Creepy Catalog's 23 Folk Horror Movies
"Folk horror is given its name because it's drawn from folklore or folk tales; it uses ancient legends to show a clash of values between the present and the past. Folk-horror plots typically involve a clash between the modern and the primitive, the urban and the rural, the global and the local. The rural areas are typically forests or islands, and the visiting city-dwellers are often viewed as unwanted intruders who meet a gruesome fate. The movies are 'all loosely based on this typical folk horror plot, in which someone, often an urban dweller, goes on a trip into a rural landscape, an isolated village, for instance, and runs into local inhabitants who have a very strange set of beliefs. These beliefs are often rooted in folk culture, even pagan, pre-Christian religion, and the person who intrudes into the rural community generally doesn't fare very well.' They're alienated and oftentimes end up the victim of a violent culminating sacrifice.' - creepycatalog.com
avg. score: 6 of 23 (26%)
required scores: 1, 2, 4, 6, 9
