A guide to films that express social realism or escapism; and a guide to culturally important films that may reveal a character's thoughts, dreams, or motivations.
Explores the folk horror phenomenon and its culturally specific manifestations in international horror, from its first wave in the 1970s to today.
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Folk Horror
AntlersIn a remote Oregon town, a middle-school teacher and her sheriff brother become entangled with her enigmatic student, whose dark secrets lead to horrifying encounters with a legendary ancestral creature who came before them.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE ANTLERS
ISBN: 0786936871371
Publication Date: 2021
The Blair Witch ProjectThree student filmmakers set out into the forest to film a documentary on a legend known as The Blair Witch. As they become lost in the woods, an unseen evil begins to stalk and harass them. They soon realize that what they are filming is not a legend, but their own descent into a horrifying encounter with the supernatural.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE BLAIR
ISBN: 0012236112662
Publication Date: 1999
Children of the CornA young couple find themselves stranded in the rural town of Gatlin, Nebraska, where they encounter a mysterious religious sect of children. But nowhere in town are there any adults. The horror grows to a blood-curdling climax as the two new visitors learn the horrifying secret behind the prospering corn fields.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE STEPHEN
ISBN: 0014381729726
Publication Date: 1984
ClearcutA white lawyer arrives at a remote area in Northern Ontario to defend Indigenous activists who are blocking a logging company's clearcut of old growth on their land. A pacifist by nature, he finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist named Arthur, who insists on kidnapping the head of the logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.
Publication Date: 1991
Enys MenA wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island descends into madness, pushing her into a living nightmare. This masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the most exciting filmmakers.
Publication Date: 2022
In the EarthAs the world searches for a cure to a devastating virus, a scientist and a park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness., the forest coming to life around them.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE IN
ISBN: 0843501036242
Publication Date: 2021
KwaidanConsists of four stories of the supernatural based on Japanese folk material. In The black hair, a poor young samurai leaves his first wife to marry a rich woman. When he is unhappy in his second marriage, he returns to his first wife, who at first appears unchanged from when he last saw her. In The woman of the snow, a woodcutter is spared by a mysterious ghost-like woman in the snow, but must promise never to tell anyone what he has seen. In Hoichi, the earless, a blind musician-monk named Hoichi is commanded by a gathering of ghosts to sing the saga of their ancient deeds. The head monk paints Hoichi's body with prayer verses to protect him, but unfortunately overlooks Hoichi's ears. In In a cup of tea, a writer wonders what would happen to a person who drinks another's soul and finds out.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE KWAIDAN
ISBN: 0037429152027
Publication Date: 1965
La LloronaA notorious, now aging former military dictator stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Mayan communities. While battling legal repercussions and the people's demands for justice, he and his family are plagued by a series of increasingly strange and disturbing occurrences, seemingly brought on by an enigmatic new housekeeper.
Call Number: ESPANOL DVD PELICULA LLORONA
ISBN: 9781681439884
Publication Date: 2019
LambIn rural Iceland, a childless couple discover a strange and unnatural newborn in their sheep barn. They decide to raise her as their own, but sinister forces are determined to return the creature to the wilderness that birthed her.
Call Number: BLU-RAY MOVIE LAMB
Publication Date: 2021
MenIn the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. However, someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her. What begins as simmering dread soon becomes a fully formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE MEN
ISBN: 0031398335382
Publication Date: 2022
MidsommarA young woman reluctantly joins her boyfriend on a summer trip to a Swedish festival where things quickly go awry.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE MIDSOMMAR
ISBN: B07VP6V6HN
Publication Date: 2019
MolochBetriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE MOLOCH
ISBN: 0014381150018
Publication Date: 2022
The Serpent and the RainbowA Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scienist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE SERPENT
ISBN: 0025192123627
Publication Date: 1987
The VillageA seemingly perfect village and its people are held captive within its boundaries by evil and foreboding forces in the surrounding woods. When one curious, bold young man plans to step beyond the borders, the village may be forever changed.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE VILLAGE
ISBN: 0786936242867
Publication Date: 2004
ViyIn 19th century Russia, a seminary student id forced to spend three nights with the corpse of a beautiful young witch.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE VIY
ISBN: 0663390003084
Publication Date: 1967
The Wicker ManWhen a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle, is not what it seems.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE WICKER
ISBN: 0031398103615
Publication Date: 1973
The WitchA family in 1630s New England faces destruction by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession. When one of their five children goes missing and their life-sustaining crops fail, they fall victim to paranoia and fear as they begin to turn on one another.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE WITCH
ISBN: B01D2KFSS8
Publication Date: 2016
Witchfinder GeneralAs the English Civil War rages, witch hunter Matthew Hopkins and his sadistic assistant John Stearne travel from town to town identifying, torturing and killing alleged witches and being paid well for their services. Hopkins' persecution and murder of a priest and sexual blackmail of the priest's niece Sarah leads young Parliamentarian soldier Richard Marshall, Sarah's fiancé, to swear vengeance against him.