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
Pumpkinhead
›R1988 · Fantasy, Horror · 86m · Lance Henriksen, Jeff East, John D'Aquino
When a group of teenagers inadvertently kill his only son, Ed Harley seeks the powers of a backwoods witch to bring the child back to life.
1BR
›R2019 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 90m · Nicole Brydon Bloom, Giles Matthey, Taylor Nichols
When Sarah lucks into a sweet one-bedroom at Asilo Del Mar Apartments in Los Angeles, she thinks she's hit the jackpot. It's got plenty of space, friendly tenants, group BBQs and even a cute neighbour next door. All is not what it seems: loud noises start keeping her awake at night; her cat is missing; everyone seems to be a little too helpful and friendly, except for the weirdo, Lester. Soon, Sarah learns she didn't choose this apartment — it chose her.
Pyewacket
›NR2017 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Laurie Holden, Nicole Muñoz, Chloe Rose
A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to invoke a witch to kill her mother.
The Burrowers
›R2008 · Horror, Western · 96m · Doug Hutchison, Clancy Brown, William Mapother
It is 1879 in the Dakota Territories, a band of men who set out to find and recover a family of settlers that has mysteriously vanished from their home. Expecting the offenders to be a band of fierce natives, but they soon discover that the real enemy stalks them from below.
There's Something in the Barn
›R2023 · Horror, Comedy, Fantasy · 100m · Martin Starr, Amrita Acharia, Kiran Shah
An American family fulfills their dream of moving back to their roots after inheriting a remote cabin in the mountains of Norway. But there's a surprise waiting for them.
Nocebo
›2022 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 96m · Eva Green, Mark Strong, Chai Fonacier
A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
The Damned
›R2025 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 89m · Odessa Young, Joe Cole, Siobhan Finneran
A 19th-century widow has to make an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a foreign ship sinks off the coast of her Icelandic fishing village.
Blood Quantum
›NR2019 · Horror · 98m · Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.
Dust Devil
›R1992 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 103m · Robert John Burke, Chelsea Field, Marianne Sägebrecht
A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
Just Before Dawn
›R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Chris Lemmon
In the Oregon mountains, a pair of hunters encounter a machete-wielding killer in an abandoned church. Meanwhile, five campers arrive to examine some property one of them has inherited but are warned by the forest ranger not to venture forth. Soon after they set up camp, they begin hearing strange noises, encounter a mysterious singing girl and start disappearing one by one.
I Drink Your Blood
›R1971 · Horror · 83m · Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury, Jadin Wong, Rhonda Fultz
A group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy, whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them, tries to get even - with deadly results.
Dig Two Graves
›2014 · Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy · 85m · Ted Levine, Samantha Isler, Danny Goldring
A girl's obsession with her brother's disappearance leads her on a nightmarish journey through a small town's Gothic landscape where she is faced with a deadly proposition. How far will she go to save the people she loves?
Enys Men
›NR2023 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Mary Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Flo Crowe
A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
Pure
›2019 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 90m · Jahkara Smith, McKaley Miller, Scott Porter
Teen girls perform a secret ritual at a Purity Retreat and, when one of them begins to see a supernatural entity, the terrifying question becomes what is more dangerous: the demon they’ve unleashed, or the pressure of their controlling fathers.
The Moor
›2024 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 120m · Sophia La Porta, David Edward-Robertson, Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips
Claire is approached by the father of her murdered childhood friend to help investigate the haunted moor he believes is his son's final resting place.
Without Name
›2017 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 93m · Alan McKenna, Niamh Algar, James Browne
A land surveyor working in an unnamed woodland area is disturbed and beguiled by a strange silhouette that moves amongst the trees.
Curse of Crom: The Legend of Halloween
›2022 · Fantasy, Horror · 92m · Chelsea Jurkiewicz, Tanner Gillman, Colin Cunningham
High school teenagers accidentally unleash an ancient Irish entity on their hometown and must stop it before midnight on Halloween.
R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead
›PG-132025 · Horror, Fantasy · 91m · Bean Reid, Adeline Lo, Seth Isaac Johnson
When his brother disappears and everyone forgets he existed, Sam must unravel the mystery before Finn is gone forever.
Butter on the Latch
›2013 · Horror, Drama, Fantasy · 72m · Isolde Chae-Lawrence, Sarah Small, Charlie Hewson
Sarah and Isolde share an interest in the traditional music and dance of the Balkans, but it turns out that shared interests don’t always unite them. Their trip, initially a fun bonding experience, takes a southward turn when Sarah becomes interested in handsome fellow camper Steph. A seemingly innocent romantic overture touches off an abrupt shift in the dynamic between the two girlfriends, steering a previously ecstatic camp outing down a psychological rabbit hole.
Antlers
›R2021 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 99m · Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Jeremy T. Thomas
A small-town Oregon teacher and her brother, the local sheriff, discover a young student is harbouring a dangerous secret that could have frightening consequences.
The Last Exorcism
›PG-132010 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 87m · Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr
After years of performing “exorcisms” and taking believers’ money, Reverend Marcus travels to rural Louisiana with a film crew so he can dispel what he believes is the myth of demonic possession. The dynamic reverend is certain that this will be another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic but instead comes upon the blood-soaked farm of the Sweetzer family and a true evil he would have never thought imaginable.
The Hole in the Ground
›R2019 · Horror · 90m · Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, James Cosmo
Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.
The Hallow
›NR2015 · Horror, Fantasy · 97m · Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novaković, Michael McElhatton
Deep within the darkness of secluded forest land in rural Ireland dwells an ancient evil. Feared by the nearby superstitious villagers as cursed creatures who prey upon the lost, their secrets have been kept from civilization and remain on their hallowed ground. But when a conservationist from London moves in with his wife and infant child in order to survey the land for future construction, his actions unwittingly disturb the horde of demonic forces. Alone in a remote wilderness, he must now ensure his family's survival from their relentless attacks.
Cuckoo
›R2024 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 103m · Hunter Schafer, Jan Bluthardt, Marton Csokas
After reluctantly moving to the German Alps with her father and his new family, Gretchen discovers that their new town hides sinister secrets, as she's plagued by strange noises and frightening visions of a woman pursuing her.