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Plot Summary:
While leading a police investigation of a massacre in a public school at the border of Mexico and U.S.A, special Agent Emanuel Ritter links this strange case to the coming and rising of the ancient demon Belzebuth. But in order to stop the trail of upcoming infanticides, Ritter shall have to confront himself before dealing with the forces of good and evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, detective, neo noir, gothic horror, tense, disturbing, controversial
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8: A South African Horror Story (2019)
Plot Summary:
An old man, fated to collect souls for eternity, seeks atonement after trading his daughter's soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, slasher
Similar in 78%
Demonoid: Messenger of Death (1981)
Plot Summary:
A British woman visits her husband at the Mexican mine he is attempting to reopen and discovers that the workers refuse to enter the mine fearing an ancient curse. The couple enter the mine to prove there is no danger and inadvertently release a demon which possess people's left hands and forces them to behave in a suitably diabolical manner. The only way for a possessed person to free themselves from this torment is to cut off their left hand after which it scurries away in search of its next victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, gothic horror, classic horror, surprise ending, twist ending, psychotronic, independent film, lovecraft, spooky
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Exorcismo (1975)
Plot Summary:
A priest struggles to save the life of a young woman who is possessed by the malevolent spirit of her father.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, demonic, bleak, scary, rough, disturbing, satanic, cult film
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Werewolves on Wheels (1971)
Plot Summary:
A biker gang visits a monastery where they encounter black-robed monks engaged in worshipping Satan. When the monks try to persuade one of the female bikers, Helen, to become a satanic sacrifice the bikers smash up the monastery and leave. The monks have the last laugh, though, as Helen, as a result of the satanic rituals, is now possessed and at night changes into a werewolf, with dire results for the biker gang.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, gothic horror, classic horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, bizarre
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Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers (2006)
Plot Summary:
The film takes place in an undisclosed part of Florida, in which a priest is called upon to help exorcise Gail Bowers, who has come to be possessed by malevolent forces.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: demonic, tense, suspense, mockbuster, psychological, captivating, suspenseful
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Mark of the Devil (2020)
Plot Summary:
An exorcist priest meets a family that has a daughter who is pursued by a demon.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, rough
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The Exorcism of Carmen Farias (2021)
Plot Summary:
Carmen, a brave journalist, discovers soon after her mother's death that she has inherited her grandma's house. She decides to move there without knowing it hides dark secrets.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Land of the Minotaur (1976)
Plot Summary:
A satanic cult kidnaps 3 young people and Priest Donald Pleasence and Costas Skouras must save them from the hands of this evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Greece, UK, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult classic, satanic, independent film, scary, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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Asmodexia (2014)
Plot Summary:
Eloy de Palma is an exorcist pastor roaming the darkest corners of the country with his granddaughter Alba. Their mission is to help those possessed by The Evil One, an infection of the soul that is spreading fast. Each exorcism is tougher than the one before, and every battle reveals a piece of Alba’s forgotten past – an enigma that if unconcealed could change the world as we know it.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspenseful, scary, suspense, disturbing, spooky, serious
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Exorcismus (2010)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen-year-old Emma Evans is like any other teenage girl; she thinks that her parents don´t understand her. She longs for independence and a life free of family ties and responsibilities and she is prepared to do anything to achieve it. But one day she will be forced to face up to the consequences of her actions.Life seems to be carrying on as normal, until one day Emma starts experiencing frightening fits. Her parents are convinced that her problems are either medical or psychological, but when doctors´ tests are unable to draw any conclusions, the family is forced to look elsewhere for answers.It all started off as a bit of fun, Emma never really believed it, but the truth is there is something dark and sinister within her, and it won´t take long to surface.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, demonic, suspenseful, rough, suspense, religious horror, serious
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Sharon's Baby (1975)
Plot Summary:
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother once spurned. Cue a spate of strange deaths, the one common factor being the presence of a baby in pram at the scene.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, satanic, supernatural thriller, psychotronic, independent film
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Curandero (2005)
Plot Summary:
A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, rough, suspense, perverse, psychotronic
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The Devil's Rain (1975)
Plot Summary:
Satanists in the middle west terrorize and sometimes melt the terrified locals.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: satanic, surprise ending, scary, independent film, serious, psychotronic, suspense, surreal, demonic, art house
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Ominous (2015)
Plot Summary:
Michael and Rachel are devastated when their six-year-old son dies in a tragic accident. When a stranger offers to bring the boy back to life, they take the offer. However, the child who returns is not the child they once knew.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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The Exorcism of Molly Hartley (2015)
Plot Summary:
Taking place years after The Haunting of Molly Hartley, who now, as an adult, has fallen under the possession of an evil spirit and must be exorcised by a fallen priest before the devil completely takes her.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense, dark, disturbing, philosophical, demonic, teen horror
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American Guinea Pig: The Song of Solomon (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Catholic Church is trying to save an innocent soul from the ravages of satanic possession. Wave after wave of holy men are sent to confront the possessed.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: bloody, splatter, psychotronic, disturbing, scary, bleak, psychedelic, extreme horror, terrifying, demonic
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Demon Resurrection (2008)
Plot Summary:
In an isolated house, a group of friends battle supernatural forces as they try to protect a young woman from an evil cult in this low-budget shocker that pays homage to 70s horror and exploitation classics.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, lovecraft, independent film, grindhouse, psychotronic
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Evilspeak (1981)
Plot Summary:
Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, satanic, psychotronic, grindhouse, bloody, demonic, homoerotic, cult classic, terrifying
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Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Plot Summary:
Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a hypnotic research specialist free her from its grasp?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: demonic, scary, suspense, surreal, splatter, cult horror, psychological, slasher, religious horror, saga
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Damien: Omen II (1978)
Plot Summary:
Since the sudden and highly suspicious death of his parents, 12-year-old Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle (Lee Grant and William Holden). Widely feared to be the Antichrist, Damien relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire - and the world. Meanwhile, anyone attempting to unravel the secrets of Damien's sinister past or fiendish future meets with a swift and cruel demise.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, grindhouse, religious horror, demonic, suspense, satanic, creepy, suspenseful, classic horror
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The Devil's Doorway (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the fall of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, demonic, mockumentary, psychological thriller, slasher, controversial, biblical
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Dabbe: The Possession (2013)
Plot Summary:
Preparing for her wedding, Kübra gets possessed by unknown livings. To cure Kübra, a psychiatrist, Ebru, gets on way. Ebru is also an old friend of Kübra. Ebru would work together with an exorcist to save Kübra. Just when things seemed to be going well, everything start going horribly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: Turkey
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: scary, surprise ending, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic
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The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Plot Summary:
The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, dark, atmospheric, satanic, grindhouse, creepy
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Alucarda (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: satanic, gothic horror, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, disturbing, gothic, splatter, suspense
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To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
Plot Summary:
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: satanic, scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic, sexy
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Twins of Evil (1971)
Plot Summary:
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Gustav's zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gothic, satanic, sexy, slasher, demonic
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Satanic (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four friends on their way to Coachella stop off in Los Angeles to tour true-crime occult sites, only to encounter a mysterious young runaway who puts them on a terrifying path to ultimate horror.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, satanic, demonic, interesting, weird
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The Exorcist (1973)
Plot Summary:
12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 446000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, satanic, psychological, demonic, frightening, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy
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The Amityville Horror (1979)
Plot Summary:
George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is brought in to try and exorcise the demonic presence from their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy, demonic, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, cult classic
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Drag Me to Hell (2009)
Plot Summary:
After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 215000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, demonic, atmospheric, suspense, serious, dark fantasy, psychological, disturbing, dark comedy