Best Folk Horror Movies
Folk horror finds terror in isolated villages, old rites and the pull of the land.
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Insidious: Out of the Further (2026)
Rated 7.7 on TMDB
Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.
See where it’s streamingWeapons (2025)
Rated 7.3 on TMDB
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
See where it’s streamingLee Cronin's The Mummy (2026)
Rated 7.8 on TMDB
The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns…
See where it’s streamingHokum (2026)
Rated 6.8 on TMDB
When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite.
See where it’s streamingMidsommar (2019)
Rated 7.1 on TMDB
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them.
See where it’s streaming28 Years Later (2025)
Rated 6.6 on TMDB
Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway.
See where it’s streaming28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
Rated 7.1 on TMDB
Dr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship - with consequences that could change the world as they know it - and Spike's encounter with Jimmy Crystal becomes a nightmare he can't escape.
See where it’s streamingReady or Not: Here I Come (2026)
Rated 7.5 on TMDB
Moments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith at her side.
See where it’s streamingHereditary (2018)
Rated 7.3 on TMDB
When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.
See where it’s streamingReady or Not (2019)
Rated 7.1 on TMDB
A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.
See where it’s streamingThe Witch (2016)
Rated 7.0 on TMDB
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen.
See where it’s streamingNightborn (2026)
Rated 5.9 on TMDB
In Finnish forest, Saga and her husband Jon embark on a new chapter as parents. But Saga's joy is overshadowed by a chilling suspicion about their newborn, unbeknownst to Jon, causing a rift as she…
See where it’s streamingThey Will Kill You (2026)
Rated 6.9 on TMDB
A woman answers a help wanted ad to be a housekeeper in a mysterious New York City high-rise, unaware that she is entering a community that has seen a number of disappearances over the years and may…
See where it’s streamingMartyrs (2008)
Rated 7.3 on TMDB
A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell…
See where it’s streamingThe Wailing (2016)
Rated 7.4 on TMDB
A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
See where it’s streamingHansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
Rated 6.1 on TMDB
After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution.
See where it’s streamingThe Blair Witch Project (1999)
Rated 6.4 on TMDB
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
See where it’s streamingExhuma (2024)
Rated 7.6 on TMDB
After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those…
See where it’s streamingBring Her Back (2025)
Rated 7.3 on TMDB
Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.
See where it’s streamingCannibal Holocaust (1980)
Rated 6.3 on TMDB
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal…
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