10 Obscure Folk Horror Movies You Need To Watch

Words cannot do full justice to the unashamed weirdness of 2013's Jug Face. Shot on a tiny budget before debuting at several prominent film festivals, the film is just 81 minutes long, a fact that becomes more and more unbelievable based on how much bizarre content director Chad Crawford Kinkle manages to cram into the film.

The picture tells the tale of an off-grid community; said community worship a hole in the ground, which just so happens to have supernatural healing properties. However, events get even stranger as the full extent of proceedings is revealed. A creature resides in the pit, and for it to maintain its healing abilities, the community must sacrifice a member to the monstrous entity. The sacrifices are chosen by Dawai, who designs clay jugs of faces which ominously replicate the features of the person who is to be sacrificed. That's just for starters; Jug Face also features the contentious topic of incest, adding an uncomfortable layer to an already wacky story.

Fortunately, the fraught topic does not take away from the quality of what is a thrilling experience of a batsh*t crazy folk horror film. The lead performances from Lauren Ashley Carter and Sean Bridgers are absolutely phenomenal, and a fairly limited premise does not hurt the depth or richness of the storytelling of Jug Face in the slightest. Additionally possessing the rare distinction of a horror film that received a positive critical response, the 2013 outing remains a diamond in the rough for the sub-genre.