
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

Apostle
›R2018 · Horror, Mystery · 129m · Dan Stevens, Michael Sheen, Lucy Boynton
In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.

The Empty Man
›R2020 · Horror, Mystery · 137m · James Badge Dale, Marin Ireland, Sasha Frolova
On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

Good Boy
›PG-132025 · Horror · 73m · Indy, Shane Jensen, Arielle Friedman
A loyal dog moves to a rural family home with his owner Todd, only to discover supernatural forces lurking in the shadows. As dark entities threaten his human companion, the brave pup must fight to protect the one he loves most.

The Serpent and the Rainbow
›R1988 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.

Undertow
›R2004 · Drama, Thriller · 108m · Jamie Bell, Josh Lucas, Dermot Mulroney
The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.

RequiemSeries
›TV-MA2018 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Lydia Wilson, Joel Fry, Joanna Scanlan
In 1994, a toddler disappeared from a small Welsh village, never to be seen again. 23 years later, in London, the mother of rising cello star Matilda Gray commits suicide, without apparent reason. Among her possessions, Matilda discovers tantalising evidence, linking her mother to the Welsh girl's disappearance all those years ago.

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
›2005 · Horror, Comedy · 87m · Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way into the real world and confront their creators. From present day Soho to the fictional film world of 17th Century Britain, the residents must overcome countless bizarre obstacles in their bid to return Royston Vasey to safety.

The Crucifix: Blood of the Exorcist
›2025 · Horror · 92m · Hannaj Bang Bendz, Dean Kilbey, Nicholas Anscombe
A gruesome discovery in the grounds of their new home plunges a young couple into a maelstrom of spiritual possession, pagan rituals, Viking battles, and violent revenge.

Alma & the Wolf
›R2025 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Ethan Embry, Li Jun Li, Mather Zickel
After a violent animal attack, paranoia spreads through Spiral Creek. But when Deputy Ren Accord gets too close, his son vanishes, and reality begins to fracture.

Attachment
›2022 · Horror, Romance · 105m · Josephine Park, Ellie Kendrick, Sofie Gråbøl
Maja, a Danish actress past her prime, falls in love with Leah, a young Jewish academic from London. Leah suffers a mysterious seizure, and Maja returns with her to London. There, she meets Leah’s mother, an overbearing woman who could hold dark secrets.

Shaman
›R2025 · Horror · 93m · Sara Canning, Daniel Gillies, Jett Klyne
A Missionary converting an Indigenous Community in a remote Ecuadorian volcano must come to terms with her own Faith when her son is possessed by dark forces older than her own religion.

Satanic Hispanics
›R2022 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 113m · Efren Ramirez, Greg Grunberg, Sonya Eddy
When police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor. He’s known as The Traveler, and when they take him to the station for questioning, he tells them those lands are full of magic and talks about the horrors he’s encountered in his long time on this earth, about portals to other worlds, mythical creatures, demons and the undead. Stories about Latin American legends.

Where the Devil Roams
›2023 · Horror · 93m · Zelda Adams, Toby Poser, John Adams
A family of murderous sideshow performers traverse the harsh conditions of a Depression-era America in a bloody deal with the Devil.

Crowhaven Farm
›1970 · Horror, TV Movie · 74m · Hope Lange, Paul Burke, Lloyd Bochner
A couple, Maggie and Ben Porter, inherit an old farmhouse and move in, hoping to reinvigorate their marriage. When they learn the home was occupied long ago by a woman who was executed for practicing witchcraft, Maggie begins to have nightmares about her.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
›PG-132019 · Horror, Mystery · 108m · Zoe Colletti, Dean Norris, Michael Garza
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

Dagon
›2001 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño
A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's secret..they worship Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea...and Dagon's unholy offspring are on the loose...

Censor
›NR2021 · Horror, Mystery · 84m · Niamh Algar, Michael Smiley, Nicholas Burns
A screener at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), who has earned an unsavory reputation for being the strictest censor of violent films, begins to spiral out of control after viewing a low-budget horror with similarities to the disappearance of her sister.

The Cursed
›R2021 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 111m · Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie
In the late 19th century, a brutal land baron slaughters a Roma clan, unleashing a curse on his family and village. In the days that follow, the townspeople are plagued by nightmares, the baron's son goes missing, and a boy is found murdered. The locals suspect a wild animal, but a visiting pathologist warns of a more sinister presence lurking in the woods.

The Reptile
›1966 · Horror · 90m · Noel Willman, Jennifer Daniel, Ray Barrett
Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by a lethal reptilian bite. They befriend a young woman Anna whose tyrannical father controls her life and, as they discover that others in the village have suffered a similar fate, their investigations lead to Anna. What they uncover is a victim of the most terrifying legacy... a destiny of mutilation and murder.

Eyes of Fire
›R1983 · Horror, Drama · 86m · Dennis Lipscomb, Guy Boyd, Rebecca Stanley
In 1750, an adulterous preacher is ejected from a small British colony with his motley crew of followers, who make their way downriver to establish a new settlement of their own beyond the western frontier.

BeastMasterSeries
›TV-PG1999 · Action & Adventure, Mystery, Drama · 3 seasons · Daniel Goddard, Jackson Raine
BeastMaster chronicles the adventures of Dar, the last surviving male of the storied Sula tribe, who is blessed with the ability to communicate telepathically with the animals of his ancient world. Also endowed with the strength, courage and fighting skills of a great warrior, he uses his gifts to defend all living creatures oppressed by the forces of evil.

SinbadSeries
›TV-PG2012 · Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Elliot Knight, Marama Corlett, Elliot Cowan
Sinbad accidentally kills the son of the powerful Lord Akbari in a fist fight. As recompense for the blood debt, Sinbad's brother is killed in front of his eyes. Sinbad escapes, but his grandmother uses a magic talisman to curse him for the death of his brother. The curse prevents Sinbad from staying on land for more than one day; if he tarries the talisman will choke him to death. This prohibition against remaining on land leads to a life of adventure at sea that holds many wonders. Sinbad is unaware that he is still being hunted by Lord Akbari, who does not consider Sinbad's brother's death as sufficient payment of the blood debt.

Weird Woman
›1944 · Horror, Mystery · 64m · Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Gwynne, Evelyn Ankers
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?

The Stranglers of Bombay
›NR1959 · Thriller, Crime, Horror · 80m · Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson, Andrew Cruickshank
In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments of the British East-Indian Tea Company. As the British military leaders play down the implications of the piracy and disappearances, a lone captain realizes that they are not just coincidence and sets out to uncover the source of the deviltry, at the risk of his career. Based on history.
