5 Folk Horror Films to Stream Right Now

Representing a few different countries, these folk horror films offer diverse and frightening narratives.

All February long, I will be focusing on folklore and folk horror. For all my Folk Horror February posts, click here.

Here are five films currently streaming for free or by subscription service that all have a strong folk horror element to it. If you’re into found footage, you’re in luck because three of these happen to be of that subgenre: Webcast, Borderlands/Final Prayer, and Dabbe: Cin Çarpmasi. These five films represent folk horror from four countries: United States, England, Switzerland and Turkey. Webcast, Borderlands, and Dabbe: Cin Çarpmasi are the scariest of the bunch, but my pick for the scariest would be Borderlands. Jug Face and Sennentuntschi have really strong female lead performances, and are more emotionally stirring than the others. That said, all five films all offer something interesting and different, and I hope this list gets some new fans to these movies that I really like.

Webcast (2018)
Where to watch it: Prime
When two young filmmakers suspect their neighbours are involved with the abduction of a teenage girl, they begin to run surveillance on them, and that’s when things start to go wrong.

The Borderlands (2013) [aka Final Prayer]
Where to watch it: Tubi
A team of Vatican investigators descend upon a church in a remote area to demystify the unusual happenings, but what they discover is more disturbing than they had first imagined.

Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps (2010)
Where to watch it: Tubi, Prime
Three lonely herdsmen starved of female companionship creates the girl of their dreams, from a broom, some straw and a few rags. The creation – Sennentuntschi, lives and breathe to cook, clean and look after the three.

Dabbe: Cin Çarpması (2009)
Where to watch it: Netflix
Preparing for her wedding, Kübra gets possessed by unknown livings. To cure Kübra, a psychiatrist, Ebru, gets on way. Ebru is also an old friend of Kübra. Ebru would work together with an exorcist to save Kübra. Just when things seemed to be going well, everything start going horribly wrong.

Jug Face (2013)
Where to watch it: Tubi
When she learns the supernatural pit worshipped by her remote community in the woods has demanded her as a blood sacrifice, Ada struggles to find a way to survive, while the pit lashes out in anger.

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