Best Folk Horror
The Wailing is a 2016 South Korean horror film directed by Na Hong-jin. It depicts a police investigation into unexplained deaths and sicknesses occurring within a secluded village, involving a father’s efforts to protect his daughter. The film garnered both commercial and critical acclaim for its n...
Midsommar is a 2019 horror film directed by Ari Aster, centering on an American couple’s involvement with a Swedish cult during the summer solstice. The narrative features a group of supporting actors amidst escalating violence within a rural setting. The film explores themes of ritual and community...
Viy is a 1967 Soviet horror film based on Nikolai Gogol’s “Viy.” The movie presents a supernatural tale rooted in Russian folklore, exploring themes of paganism and ancient evil within a bleak, atmospheric landscape. Shot by Mosfilm, it's notable for its dark fantasy elements and remains a significa...
Published in 2020, "The Only Good Indians" is a horror novel written by American author Stephen Graham Jones, an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Nation. The narrative blends psychological and supernatural horror, following four Indigenous American men who are pursued by a vengeful entity years afte...
The Loney is the debut novel by English writer Andrew Michael Hurley, first published by Tartarus Press in 2014 and issued more widely in 2015. Set around an isolated stretch of the Lancashire coast, it follows two brothers accompanying a religious pilgrimage intended to cure the younger boy. The no...
'Harvest Home' is a horror novel written by actor-turned-author Thomas Tryon, published in 1973. The story follows a New York City advertising executive who relocates his wife and daughter to Cornwall Coombe, an isolated farming village in Connecticut. While the rural community initially appears idy...
Starve Acre is a 2019 folk horror novel written by British author Andrew Michael Hurley. Set in an isolated rural Yorkshire moorland in the 1970s, the narrative follows a couple grieving the death of their young son. As they attempt to renovate their dilapidated estate, they uncover ancient, arcane...
The Hungry Moon is a 1986 folk horror novel by British author Ramsey Campbell. The plot is set in Moonwell, an isolated English moorland town that becomes cut off from the outside world. An ancient, imprisoned evil is accidentally released when a fanatical visiting American evangelist instigates a s...
The Third Day is a 2020 British American psychological mystery miniseries created by Felix Barrett and Dennis Kelly for Sky Atlantic and HBO. Jude Law leads the first three episodes and Naomie Harris the final three, with both stories centered on Osea, an isolated tidal island whose inhabitants main...
A 2019 horror novel by Adam Nevill set on the Devon coast of England, where two characters independently uncover an ancient, predatory evil with deep prehistoric origins.
A 2013 horror novel by Adam Nevill about an antiques cataloguer invited to a reclusive taxidermist's English country estate who discovers deeply disturbing secrets.
Men is a 2022 British folk psychological horror written and directed by Alex Garland, following a woman who takes a holiday in the English countryside.
A 2021 folk horror novel by Adam Nevill about a couple renovating a rural English property who face increasingly malevolent interference from their neighbors.
