Folk horror is a subgenre of horror film and horror fiction that uses elements of folklore to invoke fear and foreboding. Typical elements include a rural...
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elements include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk beliefs. Horror films have existed for more than a century. Early inspirations from...
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Indonesian horror games based on folklore story, such as DreadOut and Pamali: Indonesian Folklore Horror Cinema of Indonesia Folk horror "Horror artist Suzanna...
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folk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Folk or Folks may refer to: Nation People Folklore Folk art Folk dance Folk hero Folk horror Folk music Folk...
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Midsommar (category Folk horror films)
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...
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Munjya (film) (category Folk horror films)
Munjya is a 2024 Indian Hindi-language comedy horror film directed by Aditya Sarpotdar and starring Sharvari, Abhay Verma, Sathyaraj and Mona Singh. The...
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their 'Best Films to watch in 2024', Dagr is a British found footage folk horror set in Wales gently inspired by the likes of The Blair Witch Project...
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Starve Acre (category 2023 horror films)
Starve Acre is a 2023 British folk horror film written and directed by Daniel Kokotajlo, based upon the 2019 novel of the same name by Andrew Michael...
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Moloch (2022 film) (category Folk horror films)
Moloch is a 2022 Dutch folk horror film directed by Nico van den Brink, starring Sallie Harmsen and Alexandre Willaume. The film focuses on 38 year old...
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Hellboy: The Crooked Man (category Superhero horror films)
series and depict a younger and wandering version of Hellboy with a folk horror influence similar to the comics; Taylor also confirmed that the film...
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Unwelcome (film) (category Folk horror films)
Unwelcome is a 2023 folk horror film directed by Jon Wright, co-written by Wright and Mark Stay. The film stars Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth, Jamie-Lee...
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Bramayugam (category Folk horror films)
(transl. The age of madness) is a 2024 Indian Malayalam-language period folk horror film written and directed by Rahul Sadasivan and jointly produced by...
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Enys Men (category Folk horror films)
(Cornish for 'Stone Island') is a 2022 British experimental psychological folk horror film shot, composed, written and directed by Mark Jenkin. Shot on 16...
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involving ghosts (yūrei) and poltergeists. Other Japanese horror fiction contains themes of folk religion such as possession, exorcism, shamanism, precognition...
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The Wait (2023 film) (category Folk horror films)
Anticipated Horror Movies of Fall 2023". Time. Mayorga, Emilio (2 November 2022). "Film Factory falls for F. Javier Gutiérrez's folk horror 'The Wait'...
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believe in black magic?". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 June 2018. Horror Revival, Folk. Folk Horror Revival: Harvest Hymns. Volume I- Twisted Roots. p. 59. Pell...
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Tumbbad (category Folk horror films)
Tumbbad is a 2018 Hindi-language folk horror film directed by Rahi Anil Barve. Additionally, Anand Gandhi served as the creative director, and Adesh Prasad...
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (category Horror video games)
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror point-and-click adventure game developed by Cloak and Dagger Games and published by Wadjet Eye Games in...
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Hellbender (film) (category Folk horror films)
trippy folk horror is engaging family affair". The Guardian. Retrieved July 16, 2022. Rife, Katie (February 23, 2022). "Hellbender review: This horror drama...
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Men (2022 film) (category Folk horror films)
Men is a 2022 British folk horror film written and directed by Alex Garland. It stars Jessie Buckley as a widowed woman who travels on holiday to a countryside...
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interactive science fiction film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018), and the folk horror film Midsommar (2019). In 2021, he had a leading role in the Hulu miniseries...
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Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological...
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three-hour documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, premiered at SXSW 2021 where it won the Midnighters Audience Award....
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Incantation (film) (category Folk horror films)
(Chinese: 咒; pinyin: Zhòu) is a 2022 Taiwanese found footage supernatural folk horror film directed by Kevin Ko, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Chang...
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mysterious woman who is always 73 yards away from her. Described by Davies as folk horror, "73 Yards" was the first episode of the fourteenth series to be filmed...
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Lamb (2021 film) (category Folk horror films)
Lamb (Icelandic: Dýrið, lit. 'The animal') is a 2021 folk horror film directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Sjón. The...
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The Witch (2015 film) (category Folk horror films)
(stylized as The VVitch, and subtitled A New-England Folktale) is a 2015 folk horror film written and directed by Robert Eggers in his feature directorial...
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emotional range, a bleak, meandering and muddy-soled mix of fairy tale and folk horror." Kirkus Reviews compared the novel to Moshfegh's earlier works and found...
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The Ritual (2017 film) (category Folk horror films)
The Ritual is a 2017 British supernatural folk horror film directed by David Bruckner and written by Joe Barton. Based on the 2011 novel of the same name...
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The Last Thing Mary Saw (category Folk horror films)
The Last Thing Mary Saw is a 2021 American folk horror written and directed by Edoardo Vitaletti. Set in 1843, the film follows the youngest daughter...
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