
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

Amityville: Dollhouse
›R1996 · Horror · 96m · Robin Thomas, Starr Andreeff, Allen Cutler
Bill Martin has just finished construction on a picturesque new home for his family, but unknown to him, the previously barren property was once the site of the infamous Amityville murder house, which contains demonic entities with murderous sights on the family.

Faust: Love of the Damned
›2000 · Horror, Fantasy, Action · 98m · Mark Frost, Isabel Brook, Jennifer Rope
An artist sells his soul to the mysterious M in order to get revenge on the people who killed his girlfriend. Soon, he realises everything has a price, and he is transformed into a horned demon with a passion for killing.

Red Sands
›R2009 · Action, Horror, War · 89m · Shane West, Leonard Roberts, Aldis Hodge
A group of U.S. soldiers on a mission in the Middle East find themselves with nothing to do in their free time. Out of sheer boredom they end up destroying an old statue in the desert, only to unleash a horrific entity.

The Violent Kind
›R2010 · Horror · 89m · Cory Knauf, Taylor Cole, Bret Roberts
One night at a secluded farmhouse deep in the Northern California woods, a small group of hardened young bikers and their girlfriends are tormented when one of the girls becomes savagely possessed and a gang of "Rockabillies" seemingly from the 1950's descends upon them to collect what is growing inside her.

Knucklebones
›2016 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Julin Jean, Tom Zembrod, Erin Marie Garrett
A group of bored college students unleash a murderous demon while playing a dice game made from human knucklebones.

Blessed
›R2004 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 98m · Heather Graham, James Purefoy, Fionnula Flanagan
Heather Graham and James Purefoy play a couple who desperately want to have a baby. Unfortunately, she has been diagnosed as infertile, and the couple can't afford the medical treatments that might allow her to conceive. Good fortune appears to be smiling on the couple when they are given an opportunity to receive free treatments at a mysterious fertility clinic.

Nightmare Man
›R2006 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Tiffany Shepis, Blythe Metz, Luciano Szafir
Ellen receives an exotic mask by mistake and begins to have waking nightmares and hallucinations. Her husband and doctors believe she is a paranoid schizophrenic and take her to a psychiatric ward. On the way to the hospital the car breaks down, her husband rushes off to get gas, and the Nightmare Man appears. Ellen escapes and stumbles upon a country house where two young couples are spending the weekend. They do not know if the killer is real or just a figment of Ellen's tortured mind nor if the killer is outside or already inside the house.

The Black Waters of Echo's Pond
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Robert Patrick, Danielle Harris, James Duval
Nine friends take a holiday at a Victorian home on a private island and uncover a game that when played brings out the worst in each of them. Jealously, greed, hatred, lust, all of the things they keep buried deep inside themselves rise to the surface and come to a boil.

Speak No Evil
›2013 · Horror · 74m · Gabrielle Stone, Olivia Cavender, Carl Jensen IV
Single mother Anna fights to protect her daughter from demonically possessed children and a town gone mad.

Inkubus
›R2011 · Horror · 82m · Robert Englund, William Forsythe, Jonathan Silverman
Inkubus tells the story of a skeleton crew working the final shift at a soon to be demolished police station. The night takes a gruesome turn when the demon, Inkubus, calmly walks into the station holding the severed head of a murdered girl. Inkubus toys with the crew, allowing himself to be restrained, and begins to proudly confess to his litany of crimes, some dating back to the Middle Ages. Why? Inkubus has a score to settle with the one detective that almost put him away some thirteen years ago. To their dismay, the cops quickly become pawns in Inkubus' brutal crowning achievement of murder, gore, and mayhem. They ultimately realize it's his world, they only die in it. Written by Anonymous (www.imdb.com)

Killer Pad
›R2008 · Comedy, Horror · 84m · Daniel Franzese, Eric Jungmann, Emily Baldoni
Three naïve guys, in their 20s, drive from Illinois to LA. A sleazy real-estate agent gives them a great deal on a house in the Hollywood Hills. The night they arrive, a solitary Mexican, who speaks only Spanish, tries to warn them that the place is possessed by Satan. They don't understand him, move in, and plan a party after they meet Lucy, their gorgeous neighbor from down the hill. An old friend of theirs, studying to be a priest, joins them. In the basement is a portal to Hell, so at the party, guests meet their end in various ways. Lucy and her friends may not be who the lads think. Is there any hope for these innocents? Maybe their neutered dog can help.

