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This month’s installment of Deep Cuts Rising features a variety of horror movies. Some selections reflect a specific day or event in August, and others were chosen at random.

Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown.

This month’s offerings feature folk horror, killer animals, and more.

Dark August (1976)

Directed by Martin Goldman.

With August 22 being World Folklore Day, horror fans don’t ever have to look too far to find mysticism and superstitions. Right in their backyards are plenty of homegrown horrors that showcase the extraordinary. Martin Goldman’s Vermont-shot regional horror Dark August centers on the man who accidentally runs over and kills a little girl. While J.J. Barry‘s difficult character is found innocent in court, he still suspects the victim’s grandfather has cursed him. Now the protagonist...

Gabriel Mann will star in Valley in the Heart's Delight, an indie feature being produced by Scott Rosenfelt and Billie Greif and directed by Tim Boxell. Pete Postlethwaite and Bruce McGill also headline the cast. Valley is based on a true story of two lynchings that took place in the early 1930s in reaction to the kidnapping of the son of a prominent local businessman. The story centers on a young maverick reporter (Mann) and his antagonist (Postlethwaite), the hard-boiled publisher of the local newspaper. McGill will play a local businessman. Miles Murphy wrote the script and is exec producing via his Banana Peel Entertainment banner.