Sub-genre
Witchcraft & Occult
🕯 Every witchcraft & occult title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
742 titles
V/H/S/Halloween
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller · 115m · Samantha Cochran, Natalia Montgomery Fernandez, Elena Musser
A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival.
Wake Wood
›R2011 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Aidan Gillen, Eva Birthistle, Timothy Spall
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
The Golem
›R2018 · Horror, Drama · 95m · Hani Furstenberg, Ishai Golan, Lenny Ravich
A re-imagining of the old mystical folklore that follows a woman and a tight-knit Jewish community that is besieged by foreign invaders. She conjures a dangerous creature to protect them but it may be more evil than she ever imagined.
The Pit and the Pendulum
›R1991 · Horror, Romance · 97m · Lance Henriksen, Stephen Lee, William Norris
Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror at the public whipping of a child. As Maria’s husband Antonio tries to save her, Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, determines to punish Maria with torture for the desire she inflames in him. Loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story.
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
›1993 · Family, TV Movie, Horror · 96m · Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Cloris Leachman
On Halloween night, two precocious little girls try to save their parents from their nasty old capitalist aunt's greedy clutches. Magic abounds and they meet mysterious new friends along the way.
She Will
›2022 · Drama, Horror · 95m · Alice Krige, Kota Eberhardt, Malcolm McDowell
Veronica, an aging film star, retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse Desi to recover from a double mastectomy. While there, mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.
Spellbinder
›R1988 · Horror, Drama, Romance · 99m · Tim Daly, Kelly Preston, Rick Rossovich
After leaving work one night, Los Angeles attorney Jeff Mills and his colleague rescue a young, beautiful woman from an abusive boyfriend. Jeff soon becomes romantically involved with her and embroiled in the web of intrigue that follows her, despite a string of ominous happenstances and repeated warnings from his secretary.
Doctor Sleep
›R2002 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 108m · Goran Višnjić, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson
While treating a policewoman for smoking, hypnotherapist Michael Strother has a telepathic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a stream. The escaped victim of a ritualistic serial killer, the girl has become mute, and Michael is called upon by Scotland Yard to unlock the secrets she holds in order to catch a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
›PG-131971 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 87m · Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
Chastity Bites
›2013 · Horror, Comedy · 93m · Louise Griffiths, Allison Scagliotti, Eduardo Rioseco
Serial killer Countess Elizabeth Bathory believed that bathing in virgin blood would keep her young and beautiful forever. Still alive today, she's found a perfect hunting ground for her "botox" as an abstinence educator in conservative America...but will she finally be stopped by a brave young blogger and reporter for the high school paper?
The Dark Red
›2020 · Horror, Mystery · 101m · April Billingsley, Kelsey Scott, Conal Byrne
A young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital and claims her newborn was stolen by a dark cult.
100 Candles Game: The Last Possession
›2023 · Horror · 76m · Magui Bravi, Nacho Francavilla, Josefina Inés Fariña
Influencer bloggers evoke spirit of vanished "black countess" during ritual at her mansion. She disappeared playing dimensional game. Their ritual unleashes otherworldly demons, and survivors must banish them back.
The Spell
›NR1977 · Horror, TV Movie · 86m · Lee Grant, Susan Myers, Lelia Goldoni
A distraught mother must cope with her embittered daughter who has the ability to cause "accidents" to happen.
The Initiation of Sarah
›1978 · Horror, TV Movie · 96m · Kay Lenz, Shelley Winters, Tony Bill
Shy misfit Sarah Goodwin has a secret gift: the ability to control — and destroy — with her mind. When Sarah goes off to college with her more outgoing and popular sister, Patty, their plans to join the most prestigious sorority on campus are scuttled by snobby president, Jennifer Lawrence. Separated from her sister, Sarah is taken in by a rival, less popular sorority, whose mysterious house mother, Mrs. Hunter, is harboring a secret of her own: a scheme to harness Sarah's terrifying power for revenge. Betrayed by Patty, humiliated by Jennifer, it can only be a matter of time before Sorority Hell Week erupts in flame!
Dante's CoveSeries
›TV-MA2005 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Soap · 3 seasons · Tracy Scoggins, William Gregory Lee, Gregory Michael
A young gay couple must overcome dark, mystical forces conspiring against them, starting with a vengeful 19th century witch and her cheating warlock fiance.
The House That Would Not Die
›NR1970 · Horror, TV Movie · 74m · Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Egan, Michael Anderson Jr.
A tale of witchcraft, black magic and a haunted house in the Amish country.
Deliver Us from Evil
›R2014 · Thriller, Crime, Horror · 118m · Eric Bana, Olivia Munn, Edgar Ramírez
When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation for the bizarre crimes. However, his eyes are opened to a frightening alternate reality when renegade Jesuit priest Mendoza convinces him that demonic possession may be to blame for the gruesome murders. Together, they wage a valiant supernatural struggle to rid the city of an otherworldly evil.
Tales of Halloween
›R2015 · Horror, Comedy, Thriller · 97m · Adrienne Barbeau, Keir Gilchrist, Kristina Klebe
Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff of nightmares.
Nocturne
›NR2020 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Sydney Sweeney, Madison Iseman, Jacques Colimon
Inside the halls of an elite arts academy, a timid music student begins to outshine her more accomplished and outgoing twin sister when she discovers a mysterious notebook belonging to a recently deceased classmate.
The Gate
›PG-131987 · Horror, Fantasy · 86m · Stephen Dorff, Christa Denton, Louis Tripp
Three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally taking over the Earth.
The Woods
›R2006 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Agnes Bruckner, Emma Campbell, Bruce Campbell
In 1965 New England, a troubled girl encounters mysterious happenings in the woods surrounding an isolated girls school that she was sent to by her estranged parents.
Outpost
›R2008 · Action, Adventure, Horror · 90m · Ray Stevenson, Julian Wadham, Richard Brake
In a seedy bar in a town ravaged by war, scientist and businessman Hunt hires mercenary and former Royal Marine D.C. to assemble a crack team of ex-soldiers to protect him on a dangerous journey into no-man's land. Their mission is to scope out an old military bunker in Eastern Europe. It should be easy – 48 hours at the most. Lots of cash for little risk. Or so he says...
Monster Summer
›PG-132024 · Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery · 98m · Mel Gibson, Mason Thames, Julian Lerner
When a mysterious force begins to disrupt their big summer fun, Noah and his friends team up with a retired police detective to embark on a monstrous adventure to save their island.
Gothic
›R1987 · Horror · 88m · Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.
