The best and scariest folk horror movies ever made include The Wicker Man, Midsommar, and Sleepy Hollow.
The term "folk horror" might not be the easiest thing to describe, but it's the type of horror movie where you know it when you see it. There's even a recent documentary called Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror that spends a little over three hours explaining what this type of horror subgenre is and exploring some significant films within it.
It's notable for being the most successful independent film of its year, and for the committed performances by a cast that's led by Samuel L. Jackson and Lynn Whitfield. It's an intense and harrowing movie at times, perhaps more drama than horror, but certainly maintaining some elements of folk horror regardless .
21 'The Serpent and the Rainbow' No one will deny that Wes Craven is a master of horror; he created the character of Freddy Krueger, after all - a villainous presence that haunts dreams and murders within them, too. But while Craven's well-known for the series that Kruger belongs to - Nightmare on Elm Street - as well as the Scream franchise, other movies of his like The Serpent and the Rainbow are slightly less popular.
19 'Alucarda' 1977 was a very good year for the horror genre, with Alucarda being one of many notable scary movies that saw release during that year. It manages to include a great deal within its brief 78-minute runtime, having themes around Satanism, scenes of demonic possession, and even a bit of vampire-related horror thrown in for good measure.
Case in point: 2011's Kill List, which starts off feeling like a crime movie about a hitman tasked with three different killings, but ends up becoming something darker, more surreal, and overall closer to a horror film. It's a very strange and grimy film that's not going to be for everything, but as a movie that perhaps helped the folk horror subgenre gain some more recognition in the early 2010s, it's certainly notable.
14 'Men' Alex Garland's a writer/director who's made films with some challenging aspects before, but nothing he's done has proven quite as polarizing and unusual as 2022's Men. You might not suspect that from the premise, though, because Men starts simply enough, with a story that sees a young woman trying to heal emotionally after a personal tragedy, and going to stay in the English countryside for a while.
Ordinary lambs aren't truly scary of course, so it's no surprise to find that the "lamb" in Lamb isn't your typical kind of lamb, and may well be something that can place the two lead characters in danger. It's a haunting and even upsetting kind of film, but certainly works as a very dramatic take on the folk horror subgenre.
9 'Midsommar' Of all the recent folk horror movies from the 2010s, few are as well-known and celebrated as Midsommar. This was Ari Aster's second feature film, and saw him exploring familiar themes around grief and tragedy, but centering the main storyline on a strained relationship, and the way disaster strikes when the central couple - plus some friends - go on a trip to Sweden.
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