Items10The creator’s order
  1. 1The Owl Service (1969)The Owl Service (1969) 7.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired Dec 21, 1969Alan Garner adapted his own novel, and the result is still the template for folk horror on television. Three teenagers staying at a remote house in a Welsh valley find a dinner service whose floral pattern, pieced together, forms an owl, and they start reliving the legend of Blodeuwedd, the woman…0
  2. 2A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971)A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971) 7.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired Dec 24, 1971The BBC's annual Christmas ghost story films lean heavily on M.R. James, and the best of them are about what happens when someone disturbs old ground. Start with Stigma from 1977, set at a cottage in Avebury, where moving a standing stone in the garden unleashes ghostly forces, then A Warning to…0
  3. 3Children of the Stones (1977)Children of the Stones (1977) 7.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jan 10, 1977Filmed at Avebury, this seven-part serial places its fictional village, Milbury, inside a real stone circle, and the stones loom over nearly every outdoor scene. An astrophysicist and his teenage son arrive to study them and find villagers who are unnervingly content, because the village's leader…0
  4. 4Higurashi: When They Cry (2006)Higurashi: When They Cry (2006) 7.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired Apr 5, 2006A Japanese anime set in the mountain village of Hinamizawa in June 1983, where every year at the Cotton Drifting Festival one person dies and another disappears, and locals call it the curse of their deity, Oyashiro-sama. The story runs in question and answer arcs that restart the same summer from…0
  5. 5Jordskott (2015)Jordskott (2015) 7.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired Feb 16, 2015A Swedish series that opens as a missing-child case and turns into a war between people and the forest. Detective Eva Thörnblad returns to her small hometown, deep in ancient woodland, seven years after her daughter vanished by a lake, and a new disappearance pulls her toward a mining company owned…0
  6. 6The Living and the Dead (2016)The Living and the Dead (2016) 7.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jun 28, 2016It opens in the Somerset village of Shepzoy on the summer solstice of 1894, as a pioneering psychologist brings his wife home to modernize the family farm and finds the old customs very much alive. Corn dollies, menacing scarecrows and the memory of a hedgewitch drowned by the previous generation…0
  7. 7The Third Day (2020)The Third Day (2020) 6.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 14, 2020Jude Law plays Sam, a grieving man who crosses to Osea, a real privately owned island in an Essex estuary, and finds himself trapped among islanders with some unusual traditions tied to their festival. The first three episodes, Summer, owe an open debt to The Wicker Man and are the reason to…0
  8. 8Equinox (2020)Equinox (2020) 6.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired Dec 30, 2020A six-episode Danish series created by Tea Lindeburg from her podcast. In 1999 a class of graduating students vanished, and in the present the younger sister of one of them, now a late-night radio host, follows the trail back to a deserted island and a hypnotic equinox ritual. Hares, birds and…0
  9. 9Katla (2021)Katla (2021) 7.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jun 17, 2021Set in Vík, in the south of Iceland, more than a year into a nonstop eruption of the glacier volcano Katla, this series has people walking down off the ice covered in sooty clay, and nobody can say what they are. It is adapted from an old folk tale, and the Nordic folklore at Iceland's roots,…0
  10. 10The Red King (2024)The Red King (2024) 6.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired Apr 24, 2024A police sergeant posted away after informing on fellow officers, a small Welsh island and a missing boy: Toby Whithouse's six-part series knows exactly which classic it is answering, down to an innkeeper's daughter modeled on the one in The Wicker Man. The cold case keeps dragging the island's…0