folk horror

English

Noun

folk horror (uncountable)

  1. A subgenre of horror fiction that uses elements of folklore, such as a rural setting, isolation, and themes of superstition or paganism such as human sacrifice.
    • 2017, Adam Scovell, Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange, Leighton Buzzard: Auteur, →ISBN, page 8:
      This means connecting disparate forms of media through their shared summoning of these themes and ideas rather than looking at the commercial reasons behind certain cycles of film and television; it is instead about what is attempting to be unleashed that is at the heart of Folk Horror and not simply the decisions of money men tapping into a lucrative popularisation of the occult, the paranoid or the ‘wyrd’.
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