National Costume (1975)

静かな海辺にある孤島の灯台で、お父さんのコナー、お母さんのブロナー、愛犬のクーと幸せに暮らしていた男の子のベン。彼らは、新しい家族を迎えようとしていた。大好きなお母さんから、「あなたは世界で一番のお兄ちゃんになるのよ」と言われ、ベンも赤ちゃんが生まれてくる日を楽しみにしていた。 優しくて物知りなお母さんは、ベンにたくさんのお話や歌を教えてくれた。巨人のマクリルと愛犬の物語や、アザラシの妖精セルキーが歌うと妖精が家に戻れる不思議な伝説、古い言葉で綴られる美しい歌など……。 ある晩、ベンはお母さんに海の歌が聞こえる貝の笛をもらう。うれしくて、笛を大事に抱いて眠りについたのだが、目を覚ますとお母さんの姿が見当たらない。 お母さんは赤ちゃんを残して、海へ消えてしまったのだ。

若き妖怪ハンター玄奘は、“わらべ唄 三百首”を武器に妖怪たちの善の心を呼び起こそうとするがいつもうまくいかない。ある日、彼が半魚半獣の妖怪に襲われた川辺の村で、村人たちと協力して陸に上げた魔物が人間の姿に変身する。玄奘が歌うわらべ唄は全然効果がなく、逆に攻撃された彼を女性妖怪ハンターの段が救う。

A group of unwitting sorority sisters accidentally awaken the serial-killing Leprechaun after they build a sorority house on his hunting grounds.

After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.

Basque Country, Spain, 1843. A police constable arrives at a small village in Álava to investigate a mysterious blacksmith who lives alone deep in the woods.

A child bride grows up to be an enigmatic woman presiding over her household, harboring a painful past as supernatural murders of men plague her village.

A folklore professor becomes unwittingly possessed by the ancient Japanese demons of Thunder and Lightning. But when The Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense dispatches a team of agents to investigate, a cursed samurai sword sends Hellboy to a supernatural dimension of ghosts, monsters, and feudal mayhem. Now while pyrokinetic Liz Sherman and fishboy Abe Sapien battle one very pissed-off dragon, a lost and cranky Hellboy must find his way home.

As a deadly virus ravages the world, Dr. Martin Lowery embarks on a mission to reach test site ATU327A, a research hub deep in the Arboreal Forest. The arduous journey, guided by park scout Alma, is set back by a nighttime attack that leaves the two bruised and shoeless. When they run into Zach, a man living off the grid, they gratefully accept his help. Zach’s intentions aren’t exactly what they seem, however, and a path out of the forest and into safety quickly fades as the line between myth and science blurs.

A re-imagining of the old mystical folklore that follows a woman and a tight-knit Jewish community that is besieged by foreign invaders. She conjures a dangerous creature to protect them but it may be more evil than she ever imagined.

Serbian fashion designer Irena Dubrovna and American marine engineer Oliver Reed meet in Central Park, fall in love, and marry after a brief courtship; but Irena won't consummate the union for fear that she will turn into a panther compelled to kill her lover, pursuant to a belief harbored by her home village.

The evil vampire villain Radu returns to his hometown of Prejnar, after spending years in exile. He steals the precious blood stone which is said to be bleeding from all saints, from his father and kills him. Meanwhile two American schoolgirls team up with a local girl for a work on Romanian culture. Radu becomes attracted to them but runs into trouble when his brother Stephan helps the girls.

1年前、大好きな母を亡くした少女カンナ。運命に導かれ、ある使命を担うことになったカンナが、毎年全国の神々が集う神話の地、出雲を目指す壮大な旅に出る。

A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom.

人と妖の間で忙しい毎日を送る夏目は、偶然昔の同級生・結城と再会したことで、妖にまつわる苦い記憶を思い出す。 そんな頃、夏目は、名前を返した妖の記憶に出てきた女性・津村容莉枝と知り合う。 レイコのことを知る彼女は、いまは一人息子の椋雄とともに穏やかに暮らしていた。 彼らとの交流に心が和む夏目。 だが、親子の住む町には謎の妖が潜んでいるらしかった。 そのことを調べに行った帰り、ニャンコ先生の体についてきた"妖の種"が、藤原家の庭先で、一夜のうちに木となって実をつける。 どことなく自分に似た形のその実を食べてしまったニャンコ先生が、なんと3つに分裂してしまう――!?

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

其ノ壱「石起こし」 : 森の中で、小さな妖怪・ミツミと出会った夏目。 岩鉄という神格の妖怪を、深い眠りから覚ます「石起こし」の役を任されているという。しかし褒美の酒をめぐり、ニャンコ先生や妖怪たちが、起こし役を横取りしようと画策をはじめる。ミツミを気にかけた夏目は、手助けをすることに――。 其ノ弐「怪しき来訪者」:田沼のもとに現れた、不思議な客人。毎日のように訪ねて来ては、少しだけ話をして帰っていく。その正体が妖怪であることを知った夏目は、田沼を心配するが、田沼は妖怪との交流を楽しむようになっていた。妖怪は悪さをするつもりはないらしいが、少しずつ田沼の体調が悪くなってしまう――。

A preacher is accused of adultery and he and his followers are chased out of town and become stranded in an isolated forest which is haunted by the spirits of long dead Native Americans.

When a single mother begins to experience symptoms of the stigmata, she seeks the help of a local priest and nun to help her understand what is seen and unseen.

A woman researches a book that takes her to the black magic cult of Leák in Bali. She meets an evil witch who promises to train her dark arts, but she is tricked and turned into a flying vampire with internal organs hanging from her neck.

Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.