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Plot Summary:
William Friedkin attends an exorcism with Father Gabriele Amorth, as he treats an Italian woman named Cristina for the ninth time. Prior to filming, Cristina had purportedly been experiencing behavioural changes and “fits” that could not be explained by psychiatry, and which became worse during Christian holidays.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, controversial, demonic, religious horror, fake documentary
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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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Stitches (2001)
Plot Summary:
Combining the body parts and skin from her victims, a wicked sorceress stitches together her subjects.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, suspense, independent film, semi serious
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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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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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616 Wilford Lane (2021)
Plot Summary:
A grieving man relocates his two teen daughters to a charming town and into their dream home. Quickly the dream becomes an inescapable nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful
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The Secrets of Emily Blair (2016)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to save his fiancée from a demon that has possessed her soul, a man turns to his longtime priest for help.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, scary
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The Atticus Institute (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1970s, Dr. Henry West creates an institute to find people with supernatural abilities. When Judith Winstead comes to the facility, she exhibits amazing abilities that the military wants to turn into a weapon.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, demonic, mockumentary, sexy, mystical, psychological thriller, gothic, disturbing
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The Amityville Murders (2018)
Plot Summary:
On the night of November 13th, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. took a high powered rifle and murdered his entire family as they slept. At his trial, DeFeo claimed that 'voices' in the house commanded him to kill. This is their story.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, atmospheric, serious, captivating, demonic, splatter, psychotronic
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Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes (2011)
Plot Summary:
Documentary covering the famous 'demonic possession' case of Anneliese Michel. The film features authentic footage of 'exorcisms' and other shocking events, considered to be the inspiration of the film The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 907
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, demonic, mockumentary, disturbing, mockbuster, religious horror
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Inside (2012)
Plot Summary:
Prison inmate Miles Barrett is ripped awake in the middle of the night by a terrifying crash, gunfire, and the sickening screams of a man being torn apart. Something is loose in the prison - and it's coming for Miles.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, tense, suspense, psychological, rough, serious, independent film
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Dead Inside (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sarah, a mentally-disturbed teen, has a jarring premonition of her friends' impending deaths one night at a sleepover. As her house guests begin to turn murderously against each other, Sarah must determine whether her visions represent the preventable or the inevitable... or something entirely more sinister.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, touching, tense, suspense, slasher
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The Club (1994)
Plot Summary:
Time stops at midnight at the Senior Prom for five students, one murderous counselor, and John. They must find the courage to face themselves or, when time starts again, they may find that they are joining John's Club. All you have to do is commit murder... or suicide.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter, gothic
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The Ouija Exorcism (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1985, a celebrated exorcist trapped a horrific demon inside a ouija board. Thinking the board to be a game, his son played without obeying the rules, and let the demon loose. In order to save his son, the exorcist sent him far away until the demon could be destroyed. Thirty years later, and after his death, his grandson finds the board and makes the same mistake his father did. Now the evil is back and roaming the earth to terrorize those responsible for its imprisonment.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Vatican Exorcisms (2013)
Plot Summary:
Documentary following US film-maker Joe Marino as he heads to Italy to investigate exorcisms and the truth behind rumors of demonic possession.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, demonic, scary, bleak, disturbing
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The Possession Experiment (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a student takes on a theology project, he taps into another side that had been hidden away from him.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, scenic, demonic, religious horror, psychotronic
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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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The Devil Inside (2012)
Plot Summary:
In Italy, a woman becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms during her mission to discover what happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people during her own exorcism.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, demonic, suspense, rough, serious, satanic, terrifying, captivating, disturbing
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Prey for the Devil (2022)
Plot Summary:
Sister Ann is a restless 25-year-old who devoutly believes that performing exorcisms is her calling. But she is at odds with the institution's traditions: nuns are not allowed to perform exorcisms, only priests. With the support of a mentor, a professor who senses her special gift, she is allowed to observe actual training sessions. Her desire to prove herself takes a personal turn when she meets one of the school's most disturbed patients. During their harrowing encounters, Sister Ann comes face to face with a demonic force that infests the school and has mysterious ties to her own past. It is then that the power of evil and her own startling abilities are fully realized.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, tense, suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, unusual plot structure
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Grace (2014)
Plot Summary:
A unique horror film told from the first-person perspective of Grace - a naive, virginal college freshman trying to deal with campus culture and her outgoing roommate as an evil entity takes over her body and unleashes chaos.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, stylized, scary, demonic, mockumentary, serious, surprise ending, psychotronic, weird
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The Seventh Day (2021)
Plot Summary:
A renowned exorcist teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and evil blur, and their own demons emerge.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, contemplative
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Possessed (2000)
Plot Summary:
An 11 year old boy starts throwing temper tantrums, vomiting on and attacking people, and swearing uncontrollably. Furniture begins to move on its own when he is around, and he doesn't remember any of it. After giving up on the protestants, the boy's parents turn to the catholic church for help. Father Bowden is a WWII veteran who is experiencing nightmares, flashbacks and other personal problems, including alcoholism. He is recruited by the archbishop to perform a series of exorcisms. This is the apparent true account of the last exorcism known to have been done by the catholic church.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, demonic, bleak, suspense, religious horror, tense, serious, psychotronic
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7 Deadly Sins (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers look to have the best Spring Break party ever before going off to college. However, when party goers start to die, who's to blame? Themselves? Or the demon they summoned? Charlie's evil spirit creeps in and hands out the ultimate test of survival. Can the kids escape Charlie's grasp? Can they figure out a way to free themselves from his evil game? One night, one house, one chance at survival.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Entity Project (2019)
Plot Summary:
A director and her friends renting a haunted house to capture paranormal events in order to prove it and become popular.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Madres (2021)
Plot Summary:
A Mexican-American couple expecting their first child relocate to a migrant farming community in 1970's California. When the wife begins to experience strange symptoms and terrifying visions, she tries to determine if it's related to a legendary curse or something more nefarious.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, tense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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11th Hour Cleaning (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of crime scene cleaners struggle to escape a murder house after becoming trapped by an ancient Nordic demon that is hell-bent on driving them insane.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Open Door (2008)
Plot Summary:
A pirate radio station is granting callers their hearts' desires. But as some teenagers find out, be careful what you wish for.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, independent film
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The Haunting of Grady Farm (2019)
Plot Summary:
Emily Wolf is the host of a travel show documenting supposed haunted locations around the country. The destination of her next episode happens to be in rural Florida, where her and her cinematographer's old college friends live. Wanting to mix work and pleasure, they decide to have a reunion camping trip on the allegedly haunted land. But, there is no fun to be had when the group learns that the Sluagh are more than folklore.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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 (2005)
Plot Summary:
A family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, creepy, demonic, splatter, stylized, rough, psychological, slasher