
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

The Believers
›R1987 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 114m · Martin Sheen, Helen Shaver, Harley Cross
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

V/H/S/85
›NR2023 · Horror, Thriller · 111m · Alex Galick, Anna Sundberg, Chelsey Grant
Unveiled through a made-for-TV documentary, five chilling tales of found footage horror emerge to take viewers on a gore-filled journey through the grim underbelly of the forgotten 1980s.

13 Ghosts
›NR1960 · Horror · 85m · Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner
The reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his sprawling mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. They will need to search the house to find the doctor's fortune, but along with the property itself, they have also inherited the occultist's collection of thirteen ghosts.

The Well
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Lauren LaVera, Claudia Gerini, Giovanni Lombardo Radice
A young restorer travels to a small village to restore a medieval painting to its former glory. She will put her life in danger due to a curse attached to the painting.

Superstition
›NR1982 · Horror · 85m · James Houghton, Albert Salmi, Lynn Carlin
A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants.

From a Whisper to a Scream
›R1987 · Horror · 100m · Vincent Price, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser
The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. In the second, a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit who holds the secret to eternal life. In the third, a glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the outside. And in the fourth, a group of Civil War soldiers are held captive by a household of orphans with strange intentions for them.

The Sacrifice Game
›NR2023 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Georgia Acken, Mena Massoud, Olivia Scott Welch
Christmas break, 1971. Samantha and Clara, two students who are staying behind for the holidays at their boarding school, must survive the night after the arrival of uninvited visitors.

The Alchemist Cookbook
›2016 · Drama, Horror, Comedy · 82m · Ty Hickson, Amari Cheatom, Fiji
Self-made chemist Sean, a recluse living in an old trailer in the woods, suffers from pill-popping delusions of fortune. When his manic attempts at cracking the ancient secret of alchemy go awry he unleashes something far more sinister and dangerous.

Tales That Witness Madness
›R1973 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 90m · Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Georgia Brown
Enigmatic asylum owner Dr Tremayne houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each patient went mad, be they a ritualistic 'luau', a time-travelling bicycle, a toy tiger, and a tree stump.

The Changeover
›PG-132017 · Fantasy, Thriller, Horror · 95m · Timothy Spall, Melanie Lynskey, Lucy Lawless
Laura Chant, 16, lives with her mother and four-year-old brother Jacko in a poor new suburb on the edge of a partially demolished Christchurch, New Zealand. Laura is drawn into a supernatural battle with an ancient spirit who attacks Jacko and slowly drains the life out of him as the spirit becomes ever younger. Laura discovers her true identity and the supernatural ability within her, and must harness it to save her brother's life.

The Night Sitter
›2018 · Comedy, Horror · 88m · Elyse Dufour, Jack Champion, Jermaine Rivers
A scheming con artist poses as the innocent babysitter "Amber" to steal from a wealthy occult enthusiast with a reclusive son, Kevin. Her crew arrives to clean out the house just as Kevin stumbles upon a prized artifact and unwittingly summons a trio of witches known as The Three Mothers.

The Horror at 37,000 Feet
›1973 · TV Movie, Horror, Drama · 74m · Chuck Connors, Buddy Ebsen, Tammy Grimes
A commercial-jet captain (Chuck Connors) has ghosts on board from stones of an English abbey being shipped overseas.

Winterbeast
›1992 · Horror, Comedy · 76m · Tim R. Morgan, Mike Magri, Charles Majka
People are being killed off near a popular New England mountain lodge, with a legend claiming that the mountain is haunted by a deadly Native American demonic curse.

Transylvania Twist
›PG1989 · Fantasy, Comedy, Horror · 90m · Robert Vaughn, Teri Copley, Steve Altman
The nephew of a librarian must go collect a 200 year old book, "The Book of Ulthar." that should have never been checked out by the Evil Count Orlock cause one of the spells in it could bring about the end of the world. During his trip to the castle, he meets Marissa, a gorgeous rock star and heir to the castle's fortune. There they must confront the only other heir to the fortune and the book, Uncle Byron; and Uncle Byron and his 3 adopted nieces all have very, very, very broad smile.

The Possession
›PG-132012 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Natasha Calis
A young girl buys an antique box at a yard sale, unaware that inside the collectible lives a malicious ancient spirit. The girl's father teams with his ex-wife to find a way to end the curse upon their child.

Gretel & Hansel
›PG-132020 · Fantasy, Horror, Mystery · 87m · Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, Alice Krige
A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.

Apartment 7A
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 104m · Julia Garner, Dianne Wiest, Jim Sturgess
A struggling young dancer finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected older couple promise her a shot at fame.

The Old Ways
›R2021 · Horror, Fantasy · 90m · Brigitte Kali Canales, Andrea Cortés, Julian Lerma
Cristina, a journalist of Mexican origin, travels to her ancestral home in Veracruz to investigate a story of sorcery and healing. There, she is kidnapped by a group of locals who claim she's the devil incarnated.

WolfCop
›NR2014 · Horror, Comedy · 79m · Leo Fafard, Amy Matysio, Sarah Lind
It's not unusual for alcoholic cop Lou to black out and wake up in unfamiliar surroundings, but lately things have taken a turn for the strange...and hairy. WolfCop is the story of one cop's quest to become a better man. One transformation at a time.

Malum
›R2023 · Horror · 92m · Jessica Sula, Candice Coke, Chaney Morrow
A rookie police officer willingly takes the last shift at a newly decommissioned police station in an attempt to uncover the mysterious connection between her father's death and a vicious cult.

Satanic Panic
›2019 · Horror, Comedy · 89m · Hayley Griffith, Rebecca Romijn, Arden Myrin
A pizza delivery girl is suddenly in for the fight of her young life when encountering a group of Satanists in need of a virgin to ritually sacrifice.

Countess Dracula
›PG1971 · Drama, Horror · 93m · Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green, Sandor Elès
Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory lineage, fortunately discovers a way to become young again; but the price to be paid by those around her will be high and bloody.

The Devil's Rock
›2011 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 83m · Craig Hall, Matthew Sunderland, Gina Varela
Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day, two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from Normandy, discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the war.

Bad Hair
›NR2021 · Horror, Comedy · 102m · Elle Lorraine, Jay Pharoah, Lena Waithe
In 1989, an ambitious young woman gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career may come at a great cost when she realizes that her new hair may have a mind of its own.
