Folk horror films

1999 film by Tim Burton

Sinners is a 2025 American horror film produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta, it stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are confronted by a supernatural evil. The film co-stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, and Delroy Lindo.

1999 film directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez

Midsommar is a 2019 folk horror film written and directed by Ari Aster. It stars Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor as an American couple who are drawn into a violent cult in rural Sweden. Supporting actors include William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, and Will Poulter.

Hereditary is a 2018 American supernatural psychological horror film written and directed by Ari Aster. Starring Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne, the film follows Annie Graham, a grieving miniature artist who uncovers disturbing secrets about her recently deceased mother. She, along with her husband Steve and their children, Peter and Charlie, are subsequently tormented by sinister occurrences.

2015 film directed by Robert Eggers

1973 film directed by Robin Hardy

2005 film by Iain Softley

1968 Swedish film by Ingmar Bergman

2019 film directed by André Øvredal

2006 film by Neil LaBute

1984 film directed by Fritz Kiersch

1967 film by Konstantin Yershov

Häxan (, The Witch; Heksen , The Witch; English: The Witches; released in the US in 1968 as Witchcraft Through the Ages) is a 1922 Swedish-Danish silent horror essay film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Consisting partly of documentary-style storytelling as well as dramatized narrative sequences, the film purports to chart the historical roots and superstitions surrounding witchcraft, beginning in the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Based partly on Christensen's own study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan proposes that such witch

2019 film directed by Vincenzo Natali

2016 South Korean film by Na Hong-jin

2017 film by David Bruckner

1964 Japanese film by Masaki Kobayashi

2010 film directed by Christopher Smith

2021 film directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson

2021 film directed by Mike P. Nelson

2018 film directed by Gareth Evans

1964 Japanese film by Kaneto Shindō

1988 film by Stan Winston

1966 film by Harold P. Warren

1988 film by Wes Craven

1981 film by Wes Craven

2022 film directed by Alex Garland

1984 film by Neil Jordan

1941 film by William Dieterle

2020 film directed by Oz Perkins

2020 film by Remi Weekes

1957 British horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur

2005 film by Courtney Solomon

1968 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher

1968 film directed by Michael Reeves

1969 film by Jesús Franco

1990 film by William Friedkin

2021 film directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun

Leptirica () is a 1973 Yugoslav folk horror TV-film, directed by Serbian and Yugoslav director Đorđe Kadijević and based on the short story "After Ninety Years" (1880) by Serbian writer Milovan Glišić.

Tumbbad is a 2018 period folk horror film directed by Rahi Anil Barve and Anand Gandhi, and written by Mitesh Shah, Adesh Prasad, Barve, and Anand Gandhi. It stars Sohum Shah in the lead role as Vinayak Rao, and follows the story of his search for a hidden 20th century treasure in the Indian village of Tumbbad, Maharashtra.

1966 film by J. Lee Thompson

1971 film by Piers Haggard

2022 film directed by Goran Stolevski

1966 film by John Gilling

2021 film directed by William Eubank

1988 film by Ken Russell

2019 film directed by Lee Cronin

1952 film

1909 film by Vasily Goncharov

2021 film directed by Ben Wheatley

2020 film directed by Kurt Wimmer

2024 film directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari

2005 film by John Fawcett

2011 film by Ben Wheatley

2022 film directed by Kevin Ko

2024 film directed by Damian Mc Carthy

1982 film directed by Larry Cohen

Alucarda (Spanish: Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas, or Alucarda, the daughter of darkness) is a 1977 Mexican supernatural horror film directed by Juan López Moctezuma, and starring Tina Romero, Claudio Brook, Susana Kamini, and David Silva. A loose adaptation of Carmilla (1872), it revolves around two teenage orphan girls living in a Catholic convent, who unleash a demonic force and become possessed. Since its release, Alucarda has achieved cult status.

2024 film directed by Thordur Palsson