Supernatural (2005), Haxan (1922), Clive Barker's Book of Blood (2008), The Gathering (1977), Justice League Dark (2017), The Dark Red (2018), Night of the Demon (1957), The Wicker Man (1973) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Occult movies.
Storyline: Det. John Hobbes is convinced that when killer Edgar Reese is executed, all of his troubles are over. But when people he knows and people on the street start to sing the same tune that Reese sang in the gas chamber, and those same people taunt him, he is told that maybe the cursed fallen angel Azazel is behind it all. Azazel is cursed to roam the Earth without a form, and he can switch bodies by any contact, making him hard to track. When Hobbes is forced to kill a man possessed by Azazel, he must clear his name while protecting his family and others from the evil, vengeful Azazel.
Plot Keywords: supernatural, thriller, horror, drama, mystery, crime, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John Constantine is approached by Det. Angela Dodson who needs his help to prove that her twin sister Isabel's death was not a suicide. The dead woman was a devout Catholic and Angela refuses to accept she would have taken her own life. She's asked Constantine for help because he has a reputation for dealing with the mystical. In fact, he is a demon hunter whose sole purpose on Earth is to send demons back to the nether regions. John himself has been to Hell and knows that he is destined to return there on his death - but hopes his good deeds may find him a place in Heaven. As he looks into Isabel's death, he realizes demons are trying to break through to the human world, and his battles lead him into a direct conflict with Satan.
Plot Keywords: supernatural, exorcism, hell, heaven, demons, religion, occult ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: All of us have made certain efforts so our in-laws will like us, but Grace is going to have to give it her all if she wants to fit in with her brand new husband's wealthy dynasty, who require her to follow a brutal tradition: for the bride to try to survive her wedding night while the rest of them hunt her down. The class struggle stuff hits the proverbial fan in this extremely black satire starring a brilliant Samara Weaving and including an uncommonly perverse Andie MacDowell.—Sitges Film Festival
Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, thriller, dark comedy, satire, action, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The cellar of an old hotel is built on top of the door to the beyond. Bloody zombies roam there. A young woman who is heir of the hotel wants to restaurate it. She is confronted with strange events. A painter has a lethal fall, the plumber vanishes and her friend breaks his neck. When she escapes to the hospital of a friendly doctor she doesn't know what a nightmare is waiting there...
Plot Keywords: horror, supernatural, haunted house, hell, curse, gore, cult ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At the end of World War II, Nazi officers Karl Ruprecht Kroenen and Ilsa Haupstein start an experiment to raise the forces of Hell trough Russian dark mystic Rasputin on a Scottish island, but it's interrupted by an allied commando guided by professor Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm. He prevents killing the human-demonic half-blood, which was accidentally created and raises this "Hellboy", while rising to head of a secret C.I.A.-linked U.S. agency Bureau of Paranormal Research, which secretly studies and uses the occult, including supernatural freaks. As "father" Broom is aging, he hand-picks brilliant, sensitive Agent John Myers as new minder-companion, as regular "warrior" Agent Clay can't empathize and lacks flexibility mental. Hellboy is quite a handful, regularly spotted by worried civilians on unauthorized excursions, especially to pyro-telekinetic freak friend in a mental asylum. Johnny, Hellboy, and Clay team up on missions against paranormal threats with aquatic-bionic freak Abe ...
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, fantasy, superhero, comic book adaptation, dark fantasy, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It is 1888 in London, and the unfortunate poor lead horrifying lives in the city's deadliest slum, Whitechapel. Harassed by gangs and forced to walk the streets for a living, Mary Kelly and her small group of companions trudge on through this daily misery, their only consolation being that things can't get any worse. Yet things somehow do when their friend Ann is kidnapped and they are drawn into a conspiracy with links higher up than they could possibly imagine. The kidnapping is soon followed by the gruesome murder of another woman, Polly, and it becomes apparent that they are being hunted down, one by one. Sinister even by Whitechapel standards, the murder grabs the attention of Inspector Fred Abberline, a brilliant yet troubled man whose police work is often aided by his psychic abilities. Abberline becomes deeply involved with the case, which takes on personal meaning to him when he and Mary begin to fall in love. But as he gets closer to the truth, Whitechapel becomes more and ...
Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, crime, thriller, historical, serial killer, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In New York, the money-driven dealer Dean Corso is a rare-books expert and partner of Bernie, who owns a bookstore. He is contacted by the renowned collector of books about the devil Boris Balkan, who has just acquired the rare The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows from the collector Andrew Telfer, to verify whether his book is authentic or a forgery. Balkan explains that the book was written by the writer Aristide Torchia, in 1666, with Lucifer and he was burned at the stake with his entire work. There are only three exemplars of The Nine Gates and in accordance with the legend, its nine engravings form a riddle to conjure the devil. The skeptical Corso accepts the assignment and has to fly to Sintra, Portugal, and Paris, France, to contact the owners Victor Fargas and Baroness Kessler and find the genuine exemplar for Balkan. Meanwhile, he asks Bernie to hide the rare book. Before traveling to Europe, the widow Liana Telfer wants to retrieve the book and has sex with Corso, but ...
