# The best folk horror movies

Isolated villages, pagan rites and a community that smiles too much: the best folk horror, ranked from StudioBinder, Collider and Screen Rant.

- 44 votes · 13 items
- Jun 28, 2026 · Kirsty Kennedy
- https://even.best/en/l/4105/the-best-folk-horror-movies

## Top 10

1. **The Wicker Man (1973)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — A devout policeman on a pagan Scottish island: the genre's blueprint.
2. **Witchfinder General (1968)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Vincent Price as a witch hunter in Civil War England.
3. **Midsommar (2019)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Horror in constant daylight at a Swedish festival, by Ari Aster.
4. **The Wailing (2016)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — A stranger and a wave of deaths in a Korean village.
5. **Lamb (2021)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — An Icelandic couple raise a strange newborn.
6. **The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Village children turn to the devil in 17th-century England.
7. **Hagazussa (2017)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — A goatherd's daughter shunned as a witch in the Alps.
8. **Children of the Corn (1984)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — A Nebraska town ruled by children, from Stephen King.
9. **Kill List (2011)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Two hitmen whose last job leads to a cult, by Ben Wheatley.
10. **The Witch (2015)** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — A Puritan family, the woods and Black Phillip.
11. **The Ritual (2017)** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Four friends lost in a Swedish forest.
12. **Onibaba (1964)** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — Two women who kill samurai in the reeds, by Kaneto Shindo.
13. **Apostle (2018)** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — A man infiltrates an island cult to rescue his sister.

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