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Midsommar
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.
The Woman in Black
2012 film directed by James Watkins
Antichrist
2009 film directed by Lars von Trier
Hour of the Wolf
1968 Swedish film by Ingmar Bergman
The Phantom Carriage
1921 film by Victor Sjöström
The House That Jack Built
2018 film directed by Lars von Trier
Häxan
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
The Girl with the Needle
2024 film directed by Magnus von Horn
Face to Face
1976 film by Ingmar Bergman
Breaking Surface
2020 film by Joachim Hedén
Koko-di Koko-da
2019 film directed by Johannes Nyholm
The Devil's Plaything
1973 film by Joseph W. Sarno
The Evil Next Door
2020 film directed by Oskar Mellander and Tord Danielsson
The Phantom Carriage
1958 Swedish film by Arne Mattsson
Sleepwalker
2000 film by Johannes Runeborg
Midsommer
Midsommer (English: Midsummer) is a 2003 psychological horror film directed by Carsten Myllerup and written by Rasmus Heisterberg. The story revolves around a group of Danish students who celebrate their graduation in a Swedish forest, when they encounter a supernatural presence seemingly connected to a friend who recently committed suicide. Six months after the film's release in 2003, the film rights were purchased by Bill Block for an American remake. The American version was reset to a Louisiana bayou and released in 2007 with the title Solstice.
Breaking Point
1975 film by Bo Arne Vibenius
Funhouse
2019 film directed by Jason William Lee