10 Awesome Recent Horror Movies You'll Never Watch Again

4. Enys Men (2022)

Mark Jenkin turned the film world upside down with 2019's Bait, his socio-drama shot in black and white on a 16mm clockwork camera, and when he announced that his next film would be a folk horror set off the coast of Cornwall, none of us could wait to see how he would realise it. 

Enys Men features Mary Woodvine as an unnamed volunteer living alone on a remote island, tracking the progression of a rare flower and the atmospheric conditions around it. As the isolation takes hold, she begins experiencing figures and images of the past, several periods of the previously inhabited island encroaching in on her present, while a monolithic rock monument creeps ever-closer. 

Once again, Jenkin uses old technology - a hand-crank Bolex camera - to craft the film's aesthetic, this time capturing rich detail and vibrant colour, shot on stock that perfectly evokes the '70s film it calls back to. And it's not just visually arresting, but creepy as hell, in constant conversation with British folk horror.

However. Enys Men is not an easy watch. It is cognitively challenging, infuriatingly abstract and does not give over to easy interpretation. The experience is awesome in the literal sense of the word, but you may be forgiven for casting the film asunder when you're done, swearing never to set eyes on it again.