Explore 39 folk horror horror films in the ScreamDesk Vault. From classics to modern gems — the definitive folk horror movie guide.
During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an...
In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult....
After a landsman in 18th century England discovers a corpse covered in fur buried in a field, the town becomes infected by "the devil's skin," leading...
A child bride grows up to be an enigmatic woman presiding over her household, harboring a painful past as supernatural murders of men plague her villa...
A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk....
In 1750, an adulterous preacher is ejected from a small British colony with his motley crew of followers, who make their way downriver to establish a ...
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore th...
In the 15th century, a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut feels a dark presence in the woods....
A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she's unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove t...
Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant ...
North Argentina, 1961. Only a few priests and interns remain in a secluded run-down boys' religious boarding school. Suddenly and unannounced, Father ...
A young man wants to marry the beautiful daughter of a landowner who refuses to allow the marriage. To prove his worth, the young man becomes a miller...
A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold ...
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, t...
In a rural village in Thailand, Mak is sent to fight in a war and leaves his pregnant wife, Nak. Mak is injured and barely survives. He returns home t...
The Mighty One offers Nazareno Cruz all the wealth in the world if he agrees to abandon his beloved; otherwise, the curse that supposedly weighs on hi...
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever val...
Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and pol...
After the break-up of a long-term relationship, urban sophisticate Norah seeks refuge in a remote house in the country....
Cut off from civilisation, a single mother puts her children on high alert when they bring home a young girl caked in clay. She tells of spirits and s...
An unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft with unexpected consequences....
An anthology of three violent stories: three friends perform Spirit of the Glass and discover a tragic love triangle; a refrigerator seems to be 'aliv...
After a landsman in 18th century England discovers a corpse covered in fur buried in a field, the town becomes infected by "the devil's skin," leading...
On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightm...
The Feast is a live-action horror short film following siblings Lucy and Sam as they return to their childhood home where their reclusive mother resid...
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect t...
When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable o...
Shortly after the Korean war, a father and a son are wandering through the country and make a stop in a remote village, where strange and dangerous ha...
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them....
A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affectio...
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is furthe...
A cunning fox tricks a wolf again and again....
After escaping from a religious colony in Chile, Maria seeks shelter in a mansion where she’s taken in by two pigs, its only inhabitants. Like in a st...
India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious...
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage'...
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects...
A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish ...
England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness ...
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