island, native Fiona McKay arrives from Europe with her teenage daughter Clair, hoping that the peace of the island will help the girl get over the death of her boyfriend. The girl finds comfort in the company of a visiting American girl and more so in the stories of Celia, a crazy old local who weaves enchanting tales which cleverly combine her own experiences on the island with mystifying legends.

Apocalyptic
›2014 · Horror, Drama · 84m · Jane Elizabeth Barry, David Macrae, Geoff Pinfield
A local news crew become horribly involved with a doomsday cult.

Unearth
›2020 · Horror · 94m · Adrienne Barbeau, Marc Blucas, PJ Marshall
The relationship between two neighboring farm families are strained when one of them chooses to lease their land to an oil and gas company. In the midst of growing tension, the land is drilled, and something long dormant and terrifying, deep beneath the earth's surface is released. "Unearth" is about the horrifying repercussions sown by short-sighted decisions, and what our children reap from our actions.

Creatures the World Forgot
›PG1971 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Julie Ege, Brian O'Shaughnessy, Tony Bonner
As the first nomadic tribes wander across the vast wilderness of the infant planet they confront hostilities created by the harsh environment and each other. After a massive volcanic eruption a tribal chief is killed and his two sons fight for supremacy, not only for the leadership of the tribe but also for the love of a beautiful young woman. The age-old battlegrounds of rivalry, envy and passion are explored in this tale of prehistoric adventure.

Kryptic
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 102m · Chloe Pirrie, Jeff Gladstone, Jason Deline
A woman’s search for a missing cryptzoologist leads to her own riveting cosmic quest for identity.

The Hexecutioners
›2015 · Horror · 95m · Liv Collins, Sarah Power, Timothy Burd
Two disparate young women working for a company that conducts euthanasia are dispatched to a remote estate to perform a custom assisted-suicide ritual, but unwittingly summon the wraiths of a Death Cult that once inhabited the property.

The Legend of Lucy Keyes
›2006 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Julie Delpy, Justin Theroux, Brooke Adams
When an urban family moves to a rural New England town with secrets, little do they know that their new house holds a history of tragic sorrow.

Reed's Point
›2022 · Horror · 77m · Joe Estevez, Julia Kelly, Sasha Anne
A vehicle crash in the Pine Barrens leads to a missing teen which raises conspiracy theories about the infamous Jersey Devil legend. On the anniversary of the crash, Sarah Franklin, convinced her cousin Kelsey is alive, goes out to the crash site with Alex, Kelsey's boyfriend, to investigate. Things go downhill quickly as Sarah and Alex uncover what really lurks in the woods.

The Curse of La Llorona
›R2019 · Horror · 93m · Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velásquez
In 1970s Los Angeles, the legendary ghost La Llorona is stalking the night -- and the children. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her own kids are drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope of surviving La Llorona's deadly wrath is a disillusioned priest who practices mysticism to keep evil at bay.
