Items20The creator’s order
  1. 1The Wicker Man (1973)The Wicker Man (1973) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 6 Dec 1973A Scottish island's songs, school lessons and agricultural anxieties make belief feel like a complete social system. Edward Woodward's visiting policeman brings convictions of his own, which keeps the clash more interesting than a simple contest between reason and superstition. The community is a…0
  2. 2Midsommar (2019)Midsommar (2019) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased 3 Jul 2019Flowers and bright Swedish summer light offer no shelter in Ari Aster's story of a grieving visitor drawn towards a closed community. Watch how shared gestures and synchronised responses make belonging feel both consoling and coercive. Its violent festival is invented for the film, rather than an…0
  3. 3The Wailing (2016)The Wailing (2016) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased 12 May 2016A village illness draws a South Korean policeman into competing explanations, accusations and rituals. The force of the film lies in how badly he needs certainty: each new authority seems briefly persuasive. Na Hong-jin lets comedy curdle into a long, exhausting dread, with shamanic performance and…0
  4. 4The Witch (2016)The Witch (2016) 7.0/10 on IMDbReleased 19 Feb 2016A banished Puritan family tries to make a home beside a New England forest, carrying its fears across the Atlantic. Household work, failed crops and accusations turn belief into something that governs every meal and glance. Robert Eggers makes the family's language and rigid hierarchy central to…0
  5. 5Impetigore (2019)Impetigore (2019) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased 17 Oct 2019An inherited house takes Maya back to an Indonesian village where ancestry offers danger rather than security. Joko Anwar gives the mystery a vivid texture through shadow-puppet performance and the community's attempts to explain its suffering. The friendship between Maya and Dini provides a…0
  6. 6Roh (2020)Roh (2020) 6.0/10 on IMDbReleased 6 Aug 2020A mother and her children shelter a strange girl in a Malaysian forest, where every act of hospitality seems to deepen their uncertainty. Emir Ezwan draws on Malay tales and religious doubt without turning the film into an explanation of either. Firelight, clay and patient woodland compositions do…0
  7. 7November (2017)November (2017) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased 3 Feb 2017In this Estonian village, people bargain, steal and enlist magical helpers as casually as they do farm work. The kratts, assembled from scraps, make folklore part of an economy of survival and greed. Rainer Sarnet's black-and-white images can be ravishing and ridiculous within the same scene. This…0
  8. 8You Won't Be Alone (2022)You Won't Be Alone (2022) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased 1 Apr 2022A shape-changing witch learns village life in nineteenth-century Macedonia by inhabiting different bodies. Goran Stolevski uses that horrific premise to make labour, tenderness and the restrictions placed on women newly visible. The hushed narration invites sympathy rather than keeping the witch at…0
  9. 9Tumbbad (2018)Tumbbad (2018) 8.2/10 on IMDbReleased 12 Oct 2018Rain-soaked buildings and a family's appetite for buried wealth give this Indian horror fable a clammy physical presence. The rules surrounding its treasure make greed an inherited practice, not simply one man's bad decision. Treat the film's mythology as the story's own construction rather than a…0
  10. 10Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2018)Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2018) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased 2 Mar 2018A blacksmith, an orphan and a captive demon turn a Basque folktale into a noisy contest over who deserves fear or pity. The forge's fire, heavy iron and theatrical creatures give the storytelling a pleasingly handmade force. Basque-language dialogue keeps the place specific while the bargains…0