Tag: Folk Horror

Folk horror grows dread from old soil: rural communities, older beliefs, and outsiders who should have kept driving. This tag collects reviews of folk horror and essays on why the land itself feels haunted in the best of it.

2020s

Sinners (2025)

June 6, 2026

Ryan Coogler's Jim Crow-era vampire film uses the genre to explore Black art and cultural memory. It establishes the stakes of everything that follows.

1990s

Candyman (1992)

May 19, 2026

Bernard Rose adapts Clive Barker's story about a graduate student researching an urban legend that summons a hook-handed killer. Candyman is Bernard Rose's 1992 American supernatural horror film adapted from Clive Barker's short story 'The Forbidden', depicting a graduate student…

2010s

Krampus (2015)

May 19, 2026

A dysfunctional family's hostile Christmas attracts the attention of the anti-Santa demon Krampus, who arrives with monstrous helpers. Krampus is Michael Dougherty's 2015 American horror-comedy depicting a dysfunctional family's hostile Christmas attracting the attention of the anti-Santa demon Krampus, who…

1940s

The Wolf Man (1941)

May 19, 2026

The Wolf Man is George Waggner's 1941 American horror film depicting Larry Talbot, an American returning to his ancestral Welsh village, who is bitten by a werewolf in the local woods and discovers he has been infected with the curse…

1980s

The Fog (1980)

May 19, 2026

John Carpenter directs the story of a California coastal town haunted by the vengeful ghosts of mariners killed a century earlier. The Fog is John Carpenter's 1980 American horror film depicting a California coastal town haunted on its centennial by…