10 Best Horror Movies Set In Medieval Times

A truly disturbing and perplexing German film from 2017, Hagazussa (which is an old High German word for Witch) is a story of isolation, mental illness and hatred. The story follows Albrun, a lonesome goat-herd in the hills above a small village. She once lived with her mother, but illness and madness drove her mother to abuse her before disappearing into the woods to die. Many years later, Albrun has an uneasy relationship with the village below, occasionally trading them milk while she herself has a baby daughter.

Things become stranger and more hateful as the locals turn against her, her own daughter seems to shy away from her and haunting noises echo through the hills. As the one woman she thought of as a friend engineers a vicious assault on her, Albrun is consumed with a need for demented revenge and sets upon the village below.

A directorial debut from Lukas Fiegelfeld, this uneasy film shows great promise from its up-and-coming creator and stars. Truly dark, disturbing and confusing, this film embraces its medieval setting as a backdrop where suspicion of witchcraft would be commonplace and its people ignorant and bigoted.