Folk Horror

R2025 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 115m · Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Alfie Williams, Ralph Fiennes

Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

IMDb 6.6MC 77🍅 88%TMDB 6.6☠ 6.8

R2021 · Horror, Mystery · 111m · Sadie Sink, Emily Rudd, Ryan Simpkins

In 1978, two rival groups at Camp Nightwing must band together to solve a terrifying mystery when horrors from their towns' history come alive.

IMDb 6.7MC 61🍅 88%TMDB 7.2☠ 6.8

R2021 · Mystery, Horror · 115m · Kiana Madeira, Benjamin Flores Jr., Olivia Scott Welch

In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, and it's up to teenagers in 1994 to finally put an end to their town's curse, before it's too late.

IMDb 6.6MC 68🍅 89%TMDB 7.1☠ 6.8

NR2017 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 112m · Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Callie Hernandez

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

IMDb 6.5MC 80🍅 91%TMDB 6.3☠ 6.8

R1984 · Horror, Fantasy · 95m · Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner

An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?

IMDb 6.6MC 69🍅 85%TMDB 6.3☠ 6.8

NR1960 · Mystery, Horror · 78m · Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee, Patricia Jessel

In Whitewood, Massachusetts, a presumed witch places a curse on the town before she is burned at the stake. 300 years later, a college student arrives and checks into the mysterious Raven's Inn to research the town's history with witchcraft.

IMDb 6.7🍅 75%TMDB 6.5☠ 6.8

R1978 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 86m · Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

IMDb 6.5🍅 86%TMDB 6.0☠ 6.8

TV-MA2018 · Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Charlotte Best, Marco Pigossi, Elsa Pataky

Ex-con Cal McTeer's return to her hometown of Orphelin Bay blows the lid off a generations-long conspiracy of silence around murder, drugs and Sirens.

IMDb 6.8TMDB 6.6☠ 6.8

NR2017 · Mystery, Horror · 90m

The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground.

TV-PG2020 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Joel Oulette, Nathan Alexis, Crystle Lightning

An Indigenous teen struggles to support his dysfunctional family as myth, magic, and monsters slowly infiltrate his life.

IMDb 6.9TMDB 7.2☠ 6.8

R1991 · Thriller, Horror, Western · 98m · Ron Lea, Graham Greene, Michael Hogan

A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.

IMDb 6.9TMDB 6.9☠ 6.8

R2017 · Horror, Drama · 121m · Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

IMDb 6.6MC 76🍅 68%TMDB 7.0☠ 6.7

R2018 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 152m · Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

IMDb 6.7MC 64🍅 65%TMDB 6.9☠ 6.7

R1992 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

IMDb 6.7MC 61🍅 79%TMDB 6.7☠ 6.7

TV-PG1995 · Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 6 seasons · Lucy Lawless, Renée O'Connor

Xena is an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent. Accompanied by her comrade-in-arms Gabrielle, the campy couple use their formidable fighting skills to help those who are unable to defend themselves.

IMDb 6.8🍅 63%TMDB 7.6☠ 6.7

NR2020 · Horror, Drama · 93m · Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Wunmi Mosaku, Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba

After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.

IMDb 6.4MC 72🍅 100%TMDB 6.4☠ 6.7

PG1983 · Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller · 95m · Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd

In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?

IMDb 6.7MC 68🍅 63%TMDB 6.5☠ 6.7

NR1961 · Thriller, Mystery, Romance · 84m · Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir

A young sailor falls in love with a mysterious woman performing as a mermaid on the local pier. As they become entwined, he comes to suspect the woman might be a real mermaid who lures men to a watery death during the full moon. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2007.

IMDb 6.4🍅 86%TMDB 6.4☠ 6.7

2025 · Horror · 85m · Patricia Heaton, Corbin Bernsen, Katie Parker

At the edge of postpartum psychosis, new mother Harper moves in with her own mother at their family's rural farmhouse. Soon she finds herself hunted by a threatening monster who has designs on her child.

🍅 83%TMDB 5.7☠ 6.7

1989 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 103m · Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie, Mary-Anne Fahey

In 1950s Australia, young Celia is growing up with a sense of isolation and mistrust of the world that surrounds her. Her mother and father won't let her play with the kids next door because their parents are communists. Then her pet bunny is taken away because of rabbit overpopulation. And, more traumatizing yet, when her grandmother dies, she's the one to discover the corpse. To cope, she retreats into elaborate fantasies.

1990 · Documentary, War & Politics · 1 season · Patrick Allen

Documents both the influences of alternative belief systems on the Nazi ideology and Hitler's personal philosophy, and the history and development of the ideas and symbols that would be used along with eugenicist racial politics to perpetrate the murder and oppression of millions during World War II.

R1981 · Horror · 91m · Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan

After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.

IMDb 6.5MC 68🍅 76%TMDB 6.6☠ 6.6

R1999 · Adventure, Western, Horror · 101m · Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette

After arriving at his new, remote Army outpost, Capt. John Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide – a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.

IMDb 6.9MC 46🍅 52%TMDB 6.8☠ 6.6

NR2016 · Horror, Comedy, Romance · 121m · Samantha Robinson, Gian Keys, Laura Waddell

A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.

IMDb 6.2MC 82🍅 95%TMDB 6.4☠ 6.6