The Crypt Charts
The Top 31 Witchcraft & Occult Films
The thirty-one finest witchcraft & occult films in the Vault, ranked by the Crypt Score.
Ranked by Crypt Score · Updated weekly · captured Jul 20, 2026
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Obsession
R2026 · Horror, Thriller · 109m · Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless
After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
Get Out
R2017 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 104m · Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
Night of the Demon
NR1957 · Fantasy, Horror, Mystery · 96m · Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.
Evil Dead II
R1987 · Horror, Comedy, Fantasy · 84m · Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie DePaiva
Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda's body.
The Wicker Man
R1973 · Horror · 93m · Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.
Weapons
R2025 · Horror, Mystery · 129m · Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
1964 · Crime, Thriller, Drama · 116m · Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey, Marie Burke
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
Hereditary
R2018 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 128m · Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Gabriel Byrne, Milly Shapiro
Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
R2026 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 109m · Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman
Dr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship - with consequences that could change the world as they know it - and Spike's encounter with Jimmy Crystal becomes a nightmare he can't escape.
The Devils
R1971 · Drama, History, Horror · 112m · Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian
A charismatic 17th-century French priest becomes the target of a sexually obsessed nun’s witchcraft accusations, which corrupt church and state officials are all too happy to exploit.
Cigarette Burns
2005 · Horror, TV Movie · 59m · Norman Reedus, Udo Kier, Christopher Redman, Chris Gauthier
With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.
The Call of Cthulhu
2006 · Horror, Thriller, Fantasy · 47m · Matt Foyer, John Bolen, Ralph Lucas, Chad Fifer
A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own.
The Evil Dead
NC-171981 · Horror · 85m · Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker
In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.
Sherlock Holmes
PG-132009 · Action, Adventure, Crime · 129m · Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong
Eccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy England.
The Witch
R2016 · Horror · 92m · Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.
Bring Her Back
R2025 · Horror · 104m · Billy Barratt, Sally Hawkins, Mischa Heywood, Jonah Wren Phillips
Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.
Phantom of the Paradise
PG1974 · Comedy, Horror, Music · 92m · William Finley, Paul Williams, Jessica Harper, George Memmoli
Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both Winslow's music and his favorite singer for the grand opening of Swan's new rock palace, the Paradise.
Hokum
R2026 · Horror · 108m · Adam Scott, Peter Coonan, David Wilmot, Florence Ordesh
When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.
The Devil Rides Out
G1968 · Horror · 96m · Christopher Lee, Leon Greene, Patrick Mower, Niké Arrighi
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.
Midsommar
R2019 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 147m · Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Will Poulter
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
Angel Heart
R1987 · Horror, Mystery · 113m · Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling
A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.
The Black Cat
1934 · Horror, Thriller · 65m · Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
Nightmare Alley
R2021 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 151m · Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
The Witches
PG1990 · Fantasy, Family, Horror · 91m · Jasen Fisher, Mai Zetterling, Anjelica Huston, Charlie Potter
While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical formula. When they discover the eavesdropper, the witches test the formula on him. Now, with the help of Helga and hotel manager Mr Stringer, Luke the mouse must fight back against the witches.
Witchfinder General
NR1968 · Drama, History, Horror · 87m · Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Robert Russell, Nicky Henson
England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.
The Last Wave
PG1977 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 106m · Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.
The Seventh Victim
1943 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 71m · Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Hugh Beaumont
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1965 · Horror · 98m · Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Roy Castle, Alan Freeman
Five train passengers are joined by a mysterious fortuneteller who offers to read Tarot. A quintet of stories unfold: an architect returns to his ancestral home to find a vengeful werewolf; a doctor suspects his new wife is a vampire; an intelligent vine takes over a house; a jazz musician plagiarises music from a voodoo ceremony; and a pompous art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.
Ready or Not
R2019 · Horror, Comedy · 96m · Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien, Henry Czerny
A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.
Wild at Heart
R1990 · Crime, Thriller, Romance · 125m · Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
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