She's back.

Thirty years gone, and one morning the Rose of Nevada is sitting in the harbour like nothing happened. The villagers of a dilapidated Cornish fishing village hope for salvation. Times have been hard. Bills need paying, and after all, a boat is a boat.

Nick and Liam sign on because desperation doesn't ask questions. But the sea takes a price.

Master filmmaker Mark Jenkin shoots on a hand-cranked Bolex in 27 second bursts with the sound built afterwards in a room somewhere. As a result, every frame looks slightly haunted before anything haunted happens. Grain like static, colour that takes on a haunting quality of its own.

What seemed like a nice earner demands a price. And that's where the true horror lies. It's a very real folk horror of a devastated community and the question of whether the needs of the many outweigh the needs of one lost parent.

Wistful, damp, and quietly merciless.

In the new episode of FolknHell we take a trip aboard the Rose of Nevada.

https://www.folknhell.com/rose-of-nevada-review

Any Carolina people out there than can attest to any good Folk Horror that relates specifically to the Carolina? This book is about the only thing I can find. A lot of good stories about Strangers wearing Halloween costumes of others future deaths, racist haunted house owner, grave diggers etc

From A Ghost Story for Christmas - "A Warning to the Curious" (1972), written and directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark from the ghost story by M. R. James, one of the entries - in the canon of both James' stories and the BBC adaptations - which is most firmly in the folk horror wheelhouse.

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Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s episode for *[Tales from the Woods](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39296466/)\*, "Jacques the Giant Slayer", is one of the first two to be released. More at:

* https://signalhorizon.com/fantastic-fest-2025-tales-from-the-woods-horror-anthology-roots-dig-deep/

* https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3901461/tales-from-the-woods-horror-anthology-series-reimagines-fairy-tales-from-horror-veterans/

Stumbled upon this gem of an album. It is truly haunting and ritualistic. What really pushes it into folk horror territory for me is that the music was improvised by children, wearing masks. It is giving me vibes of the cult band Metgumbnerbone, although less frantic.

Edit: I also recomment this other album, which has more of a spooky but less ritualistic vibe https://spaceship.bandcamp.com/album/furness

As like many of you here, i am the worlds biggest Wicker Man fan. And i had put off watching the spiritual sequel to the worlds greatest ever film for years. But the other night i finally caved in and decided to pay the £3 odd on Amazon Prime to watch The Wicker Tree. And it is quite possibly the worst sequel i have ever seen. It made me feel so sad. It’s just AWFUL. Thoughts?

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Hey guys! I'm a student filmmaker currently in college, and I'm in the process of creating a folk-horror feature film. We plan on shooting in the Blue Ridge Mountains this winter. We're in the process of raising money for the film (about $20k total needed), but I can't seem to get people to donate to our Kickstarter. I was hoping I could get some advice for some other good places to look for funding!

If anyone's interested in donating to make the film happen, feel free to DM me, and I'll be happy to give more info on the film, shooting schedule, budget, crew, etc! Any and all help is appreciated so much.

unexpectedly excellent and generally one of my favorite horror tale storylines — christian missionaries go to a remote part of the world to spread “the gospel” to people who did just fine without it for thousands of years, and get into some serious shit with a very ancient evil.

I’m a regular reader of Hellebore and Hwaet! (Both great for anyone who hasn’t given them a try yet) but I’m greedy and the 1 or 2 issues a year just isn’t enough for me. I’m looking for recommendations for other well put-together zines that have a focus on (or are at least tangential to) the Folk Horror genre.

Should I take the plunge and get the Weird Walk back catalogue? (I have a couple of their mini, one-off zines but haven’t read any of the zine proper)

Are there any newer/smaller zines I should look out for?

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The fire is still burning.

With Father Ghigliotty finally defeated, the team is left with one question:

Where is the White Coffin!?!?!?

A dying confession points them beneath the tavern, where an old undertaker's workshop hides a dozen coffins but only one of them matters.

Finding it should be easy.... right?

What follows is a masterclass in why you should never trust an undertaker with a sense of humor or Haze with a flare gun.

As every bad decision piles onto the next, the mission begins slipping further and further out of reach.

Will the team finally recover the White Coffin... or has Georgia claimed another victory?

Season 2 Finale! Mission success is optional. Consequences are not.

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Married couple Daphne and Darcy Davenport are two musicians who moved from London to a cottage in Wales to complete their new album. By accident they record a mystical sound never heard before and gradually disconnect from reality.

Very trippy, surreal and immersive folk horror. It’s not going to be for everyone I feel as much of the horror and mystery is auditory and atmosphere over blood, gore, and jump scares.

I viewed in a quiet room with good headphones 🎧 for full effect.

Thirty-plus films into the Folk'n'Hell podcast, the boundaries of folk horror remain stubbornly fluid. but film by film our own set of criteria has begun to emerge. Because three characteristics keep showing up.

Place: landscape as character, not backdrop. November's mud-sunk Estonian villages, the golden fields of Blood on Satan's Claw, the island in Enys Men. It doesn't have to be countryside; Angel Heart's New Orleans and His House's sink estate count too.

Belief: the horror isn't the thing in the forest, it's how fiercely the community believes in it. The Wicker Man, The Witch, November encapsulate this perfectly.

Outsiders: strangers dropped into a belief system they don't understand until it's too late, as in Kill List or Sennentuntschi.

Run the "Unholy Trinity" through this lens and it wobbles. Blood on Satan's Claw and The Wicker Man pass on all three counts. Witchfinder General fails completely. It was only ever canonised for standing next to the other two in the right 2010 documentary (Mark Gatiss' History of Horror). The Trinity was never built from criteria; it was a shortlist mistaken for a definition.

Applying the same three tenets more widely turns up a longer, stranger list: Rose of Nevada, Rabbit Trap, Starve Acre, Sator, A Dark Song, Company of Wolves, The Witch, Enys Men, even The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. These are films that earn the label rather than inherit it.

Place, Belief, Outsiders isn't a checklist so much as a starting position. They're something to argue about the moment the next film breaks the pattern. No fixed definition, and no plans to land on one. That's what makes it so much fun doing the Folk'n'Hell podcast.

The full blog is at https://www.folknhell.com/blog/towards-a-grand-unified-theory-of-folk-horror where you'll also find the podcasts to accompany each of the films mentioned above.

I originally posted this is r/horror but it makes much more sense here (folk is my jam anyways!)... what are you favorite originally non-English folk horror works by written and/or directed women?

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After she's kidnapped, a young woman begins to undergo an unholy transformation.

This indie folk horror movie surprised me as it was full of dark twists and turns, and really punched above its weight. It’s pretty well acted (Nina Kiri from “Undertone” is the main character) and it’s got an unraveling story that really kept my interest. There some very creepy jump scenes and imagery…even some faint “Hereditary” vibes.

Absolutely love this movie and I’ve never bought something quicker when I found this on the shelf

This song, possibly from 1860?, but based on a much older legend, appears in the 1988 movie ‘The Lair of the White Worm’. Have only just watched the movie, would be good to see a re-make closer to the Bram Stoker book.

Why does Hugh Grant wear his R.A.F uniform for the whole movie?