Plot Keywords: supernatural, mystery, thriller, demonic, books, occult, religion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this tongue-in-cheek movie inspired by Poe's poem, Dr. Craven is the son of a great sorcerer (now dead) who was once himself quite skilled at that profession, but has since abandoned it. One evening, a cowardly fool of a magician named Bedlo comes to Craven for help - the evil Scarabus has turned him into a raven and he needs someone to change him back. He also tells the reluctant wizard that Craven's long-lost wife Lenore, whom he loved greatly and thought dead, is living with the despised Scarabus.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, gothic, film noir, revenge, magic, medieval ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives them his blessing. Then, Gerald and Alan go to war. Angered over a misunderstanding involving Alan and Kitty, Gerald sends Alan on a dangerous mission that will change all their lives forever.—George S. Davis <mgeorges@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: horror, vampire, classic, black-and-white, british, supernatural, gothic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A fictional story on the real life work of St. Louis-based Jesuit priest, Father Charles Dismas Clark, is told, he who is assigned to work in a Catholic high school, but who feels he can best serve in providing guidance to convicts and ex-cons, the latter specifically by helping them reintegrate into society, including finding them housing and employment in a society that is less than welcoming to them, largely resulting in those ex-cons once again committing crimes and being sent back to prison otherwise. This work often places him at odds with the authorities as he is unwilling to betray the confidence of those convicts and ex-cons, even in matters of a criminal nature, they who only confide in him in he earning their trust. He is able to enlist the assistance of lawyer Louis Rosen, who eventually buys into Father Clark's view of assisting this marginalized population. The story told is of young ex-con Billy Lee Jackson, just released from prison and who is destined to recommit crimes in being all he knows. Despite their difficult introduction in which Billy wanted to show how tough he is, Father Clark is able to get through to him to help him find gainful employment as well as a place to live. In the process, Billy is eventually even able to find love, with socialite Ellen Henley who can see the inherent goodness in him. The problem becomes if Billy will turn back to a life of crime if he feels that even one person isn't giving him a fair shake. Things become even more complicated with journalist George McHale, who wants it both ways by trying to write an exposé of Father Clark in what he sees as the Father's protection of the criminal element, while glorifying crime in the way he shapes his stories.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, psychological horror, supernatural, occult, cult ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Riddled with secret but horrid suspicion, the young American poet, Rose Elliot, writes to her brother and musicology student in Rome, Mark, about the startling findings in the dark and dank basement of her New York Art Deco apartment building. Pivoting around the cryptic knowledge hidden in the leather-bound book entitled "The Three Mothers", Rose is convinced that her aristocratic but damned abode is, in fact, an ancient coven for Mater Tenebrarum, the malevolent Mother of Darkness. Little by little, as the siblings delve deeper and deeper into the occult, a mysterious disappearance and an endless string of gruesome killings will bring Mark closer and closer to a surreal nightmare. Where do the long and shadowy corridors of Rose's building lead?
Plot Keywords: horror, suspense, supernatural, demonic, cult, mystery, gore ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "Some people lose their faith because Heaven shows them too little," says Thomas Daggett. "But how many people lose their faith because Heaven showed them too much?" Daggett nearly became a priest; now he's a cop. He may want to put religion behind him, but one morning a weird, eyeless, hermaphroditic corpse turns up. Suddenly he is on a path that will put him right in the middle of a war in Heaven. And once again, Heaven will show him too much: gore, blood, charred flesh, living corpses and much worse. Even more central to the heavenly war effort is a young girl. This American Indian child has something Gabriel wants. And Gabriel is willing to kill her and anyone in his path - or even reanimate a corpse or two - to get it.
Plot Keywords: horror, supernatural, religious, demons, apocalyptic, dark, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, crime, psychological thriller, violence, mystery, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A collector of esoterica, Dr. Maitland, buys an unusual skull from his ordinary source of artifacts. The skull is what remains of marquis De Sade. Much too soon he discovers how the skull affects him: by turning him into a frenzied killer.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, mystery, cult, curse, demon ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A new girl moves to a new city with her family to start a new life. She meets up with the girls who are very interested in the occult and together, the four of them have a seemingly unstopable power. They can do anything, from getting thier dream guys to like them to... the possibilities are limitless.
Plot Keywords: horror, teen, supernatural, high school, friendship, dark fantasy, coming of age ...
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