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Folk Horror's New Harvest
A run of modern folk horror in which grieving or rootless outsiders step onto old land (a Swedish commune, a Puritan forest edge, an Icelandic farm, an English village) and find the pagan past still hungry; they rhyme on ritual, landscape and the dread of belonging.
Mostly well-loved, and it starts at the A24 crowd favourites before moving into cult items and slower arthouse corners like November and Lamb; it's a rewarding October run that keeps asking for more patience as it goes.
- Midsommar (2019)
- The Witch (2016)
- The Ritual (2017)
- Fear Street: 1666 (2021)
- Hokum (2026)
- Kill List (2011)
- Men (2022)
- Lamb (2021)
- November (2017)