Category:Film:Witchcraft

Films featuring witches and witchcraft, generally in a fairly traditional way: this sort of film will probably cross over with Gothic Horror, American Gothic/Southern Gothic, and Folk Horror, with malevolent, spell-casting witches in league with Ye Devil.

Lovecraft was inspired by Gothic Horror, and helped to invent the modern American Gothic and Southern Gothic genres, and did use witches in a couple stories (notably, "Dreams in the Witch-House (fiction)"). Folk Horror is a genre centered on the concept of the survival of witch cults into modern eras in rural or sometimes urban locations; Folk Horror may take some small inspiration from Lovecraft and the "Lovecraft Circle", and especially from their Gothic influences, but otherwise generally isn't often closely related to Lovecraftian horror; still, some Folk Horror films will find their way into Lovecraftian film lists (and this category) when they have some tangential "Lovecraftian" qualities.