Drawing their inspiration from folklore and myth, Eastern Europe has provided some of the most terrifying and beautiful folk horror movies ever made.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Eastern European folklore is filled with tales so horrifying they've inspired a slew of brilliant horror movies. Indeed, folk horror is a very popular genre in modern cinema, routinely drawing inspiration from folk tales and cultural mythology. Eastern European folklore is proving to be a fertile source, and several great folk horror movies have adapted its horrors.
11 November November is a hauntingly beautiful fantasy horror movie by the Estonian director, Rainer Sarnet. Released in 2017, it tells the story of a 19th-century Estonian peasant village that's filled with werewolves, ghosts, and pacts with the Devil. It was based on Andrus Kivirähk's novel Old Barny aka November , which draws from Estonian folklore - particularly the Estonian national epic, "Kalevipoeg.
7 Wild Flowers Wild Flowers is a Czech horror anthology movie based on seven ballads by 19th-century poet, Karel Jaromir Erben. Erben's stories are rooted firmly in Slavic folklore, released under the title A Bouquet of Folk Legends . Wild Flowers is composed of seven stories about witches, ghosts, and curses, which vary quite widely from the slightly spooky to the truly terrifying.
5 The Golem Nearly 100 years after The Golem: How He Came Into The World, an updated rendition was released with 2018's The Golem. It was produced by an Israeli film company, filmed in Ukraine, and set in Lithuania - a country with ties to some version of the golem's folk tale. The Golem is set during an outbreak of the plague in a medieval Jewish community, prompting one resident to build the titular monster as a means of saving her community.
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