The films

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Onibaba

Two women murder soldiers in a sea of susuki grass in fourteenth-century Japan. The grass is the antagonist.

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Apostle

Gareth Evans doing folk horror with the fight choreography left in. Much nastier than expected.

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Thelma

A Norwegian student with a repressive religious upbringing discovers her desire has physical consequences.

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Lamb

Icelandic, extremely slow, and entirely dependent on you accepting the thing in the second act.

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Trick 'r Treat

Four interlocking Halloween stories and the best anthology since Creepshow. Warner shelved it for two years.

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Border

A Swedish customs officer who can smell guilt meets a man who smells like nothing she recognises.

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The Ritual

Four men, a Swedish forest, and a creature design worth waiting for.

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The Wailing

Two and a half hours, and it withholds whether the shaman is helping right until the end.

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Viy

The only horror film made in the Soviet Union, and the last twenty minutes are extraordinary.

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The Fog

Carpenter's follow-up to Halloween: a Californian coastal town, a hundredth anniversary, and something owed.

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The Wicker Man

A musical about a policeman with no sense of humour. The best British horror film ever made.

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The Witch

Most of the dialogue comes from court records, then it commits fully to the supernatural.

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Midsommar

Runs the folk horror formula in constant daylight. Everyone is perfectly hospitable throughout.

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Sinners

Coogler in 1932 Mississippi with twin Michael B. Jordans and a juke joint. Shot on 65mm and it shows.