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
The Wind
›2018 · Horror, Mystery, Western · 88m · Caitlin Gerard, Ashley Zukerman, Julia Goldani Telles
Lizzy is a tough, resourceful frontierswoman settling a remote stretch of land on the 19th-century American frontier. Isolated from civilization in a desolate wilderness where the wind never stops howling, she begins to sense a sinister presence that seems to be borne of the land itself, and when a newlywed couple arrive at a nearby homestead, their presence amplifies Lizzy's fears, setting into motion a shocking chain of events.
Begotten
›NR1991 · Fantasy, Horror · 72m · Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
The Shrine
›2010 · Horror · 85m · Aaron Ashmore, Cindy Sampson, Meghan Heffern
A group of young journalists investigate a cult said to practice human sacrifice, but their ambitious ways may lead them to becoming the cult's next victims.
Gaia
›R2021 · Horror, Fantasy, Drama · 97m · Monique Rockman, Carel Nel, Alex van Dyk
In the depths of an ancient forest, something has been growing. Something older than humanity itself, and perhaps greater too. When a park ranger discovers a man and his son living wild, she stumbles onto a secret that is about to change the world.
Wake Wood
›R2011 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Aidan Gillen, Eva Birthistle, Timothy Spall
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
The Golem
›R2018 · Horror, Drama · 95m · Hani Furstenberg, Ishai Golan, Lenny Ravich
A re-imagining of the old mystical folklore that follows a woman and a tight-knit Jewish community that is besieged by foreign invaders. She conjures a dangerous creature to protect them but it may be more evil than she ever imagined.
Daddy's Head
›2024 · Horror · 92m · Julia Brown, Nathaniel Martello-White, Charles Aitken
A boy and his stepmother fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy's recently deceased father visits them.
American Gothic
›R1987 · Horror · 90m · Rod Steiger, Yvonne De Carlo, Michael J. Pollard
When six friends fly off on a weekend getaway and are suddenly plagued by engine trouble, they're forced to land on a remote island. Looking for shelter, they're grateful to encounter Ma and Pa and their children - an eccentric family living in the island's backwoods. But what begins as simple hospitality turns into a terrifying race for survival as the friends start disappearing one by one ... and turning up dead.
She Will
›2022 · Drama, Horror · 95m · Alice Krige, Kota Eberhardt, Malcolm McDowell
Veronica, an aging film star, retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse Desi to recover from a double mastectomy. While there, mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.
Turkey Shoot
›R1982 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 93m · Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig
In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the camp. Paul, one of the newest prisoners, is determined not to go down as quietly as the others.
Starve Acre
›NR2024 · Horror, Drama, Fantasy · 98m · Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Arthur Shaw
When their son starts acting strangely, a couple unwittingly allow dark and sinister forces into their home, awakening a long-dormant ancient evil rooted deep in the countryside.
Lullaby
›NR2022 · Horror · 86m · Oona Chaplin, Ramón Rodríguez, Liane Balaban
A new mother discovers a lullaby in an ancient book and soon regards the song as a blessing. But her world transforms into a nightmare when the lullaby brings forth the ancient demon Lilith.
Spellbinder
›R1988 · Horror, Drama, Romance · 99m · Tim Daly, Kelly Preston, Rick Rossovich
After leaving work one night, Los Angeles attorney Jeff Mills and his colleague rescue a young, beautiful woman from an abusive boyfriend. Jeff soon becomes romantically involved with her and embroiled in the web of intrigue that follows her, despite a string of ominous happenstances and repeated warnings from his secretary.
Slapface
›NR2022 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · August Maturo, Mike Manning, Libe Barer
A boy deals with the loss of his mother by creating a relationship with a dangerous monster.
Gwen
›2018 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 84m · Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Maxine Peake, Richard Harrington
A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set in the dark hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
Culture Shock
›NR2019 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 91m · Martha Higareda, Shawn Ashmore, Richard Cabral
A young Mexican woman crosses the border in search of the American dream, only to instead find her worst nightmare lying within.
The Shuttered Room
›1967 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 99m · Gig Young, Carol Lynley, Oliver Reed
In a small island off the American coast, the Whateleys live in an old mill where a mysterious bloody being creates an atmosphere of horror. After her parents get killed by lightning, young Susannah is sent to New York by her aunt Agatha, who wants her to avoid the family curse. Years later Susannah, now married, persuades her husband to spend a holiday in the abandoned mill. Once on the island, Susannah and Mike soon find themselves exposed to the hostility of a gang of thugs led by Ethan, Susannah's brutal cousin.
Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
›NR1985 · Crime, Action, Thriller · 84m · Brian Schulz, Robert Rickman, John Manfredi
Jack Stryker took two bullets in the leg in Vietnam and was carried back by one of his men. When he returns, he tries to live a quiet life in his cabin and go back out with his girlfriend, Sally.
The Woods
›R2006 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Agnes Bruckner, Emma Campbell, Bruce Campbell
In 1965 New England, a troubled girl encounters mysterious happenings in the woods surrounding an isolated girls school that she was sent to by her estranged parents.
Nanny
›R2022 · Horror, Drama · 98m · Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls
Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City, finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage.
The Believers
›R1987 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 114m · Martin Sheen, Helen Shaver, Harley Cross
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.
Spiral
›NR2019 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 87m · Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Ari Cohen, June Laporte
A same-sex couple moves to a small town so they can enjoy a better quality of life and raise their 16 year-old daughter with the best social values. But nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighborhood.
Black Moon
›R1975 · Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart
There is a global gender war between men and women. A teenage girl tries to escape this reality and arrives at a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: sister, brother, many children and an old, bedridden woman who stays in contact with the world through her radio.
Out of Darkness
›R2024 · Adventure, Horror, Thriller · 87m · Safia Oakley-Green, Kit Young, Chuku Modu
In the Old Stone Age, a disparate gang of early humans band together in search of a new land. But when they suspect a malevolent, mystical, being is hunting them down, the clan are forced to confront a danger they never envisaged.