
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

Halloween at Aunt Ethel's
›2019 · Horror, Comedy · 80m · Gail Yost, Madeleine Murphy, Stephanie Town
Everyone in town knows the story of Old Aunt Ethel. It's said she makes Halloween candy and pumpkin pie out of the kids that trick-or-treat at her house. This Halloween, the neighborhood teens are going to find out the truth.

Howling IV: The Original Nightmare
›R1988 · Horror · 95m · Romy Walthall, Michael T. Weiss, Antony Hamilton
An author who was sent to the town Drakho, because of a nervous breakdown, gets wound up in a mystery revolving around demons and werewolves. She starts seeing ghosts and dismisses them as her own imagination, but when they turn out to be real she becomes suspicious of the odd town and of its past.

The Unfamiliar
›R2020 · Thriller, Horror · 89m · Jemima West, Christopher Dane, Rebecca Hanssen
A British Army doctor comes back from a war, thinking that she has PTSD only to discover that there is a more daunting malevolence at work making the life that she knew unfamiliar.

Lake Fear
›2014 · Horror, Comedy · 89m · Jessica Willis, Shanon Snedden, Joshua Winch
Four girls go to a cabin in the woods, which is inhabited by evil. This cabin then ensnares them in a labyrinth of macabre as they must battle their way out.

Bone Eater
›2008 · Horror, TV Movie · 90m · Paul Rae, Bruce Boxleitner, William Katt
Ancient Native American legend of the Bone Eater rises up and begins terrorizing the local townspeople

Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain
›R2003 · Horror, Comedy · 78m · Bobbie Phillips, Howard Rosenstein, Ginger Lynn Allen
Two American tourists on a romantic camping trip are brutally murdered. A few days later, during the ancient festival of Samhain, a group of American university students moves into a beautiful cottage, surrounded by a lush forest and a majestic lake They are here to learn about the rituals of the ancient Druids and other Celtic legends. But in the remains of an abandoned copper mine, lives the ancestors of an incestuous clan of cannibals. Stalked by a hulking, disfigured mutant, the students and their chaperone are in for the most harrowing time of their young lives. And keeping their heads on their necks will become their main concern...

Wolf
›2019 · Horror, Thriller, Action · 85m · Stuart Brennan, Mark Paul Wake, George McCluskey
Great Britain. 150AD. When four messengers sent by Rome to a plague infected Caledonia, with a message of peace and help for their King, go missing Rome has no choice but to send ten of their finest across Hadrian's Wall to find and bring them back. Led by their Captain, Domitius, (George McCluskey, "The Zombie King"), and two of their strongest warriors, Grackus, (Stuart Brennan, "Risen") and Nerva, (Mark Paul Wake, "Plan Z"), the legion soon realise that what lays in wait for them is something much worse than any plague or army known to man - And with them being picked off one by one on their journey back to the wall by a beast none of them can match, and survival being their only hope, will there be anyone left to warn Rome of the dangers it may now face. Fight For Rome. Fight For Caesar. Fight To Survive.

The Wicker Tree
›R2011 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 96m · Graham McTavish, Honeysuckle Weeks, Christopher Lee
Gospel singer Beth and her cowboy boyfriend Steve leave Texas to preach door-to-door in Scotland. When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they're about to learn the real meaning of sacrifice.

Camp Hell
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Will Denton, Bruce Davison, Christopher Denham
At the end of every summer, the children of a Christian community from a suburb of New Jersey attend Camp Hope. They travel deep into the woods far from any distractions the world provides. Here, the children are taught the ways of the Lord, the perils of the flesh, and the horror of the Devil. A charismatic priest leads them in their training. But, he unknowingly has brought something with him, something evil. What was supposed to be a safe place, a spiritual retreat has now turned into a nightmare that not even faith can end.

Demon Eye
›2019 · Horror · 87m · Darren Day, Liam Fox, Kate James
A young woman returns to her father's country house in the moors following his mysterious death and finds a cursed amulet, connected to local witchcraft. She unlocks two deadly demons, who haunt her.

The Wicker Man
›PG-132006 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 102m · Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan
A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.

Man-Thing
›R2005 · Action, Horror, Adventure · 97m · Matthew Le Nevez, Rachael Taylor, Jack Thompson
Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear.

Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror
›R1998 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Stacy Galina, Alexis Arquette, Adam Wylie
Six college students take a wrong turn and find themselves lost in a strangely deserted rural town... only to discover that this deceptively quiet place hides a murderous cult of children.

The Legend of La Llorona
›R2022 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Autumn Reeser, Antonio Cupo, Danny Trejo
While vacationing in Mexico, a couple discovers their son's disappearance is tied to a supernatural curse.

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
›R2000 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Kim Director, Jeffrey Donovan, Erica Leerhsen
A group of college students decide to take part in a witch hunt tour inspired by a horror movie. As the adventure goes awry, the students realise that an evil being has followed them home.

Temple
›2017 · History, Horror · 78m · Logan Huffman, Brandon Sklenar, Natalia Warner
Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into the jungles of Japan searching for an ancient temple. When spirits entrap them, their adventure quickly becomes a horrific nightmare.

Children of the Corn
›R2020 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Elena Kampouris, Kate Moyer, Callan Mulvey
A psychopathic twelve-year-old girl in a small town in Nebraska recruits all the other children and goes on a bloody rampage, killing the corrupt adults and anyone else who opposes her. A bright high schooler who won't go along with the plan is the town's only hope of survival.

Butcher Boys
›R2013 · Horror, Action, Comedy · 86m · Ali Faulkner, Edwin Neal, Marilyn Burns
A gut-wrenching, non-stop roller coaster ride through the hellish underbelly of inner-city America. A birthday celebration at an upscale restaurant sets in motion events that bring Sissy, her brother, Mikey, and friends, Kenny and Barbie, face to face with the macabre world of the Boneboys. Inspired by Jonathan Swift's cannibalistic tale A Modest Proposal, the Boneboys are international predators who deal in human flesh - dead or alive. Their hunting grounds are the cities of the world.

All Girls Weekend
›R2016 · Horror · 86m · Jamie Bernadette, Katie Carpenter, Gema Calero
High school friends reunite after many years to spend a weekend in the mountains, but when everything goes wrong, there is no time for girl bonding.

The Marsupials: The Howling III
›PG-131987 · Horror · 98m · Barry Otto, Max Fairchild, Imogen Annesley
A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?

Children of the Corn
›2009 · Horror, TV Movie · 92m · David Anders, Kandyse McClure, Daniel Newman
A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.

Slender Man
›PG-132018 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 93m · Julia Goldani Telles, Joey King, Jaz Sinclair
In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.

Leprechaun: Origins
›R2014 · Horror · 90m · Stephanie Bennett, Andrew Dunbar, Melissa Roxburgh
Two young couples backpacking through Ireland discover that one of Ireland's most famous legends is a terrifying reality.

Survival Island
›R2002 · Horror · 84m · Jaime Pressly, Nicholas Brendon, Lara Wickes
A group of teens on a remote island for a scavenger hunt accidentally unleash vengeful spirits from a cursed piñata and must fight to survive.