Blood Feast
›2016 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Robert Rusler, Sophie Monk, Herschell Gordon Lewis
Fuad Ramses and his family have moved from the United States to France, where they run a American diner. Since business is not going too well, Fuad also works night shifts in a museum of Egyptian culture. During these long lonely nights he is repeatedly drawn to a statue representing the seductive ancient goddess ISHTAR. He becomes more and more allured by the goddess as she speaks to him in visions. Eventually he succumbs to her deadly charms.

A Demon Within
›2017 · Horror, Drama, Romance · 91m · Charlene Amoia, Clint Glenn Hummel, Patricia Ashley
A skeptical, small town doctor is forced to confront his personal demons in order to save the life of a teenage girl who has become possessed in his family's old house.

Seance
›R2012 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Bobby Campo, Nazneen Contractor, Chris Olivero
After a loudmouth college punk singer accuses an amateur medium of being a fake, four college students break into the city morgue and video themselves holding a seance. When the kids summon a demon by mistake, they have to find a way to drive the demon out of their friend before it destroys them all.

The Binding
›NR2016 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 88m · Max Adler, Larry Cedar, Kate Fuglei
A young woman's faith is put to the ultimate test when she is forced to uncover the truth behind her husband's horrific visions.

The Vatican Exorcisms
›PG-132013 · Horror, Documentary, Mystery · 77m · Joe Marino, Piero Maggiò, Anella Vastola
The Vatican Exorcisms was shot by Joe Marino, an American film-maker who went to Italy to shed light on the phenomenon of exorcisms. Accompanied by Padre Luigi, a true exorcist, Joe travels to the south of Italy, a place where the sacred and profane have always lived together, where Christian rituals are inextricably linked to the pagan ones.

Paranormal Activity 4
›R2012 · Horror · 87m · Katie Featherston, Kathryn Newton, Matt Shively
It has been five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter, and a suburban family witness strange events in their neighborhood when a woman and a mysterious child move in.

The Vatican Tapes
›R2015 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Olivia Taylor Dudley, Michael Peña, Peter Andersson
In a highly secured vault deep within the walls of Vatican City, the Catholic Church holds thousands of old films and video footage documenting exorcisms/supposed exorcisms and other unexplained religious phenomena they feel the world is not ready to see. This is the first tape - Case 83-G - stolen from these archives and exposed to the public by an anonymous source.

Hellboy: The Crooked Man
›R2024 · Fantasy, Horror, Action · 100m · Jack Kesy, Jefferson White, Adeline Rudolph
Hellboy and a rookie BPRD agent get stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia. There, they discover a small community haunted by witches, led by a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy's past: the Crooked Man.

The Crucifixion
›R2017 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 90m · Sophie Cookson, Corneliu Ulici, Ada Lupu
When a priest is jailed for the murder of a nun on whom he was performing an exorcism, an investigative journalist strives to determine whether he in fact murdered a mentally ill person, or if he lost the battle with a demonic presence.

Repossessed
›PG-131990 · Comedy, Horror · 84m · Linda Blair, Ned Beatty, Leslie Nielsen
It's been some time since Father Jebedaiah Mayii exorcised the Devil from little Nancy Aglet, who is now grown up with a husband and two children of her own. But the prince of darkness wants to go a second round and has returned to repossess her! With Father Mayii unwilling to help, Father Luke Brophy tries his best to help Nancy, even when TV's Ernest Weller plans to air the exorcism live on TV.

Bless the Child
›R2000 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 107m · Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Rufus Sewell
When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new husband, Eric Stark, abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently murdered children.

The Seventh Day
›R2021 · Horror · 87m · Guy Pearce, Vadhir Derbez, Stephen Lang
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.

Escape Room
›2017 · Horror, Thriller, Fantasy · 86m · Skeet Ulrich, Sean Young, Christine Donlon
Four friends who partake in a popular Los Angeles escape room find themselves stuck with a demonically possessed killer. They have less than an hour to solve the puzzles needed to escape the room alive.
