Movies like Poison for the Fairies

“Poison for the Fairies (1986) is a 1980s Mexican folk-horror that stages childhood rites as instruments of social coercion. It centers a coercive friendship and articulates that conflict through anamorphic framings, low-key motivated lighting, and grainy, near-analog textures that keep ritual ambiguous. Lupani: the film demands reconsideration of play as a site of power, using disciplined cinematography to make psychological danger feel endemic rather than sensational.”