Highest-Rated Movies about 'Black Magic', Sort by Popularity

Death Note: The Last Name (2006), The Devil Rides Out (1968), The Plague of the Zombies (1966), Twins of Evil (1971), The Black Cauldron (1985), Krabat (2008), Shocker (1989), Chemical Wedding (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Black Magic movies.

#1. Death Note: The Last Name (2006)

Storyline: In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat L along with Teru Mikami (a Kira follower) and Kiyomi Takada (another Kira follower) but in the end will Light win? or will a Shinigami named Ryuk make all the difference in Light's victory or his ultimate death?

Plot Keywords: detective, college student, murderer, brutal, disturbing, dark, japan ...

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#2. The Devil Rides Out (1968)

Storyline: In the countryside of England, the Duc de Richleau a.k.a Nicholas welcomes his old friend Rex Van Ryn that has flown to meet him and Simon Aron, who is the son of an old friend of them that had passed away but charged them the task of watching the youngster. Nicholas and Rex unexpectedly visit Simon that is receiving twelve mysterious friends. Sooner Nicholas, who is proficient in black magic, learns that the guests are member of a satanic cult and Simon and his friend Tanith Carlisle will be baptized by the powerful leader Mocata to serve the devil. The two friends abduct Simon and Tanith expecting to save their souls but Mocata summons the Angel of Death and the Goat of Mendes to help him in a battle between the good and the forces of evil.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: duke, friend, high priest, satanist, devil, victim, dark ...

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#3. The Plague of the Zombies (1966)

Storyline: Young workers are dying because of a mysterious epidemic in a little village in Cornwall. Doctor Thompson is helpless and asks professor James Forbes for help. The professor and his daughter Sylvia travel to Thomson. Terrible things happen soon, beyond imagination or reality. Dead people are seen near an old, unused mine. Late people seem to live suddenly. Professor Forbes presumes that black magic is involved and someone has extraordinary power. He doesn't know how close he is: the dead become alive because of a magic voodoo-ritual, and so they must serve their master as mindless zombies...—Matthias Luehr <mluehr@htwm.de>

Plot Keywords: zombie, villager, doctor, squire, engaging, suspenseful, brooding ...

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#4. Twins of Evil (1971)

Storyline: In nineteenth century middle-Europe, orphaned teenage twins Maria and Frieda go to live with their uncle Gustav Weil, who heads the Brotherhood, a vigilante group trying to stamp out vampirism. But their methods are random and misplaced and the only result is a terrorised populace. The real threat lies with Count Karnstein, and although the twins seem outwardly to be identical, Frieda finds herself much more drawn than her sister to the Count's castle dominating the skyline.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: identical twin, uncle, puritan, count, vampire, vampire hunter, campy ...

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#5. The Black Cauldron (1985)

Storyline: Centuries ago, in the land of Prydain, a young man named Taran is given the task of protecting Hen Wen, a magical oracular pig, who knows the location of the mystical black cauldron. This is not an easy task, for The Evil Horned King will stop at nothing to get the cauldron.

Plot Keywords: sports, sorcerer, lord, princess, sidekick, incredible, thrilling ...

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#6. Krabat (2008)

Storyline: 1648. After the Thirty Years War, Germany is a wretched, plundered land, still ravished by the Black Death. Urchin Krabat gets separated from his beggar friends and finds refuge on the flourishing estate of the black miller. the hard worker gets initiated in his secret magic society. Only afterward he learns its terrible dark secrets, which spell death and/or solitude for the boys and their beloved village girls. A surprising friend offers a daring way out.—KGF Vissers

Plot Keywords: young boy, apprentice, foreman, girlfriend, dead person, mill worker, disturbing ...

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#7. Shocker (1989)

Storyline: A murderous TV repairman, Horace Pinker is killing people in a small town left, right and center. He eventually finds the home of Lt. Parker, who is investigating his crimes, and savagely murders Parker's wife, son and daughter. His other son, Jonathan has a strange connection to Pinker through his dreams, and he directs his father to Pinker's business, where a small group of officers enter. Pinker escapes in a horrific spree, killing four officers and then targeting Jonathan's girlfriend, Alison. Another dream leads Jonathan and his dad to a residence where they catch Pinker in in the act of kidnapping. Pinker is arrested after a fight with Jonathan and sentenced to die in the electric chair. When executed, Pinker - who supposedly had given his soul to the devil in exchange for the power to come back as an energy source - takes over people's bodies and continues committing murders, until Jonathan devises a plan to bring Pinker into the real world, and then cut off his power source...

Plot Keywords: serial killer, adopted son, police detective, girlfriend, televangelist, victim, frightening ...

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#8. Chemical Wedding (2008)

Storyline: In 1947, noted Neo-Pagan Aleister Crowley dies. In Cambridge, 43 years later, with the help of a computer, Crowley's spirit takes over the body of Haddo, a mild-mannered, stuttering don. Over four days, as Crowley prepares for an occult extravaganza, bodies pile up, Crowley's elect engage in rites of passage, and Lia, a red-headed campus reporter, sniffs out a story that puts her in grave danger. Mathers, a scientist recently arrived from Cal Tech, may hold the key to her destiny.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: occultist, teacher, creepy, cambridge university, black magic, mystery, 1940s ...

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#9. Blood of Dracula (1957)

Storyline: In a girl's boarding school, science teacher, Miss Branding, tests her theory that there is power within the human potential that is beyond that of the atom. Using hypnosis and a special amulet, a new and troubled student, Nancy Perkins, becomes the subject of her experiments which result in a series of full-moon murders.—alfiehitchie

Plot Keywords: vampire, teacher, headmistress, teen girl, teen boy, dark, creepy ...

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#10. Death of Me (2020)

Storyline: Vacationing on an island off the coast of Thailand, couple Neil and Christine awake hungover and with no memory of the previous night. They find footage on Neil's camera, and watch, horrified, as Neil appears to murder Christine. With twenty-four hours until the next ferry and a typhoon threatening the island, Christine and Neil attempt to reconstruct the night's events -- and are snared in a web of mystery, black magic, and murder.—Production

Plot Keywords: couple, murder suspect, creepy, dark, suspenseful, island, thailand ...

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#11. The Convent (2018)

Storyline: Early in the seventeenth century, a young woman, Persephone, is falsely accused, arrested and put on trial for her life. Her fate seems sealed but for the timely intervention of a stranger, the mysterious Reverend Mother, who offers Persephone not just sanctuary, but hope. For the Reverend Mother is the self-appointed leader of a small religious retreat, a secluded Priory, where she and her fellow Sisters can devote their lives to the Lord and seek atonement for their pasts. But upon her arrival, Persephone is plagued with terrifying visions and soon realizes that it's not Salvation that awaits her, but a battle for her very soul itself.—Paul Hyett & Conal Palmer

Plot Keywords: wrongly accused, innocent woman, priest, judge, nun, brutal, bleak ...

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