Sub-genre
Demonic & Possession
😈 Every demonic & possession title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
792 titles
The Field Guide to Evil
›2019 · Horror · 117m · Marlene Hauser, Luzia Oppermann, Birgit Minichmayr
A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.
Saint Catherine
›2024 · Horror · 86m · Raymond E. Lee, Pachi Lucas, Julia Kraiselburd
An orphaned girl is rescued from a satanic ritual and taken to Saint Catherine Institute for homeless youth. There she will learn new skills while facing demons that stalk her.
South of HellSeries
›TV-142015 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Mena Suvari, Zachary Booth, Lamman Rucker
A supernatural thriller set in South Carolina, South Of Hell focuses on Maria Abascal (Suvari), a stunning demon-hunter-for-hire whose power stems from within. Like those she hunts, Maria is divided within herself, struggling with her own demon, Abigail, who resides inside of her, feeding on the evil Maria exorcises from others. Maria and Abigail share a soul and a destiny, but as Maria desperately tries to overtake Abigail, she will discover how far Abigail will go to remain a part of her.
Something Evil
›1972 · Horror, TV Movie · 73m · Sandy Dennis, Darren McGavin, Ralph Bellamy
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.
Demons of the Mind
›R1972 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Robert Hardy, Shane Briant, Gillian Hills
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
The Black String
›2018 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 90m · Frankie Muniz, Ravi Patel, Jackie Moore
When a suburban slacker has a reckless encounter with a mysterious woman, his life begins to unravel in horrific fashion. His friends and family believe he's losing his mind, but he's convinced something far more sinister is taking place.
Satan's Slave
›R1976 · Horror · 90m · Michael Gough, Martin Potter, Candace Glendenning
A young girl is caught up in a devil cult run by her wicked uncle and cousin. She can trust no one and even those she thought were dead return to haunt her.
The She Beast
›NR1966 · Thriller, Horror, Comedy · 79m · Barbara Steele, John Karlsen, Ian Ogilvy
A young woman is driving alongside a lake. She has an accident and the car plunges into the water. Her body is then possessed by the spirit of an 18th-century witch who was killed by local villagers, and is bent on avenging herself on them.
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter
›R1992 · Horror · 104m · Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Charles Klausmeyer, Maria Ford
A creature of demonic nature, too hideous to have a name, once again terrorizes the college kids that summoned it.
Heidi
›NR2014 · Horror · 93m · Samuel Brian, Joei Fulco, Joey Bell
After discovering a mysterious doll in an attic, two high school friends are increasingly plagued by a series of disturbing and unexplained events.
Satan's School for Girls
›R1973 · Mystery, Horror, TV Movie · 78m · Pamela Franklin, Kate Jackson, Lloyd Bochner
Within the grim walls of Fallbridge College for Girls is Elizabeth Sayers, a new student who, under an assumed name, hopes to learn the truth behind her younger sister's apparent suicide. Our heroine soon learns that the school is in the clutches of a coven of witches called 'The Five' — and that she herself has the right satanic qualities to enable The Five to take over the world!
Beyond the Door III
›1989 · Horror · 94m · Mary Kohnert, Bo Svenson, Victoria Zinny
A shy co-ed and her classmates travel to Europe to see a ritual. With a satanist/professor with them, he lures them into deadly traps to become sacrifices to Satan. One co-ed is a virgin, the main key to bring Satan back to life. But can the co-ed lose her virginity before Satan controls the world?
Revealer
›2022 · Horror · 86m · Caito Aase, Shaina Schrooten, Bishop Stevens
Tensions rise when a stripper and religious protester are trapped together in a peep show booth and must come together to survive the apocalypse in 1980s Chicago.
Karma
›2018 · Horror · 90m · Mandela Van Peebles, Brytni Sarpy, Kanoa Goo
When recent college grad Manny has trouble making ends meet, his father-in-law offers him a job evicting delinquent tenants. Manny soon finds himself unleashing a karma demon which stalks him at every turn.
I'm Dangerous Tonight
›R1990 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 88m · Mädchen Amick, Corey Parker, Daisy Hall
An ancient Aztec cloth with a curse accidentally finds its way into the possession of a young woman. She decides to make a dress from the cloth. Whoever wears this cloth/dress comes under its spell; all inhibitions and moral responsibilities are lost.
Killjoy Goes to Hell
›R2012 · Horror · 90m · Trent Haaga, Victoria De Mare, Al Burke
Killjoy is back in the fourth installment of the demonic clown series. This time Killjoy is being accused of not being evil, since he let one of his victims(Sandie) get away. Killjoy must rely on his only chance of proving how evil he really is... get Sandie into hell as his witness.
The Amityville Horror
›R2005 · Horror · 90m · Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Jesse James
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
›R1985 · Horror · 87m · Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Kim Myers
A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.
Children of the Corn
›R1984 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R.G. Armstrong
A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
›R1992 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Terry Farrell, Doug Bradley, Kevin Bernhardt
Pinhead is set loose on the sinful streets of New York City to create chaos with a fresh cadre of Cenobitic kin.
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
›PG-131986 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke
The Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. But the Beast is not to be put off so easily and appears in a ghostly apparition as the Reverend Kane, a religious zealot responsible for the deaths of his many followers. His goal is simple - he wants the angelic Carol Anne.
The Possession of Michael King
›R2014 · Horror · 83m · Shane Johnson, Ella Anderson, Cara Pifko
The film tells the story of documentary filmmaker Michael King (Shane Johnson), who doesn’t believe in God or the Devil. Following the sudden death of his wife, Michael decides to make his next film about the search for the existence of the supernatural, making himself the center of the experiment – allowing demonologists, necromancers, and various practitioners of the occult to try the deepest and darkest spells and rituals they can find on him – in the hopes that when they fail, he’ll once and for all have proof that religion, spiritualism, and the paranormal are nothing more than myth. But something does happen. An evil and horrifying force has taken over Michael King. And it will not let him go.
The Keep
›R1983 · Horror, Fantasy · 96m · Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson, Jürgen Prochnow
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. Two of the soldiers unwittingly release a mysterious entity that kills or corrupts those within its influence, drawing the attention of a Gestapo commander, a Jewish scholar, and a mysterious traveller.
Clock
›R2023 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Dianna Agron, Melora Hardin, Jay Ali
On the eve of her 38th birthday, a woman desperately attempts to fix her broken biological clock.
