Folk Horror

Folk horror is so hot right now, and we at ARROW have obviously got a killer collection of countryside crackers that focus on the witch-y and the power of nature; where the ritualistic, rural darkness and folklore combine to create a unique streak of pastoral terror.

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  • Incubus
    Movie + 7 extras

    Incubus

    Movie + 7 extras

    1966 • United States • Directed by Leslie Stevens

    EVIL HAS NEVER BEEN SO SEDUCTIVE.

    It is often said that films about the Devil are cursed with bad luck, but Leslie Stevens’ Incubus might be the most cursed of them all. By the time it premiered in 1966, two of its stars had tragically taken th...

  • Noroi: The Curse
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    Noroi: The Curse

    Movie + 4 extras

    2005 • Japan • Directed by Koji Shiraishi

    The chilling Noroi: The Curse adopts a pseudo-documentary format as an investigative reporter into paranormal phenomena is forced to confront horrors beyond his wildest imagination after learning about an ancient folkloric demon.

  • The Deeper You Dig
    Movie + 2 extras

    The Deeper You Dig

    Movie + 2 extras

    2019 • United States • Directed by John Adams and Toby Poser

    Themes of family, loss and survival intersect on the thin line that separates the living from the dead in 'The Deeper You Dig', the latest feature written, directed by and starring filmmaking family the Adams Family ('Knuckle Jack', 'R...

  • Season of the Witch
    Movie + 4 extras

    Season of the Witch

    Movie + 4 extras

    1972 • United States • Directed by George A. Romero

    Perhaps the most unclassifiable of filmmaker George A. Romero’s works, 1972’s Season of the Witch sees the Night of the Living Dead filmmaker returning to the realm of the supernatural for this bewitching tale of a housewife driven to an intere...

  • Dark August

    Movie

    1976 • United States • Directed by Martin Goldman

    Witchcraft and psychic phenomena abound in this criminally-neglected slow-burn chiller from director Martin Goldman, starring Academy Award-winner Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire). J.J. Barry plays Sal, an out-of-towner relocated to a small ...

  • Shikoku
    Movie + 3 extras

    Shikoku

    Movie + 3 extras

    1999 • Japan • Directed by Shunichi Nagasaki

    In the ghostly pastoral horror of Shikoku, a young woman returns after many years to her rural birthplace, only to find her best friend from childhood has died by drowning when just sixteen. The dead girl's mother, the local Shintoist priestess, has e...

  • Prague Nights

    Movie

    1969 • Czech Republic • Directed by Jiří Brdečka

    In the vein of horror anthologies like Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH, the long-unseen PRAGUE NIGHTS is a gorgeous and supernatural vision of ancient and modern Prague: caught between Mod Sixties fashions and nightmarish Medieval catacombs, and filled...

  • At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

    Movie + 2 extras

    1964 • Brazil • Directed by José Mojica Marins

    Once seen, never forgotten! Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe) makes his screen debut in José Mojica Marins’ At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul, the first Brazilian-produced horror film. 

    Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for t...

  • Mirror Mirror
    Movie + 1 extra

    Mirror Mirror

    Movie + 1 extra

    1990 • United States • Directed by Marina Sargenti

    A teenage girl begins receiving black magic power through an antique mirror that drips blood, not realizing the mirror is controlled by demonic forces.

  • Children of the Corn

    Movie

    1984 • United States • Directed by Fritz Kiersch

    A young couple travelling cross-country find themselves stranded in the small town of Gatlin, where they meet a mysterious religious cult of children. With no adults in sight the terror brews as the new arrivals find the secrets of the prospering ...

  • Ley Lines

    Movie

    1999 • Japan • Directed by Takashi Miike

    Ley Lines moves from the countryside to the city and back, as three Japanese youths of Chinese descent (including The Raid 2's Kazuki Kitamura) seek their fortune in Tokyo, only to run afoul of a violent gang boss.

  • The Ballad of Narayama

    Movie

    Throughout the 1980s, Shohei Imamura (The Pornographers, Profound Desires of the Gods), a leading figure of the Japanese New Wave era of the 1960s, cemented his international reputation as one of the most important directors of his generation with a series of films that all competed at Cannes to ...