Sinners (2025)
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.
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.
1990sThe Blair Witch Project (1999)
Three student filmmakers documenting a Maryland witch legend get lost in the woods, in the found-footage horror pioneer. The Blair Witch Project is Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez's 1999 American found-footage horror film depicting three student filmmakers who disappear in…
1990sCandyman (1992)
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…
2010sKrampus (2015)
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…
1940sThe Wolf Man (1941)
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…
1980sThe Fog (1980)
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…
2020s
2010sMidsommar (2019)
Aster's 2019 Swedish cult drama. Florence Pugh as a grieving woman dragged to a midsummer festival.
2010sThe Witch (2015)
1630s New England Puritan family unraveling in the woods. The Witch is Robert Eggers's 2015 American indie horror and the director's debut feature.
2010sThe Wailing (2016)
Na Hong-jin's 2016 Korean rural-horror. A village cop investigates a stranger.
1990sPrincess Mononoke (1997)
Miyazaki's 1997 environmental fantasy. Iron age Japan, forest gods, no clear villain.