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Folk Horror - an inexhaustive list

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  • 22 titles
  • Viy (1967)

    1. Viy

    19671h 17mNot Rated
    7.2 (11K)
    A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
    DirectorsKonstantin ErshovGeorgiy KropachyovAleksandr PtushkoStarsLeonid KuravlyovNatalya VarleyAleksey Glazyrin
  • Dana Andrews and Peggy Cummins in Curse of the Demon (1957)

    2. Curse of the Demon

    19571h 36mApproved
    7.4 (16K)
    American professor John Holden arrives in London for a parapsychology conference, only to find himself investigating the mysterious actions of Devil-worshipper Julian Karswell.
    DirectorJacques TourneurStarsDana AndrewsPeggy CumminsNiall MacGinnis
  • Play for Today (1970)

    3. Play for Today

    Episode: 

    Penda's Fen

    (1974)
    1970–19841h 29mTV Episode
    7.1 (972)
    Late spring 1973, and pastor's son Stephen must come to terms with his own identity amid societal pressure, religious guilt and his own imaginings.
    DirectorAlan ClarkeStarsSpencer BanksJohn AtkinsonGeorgine Anderson
  • The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)

    4. The Blood on Satan's Claw

    19711h 37mR
    6.4 (8.3K)
    In early 18th century England, the children of a village slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.
    DirectorPiers HaggardStarsPatrick WymarkLinda HaydenBarry Andrews
  • The Witches (1966)

    5. The Witches

    19661h 30mApproved
    5.8 (3.4K)
    Following a horrifying experience with the occult in Africa, a schoolteacher moves to a small English village, only to discover that black magic resides there as well.
    DirectorCyril FrankelStarsJoan FontaineKay WalshAlec McCowen
  • Häxan (1922)

    6. Häxan

    19221h 31mNot Rated
    7.6 (18K)
    Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
    DirectorBenjamin ChristensenStarsBenjamin ChristensenElisabeth ChristensenMaren Pedersen
  • The Watcher in the Woods (1980)

    7. The Watcher in the Woods

    19801h 24mPG52Metascore
    6.1 (7.5K)
    When a family moves to a country home, the young girls experience strange happenings that have a link to an occult event years past.
    DirectorsJohn HoughVincent McEveetyStarsBette DavisLynn-Holly JohnsonKyle Richards
  • The Virgin Spring (1960)

    8. The Virgin Spring

    19601h 29mNot Rated
    8.0 (33K)
    In 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.
    DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowBirgitta ValbergGunnel Lindblom
  • Play for Today (1970)

    9. Play for Today

    Episode: 

    Robin Redbreast

    (1970)
    1970–19841h 16mTV Episode
    7.2 (595)
    After a long-term relationship ends, Norah moves to a remote house in the country. The locals are friendly., if eccentric. She starts a flirtatious relationship with young gamekeeper, Rob. But events at a festival have her feeling manipulated. Only later, do the consequences of that relationship leave her trapped in a nightmare.
    DirectorJames MacTaggartStarsAnna CropperAmanda WalkerJulian Holloway
  • Play for Today (1970)

    10. Play for Today

    Episode: 

    Red Shift

    (1978)
    1970–19841h 24mTV Episode
    6.5 (81)
    Three men at three different times in history come to Mow Cop Hill in search of sanctuary from their troubles: a Roman soldier, an English Civil War rebel and a 1970s teenager. Somehow they seem to be linked through an energy within the hill and an axe. Is history doomed to repeat itself or can loving another person free them?
    DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsStephen PetcherLesley DunlopStella Tanner
  • The She-Butterfly (1973)

    11. The She-Butterfly

    19731h 3mTV Movie
    6.8 (3.2K)
    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 in a vampire-infested local mill.
    DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsMirjana NikolicPetar BozovicSlobodan 'Cica' Perovic
  • Anne-Louise Lambert in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

    12. Picnic at Hanging Rock

    19751h 55mPG81Metascore
    7.4 (44K)
    During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.
    DirectorPeter WeirStarsRachel RobertsAnne-Louise LambertVivean Gray
  • Cry of the Banshee (1970)

    13. Cry of the Banshee

    19701h 31mGP
    5.5 (3.1K)
    In 1500s England, a cruel witch-hunting magistrate, who often tortures innocent villagers for his entertainment, runs afoul of a witch who conjures a banshee to kill the magistrate and his family.
    DirectorGordon HesslerStarsVincent PriceElisabeth BergnerEssy Persson
  • Michele Dotrice and Pamela Franklin in And Soon the Darkness (1970)

    14. And Soon the Darkness

    19701h 34mGP
    6.6 (4.4K)
    Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?
    DirectorRobert FuestStarsPamela FranklinMichele DotriceSandor Elès
  • Mark of the Devil (1970)

    15. Mark of the Devil

    19701h 30mR
    6.1 (4.2K)
    In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
    DirectorsMichael ArmstrongAdrian HovenStarsHerbert LomUdo KierOlivera Katarina
  • The Mephisto Waltz (1971)

    16. The Mephisto Waltz

    19711h 55mR47Metascore
    6.1 (3.5K)
    An old, dying satanist arranges to transfer his soul into the body of a young concert pianist.
    DirectorPaul WendkosStarsAlan AldaJacqueline BissetBarbara Parkins
  • Marianna Hill in Messiah of Evil (1974)

    17. Messiah of Evil

    19741h 30mR69Metascore
    6.3 (6.9K)
    A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.
    DirectorsWillard HuyckGloria KatzStarsMichael GreerMarianna HillJoy Bang
  • Burnt Offerings (1976)

    18. Burnt Offerings

    19761h 56mPG48Metascore
    6.4 (14K)
    A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.
    DirectorDan CurtisStarsKaren BlackOliver ReedBurgess Meredith
  • Samantha Gates in The Haunting of Julia (1977)

    19. The Haunting of Julia

    19771h 38mR57Metascore
    6.2 (3.3K)
    After her daughter's death, wealthy American homemaker Julia Lofting moves to London to restart her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the ghosts of other children while mourning for her own.
    DirectorRichard LoncraineStarsMia FarrowKeir DulleaTom Conti
  • Lesley Taplin in Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)

    20. Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural

    19731h 20mPG49Metascore
    6.1 (2.7K)
    A young girl who returns to her hometown to see her dying father finds herself being drawn into a web of vampirism and witchcraft.
    DirectorRichard BlackburnStarsLesley TaplinCheryl SmithWilliam Whitton
  • Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (1972)

    21. Neither the Sea Nor the Sand

    19721h 50mR
    5.7 (448)
    Wife on Isle of Jersey, meets pilot, they become lovers. Flee to Scotland. While making love on beach, lighthouse keeper dies. Incident triggers further events.
    DirectorFred BurnleyStarsSusan HampshireFrank FinlayMichael Petrovitch
  • Tam Lin (1970)

    22. Tam Lin

    19701h 46mPG-13
    5.7 (815)
    An older woman uses witchcraft to keep her young jet-set friends. Based on an ancient Scottish folk song.
    DirectorRoddy McDowallStarsAva GardnerIan McShaneRichard Wattis

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