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 ...

Folk horror is having a renaissance. Last year, both The Vourdalak and The Devil’s Bath ranked on my Top 10 international horror movies of the year list. They’re both incredible, and I’m naturally ...

Spooky cinema is at an all-time commercial peak, with movies about vampires, evil spirits and haunted rotary phones raking in more than $1 billion at the domestic box office in 2025. But in recent ...

Black Mandala has shared a poster and trailer for Lily’s Ritual, the Spanish folk horror from director Manu Herrera. The film ...

Tubi has become a reliable source for horror hidden gems, so it didn’t surprise me when I found one of the most disturbing folk horror films of the 2010s tucked away in its catalog. If you’ve been ...

The 1952 Finnish movie The White Reindeer is one of the great lost classics of folk horror. Although it won prizes at Cannes and the Golden Globes in its day, it was largely forgotten until a gorgeous ...

Folk horror is a subgenre that draws its terror from the clash between modern society and ancient traditions. Its stories are rooted in the soil of isolated ...

Katherine is a Horror Features author for Collider, but loves movies in (almost) all shapes and genres. She went to school in Virginia for English and Film Studies before heading out to Las Vegas. She ...

Miranda Adama is a writer, variety streamer, and all-around creative who loves violence on screen and what it says about pop culture. She's the host of Be Seeing You: A John Wick Podcast and has been ...

Saidam Baryl and Argentic Productions have signed a co-production agreement on “Thaw,” a folk-horror feature written and directed by Yakutian filmmaker Stepan Burnashev. The deal, signed at the ...