Folk Horror on Film
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I don’t like folk horror. I don’t like it! When I turn on a horror movie, I would prefer it not be about how rural townsfolk participate in an annual pagan festival that takes a mu...
Folk Horror is really having a moment right now, because, honestly, what’s scarier than small towns full of small people? Whether it’s a metaphor for the stifling conformity of vil...
Didier Konings’ grim folk-horror, Heresy, takes one of mankind’s oldest warnings—don’t go into the woods—and turns it inside out. Sometimes the creature... The post Heresy first ap...
Netherwood is a sublime, shocking bonechiller that doubles as an intriguing potted history of folklore, dark arts and seaside town counterculture. The post The spectre of Mr Crowle...
Part folk record, part pagan fever dream, The Wicker Man’s soundtrack is so steeped in sex, fertility, ritual and ancient melody that listening to it feels like stumbling upon some...
I think most horror movies have a way of playing with our fears. Those fears can stem from rituals, superstitions, or even habits. One thing is true: sometimes the scariest stories...
People will do almost anything for a story they believe is true. They’ll keep a ritual nobody remembers the reason for, avoid a road after dark, or decide a neighbor is dangerous b...
Frank LaLoggia’s 1981 cult oddity is now part of the Shudder library.
IT’S the season when something wicked this way comes, when farms all over the place stick pumpkins in a field and invite you to pay to come to clear them up
MotelX – Portugal’s only film festival dedicated to horror – hopes to inspire local film-makers by showcasing world-class scares. Now in its 20th edition, its directors say truly n...
Belbury Poly's brilliant 2012 album The Belbury Tales (previously at Boing Boing) was a high point of hauntology, right at the point it wandered into folk horror and related aesthe...
Somebody always decides what counts as heresy. In Didier Konings’ Heresy, originally released in the Netherlands as Witte Wieven, that somebody is nearly always a man. Frieda lives...
Sometimes films are a bit hard to categorize. They flirt with being one thing or another and yet don’t fully commit in either direction. It can make them difficult to qualify, but...
If you were intrigued by the mind trip of random doors leading to a liminal space, along with your subconscious in Backrooms, you might be inclined to tune in to Undertone, another...
Image courtesy of A24 Witchcraft has been part of horror cinema for over a century, with filmmakers mining centuries of superstition and occult practice for stories that are parti...
Mark Beal’s stunning “Marginalia” gets its name from the little doodles that sometimes appear in the margins of medieval texts. The post Nun Horror Film ‘Marginalia’ Imagines Suspi...
Hammer Films has released the teaser trailer for Ithaqua, a snowbound folk horror built around a creature August Derleth introduced back in 1933. The post Hammer’s ‘Ithaqua’ Traile...
These are the horror books set in the woods that we keep recommending, from a 1983 classic about a path nobody should walk to three new novels from 2026. Camps, cabins and trails w...
Beyond the crumbling mansions and churchyards of classic Gothic fiction, global gothic horror invites readers to understand terror from a different perspective.
A sinister Gothic folk horror from the bestselling author of The Ghosts of Merry Hall, in which a family in modern day England find their new home beset by the terrifying ghosts of...
Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: Trailer for folk horror Pendulum starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Phoebe Dynevor and Jacki Weaver Vertical has shared a trailer for Pe...
If you’ve spent any time in horror fandom, you know the genre has a long, beautiful history of blurring the line between fiction and reality. Blair Witch handed out missing-person...
I love a witch movie. It is one of my favorite little corners of the horror genre. They can be moody and thought provoking (The Witch, She Will), they can be colorful and strange (...
The movies that know that little thing that terrifies you and how to exploit it The post Horror Movies That Prey on Your Everyday Fears appeared first on Reactor.
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