
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

Night School
›R1981 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 88m · Leonard Mann, Rachel Ward, Drew Snyder
A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds, committed by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer.

Night of the Scarecrow
›R1995 · Horror · 85m · Elizabeth Barondes, John Mese, Stephen Root
A group of drunk teenagers accidently set free the spirit of a warlock, which possesses a scarecrow. The scarecrow goes on a bloody rampage killing the descendents of the men who had killed the warlock a century before. A newcomer and the daughter of the mayor try to stop it before it is too late and the warlock can reincarnate...

The Irrefutable Truth About Demons
›2000 · Horror · 90m · Karl Urban, Katie Wolfe, Sally Stockwell
In the place between what you know, and what you fear, demons rule. All hope is stripped away as demonic forces overcome you. Dr. Harry Ballard has just unearthed the essence of evil. He’s a marked man, a living sacrifice, thrown to the depths of the demon world. At his side is a beautiful young woman – an ex-cult member who’s experienced their immeasurable power.

The Devil Comes at Night
›2023 · Horror · 80m · Jason Martorino, Elias Zarou, Jeremiah Sparks
A washed up boxer searching for his inheritance must fight for his life when he is trapped in his deceased father's farmhouse by a local cannibal cult.

Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat
›R2002 · Horror, Comedy · 99m · John McConnell, Mark McLachlan, Melissa Morgan
A cannibal caterer kills various young women in preparation for a ritual feast for a long-dormant Egyptian goddess that has him under its control.

The Exorcism of Hannah Stevenson
›2022 · Fantasy, Horror · 75m · Hannah Rose, Tom Hogan, Edward Gist
Hannah and Matt, a young couple on their first holiday together, quickly discover that they may not see eye-to-eye. Feeling as though she let her boyfriend down, Hannah enlists the help of a mysterious gypsy woman, in the hope that the couple's troubles can be overcome. However, when Matt wakes to find his girlfriend has disappeared, the gypsy woman's sinister intentions become all too clear.

Residue
›2017 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 82m · Costas Mandylor, James Clayton, Taylor Hickson
A private investigator reads a book of sinister origins and unknowingly puts his daughter and himself in a fight for their lives...and their eternal souls.

Dark August
›PG1976 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · Kim Hunter, J.J. Barry, Carolyne Barry
A young girl is accidentally run down by a car driven by a careless city slicker. This careless injustice provokes the girl's grandfather into summoning his mystical powers and placing a death curse on the young man. Desperate to stave off the dire consequences of the hex, Barry seeks the counsel of a local psychic medium.

Husk
›R2011 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Devon Graye, Wes Chatham, C.J. Thomason
A group of friends stranded near a desolate cornfield find shelter in an old farmhouse, though they soon discover the dwelling is the center of a supernatural ritual.

Witchboard
›R1986 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 98m · Todd Allen, Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols
Playing around with a Ouija board, a trio of friends succeeds in contacting the spirit of a young boy. Trouble begins when the evil spirit, Malfeitor, takes over one of their bodies.

The Satanic Rites of Dracula
›R1973 · Horror · 88m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Coles
The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing to help them investigate Satanic ritual which has been occurring in a large country house, and which has been attended by a government minister, an eminent scientist and secret service chief. The owner of the house is a mysterious property tycoon who is found to be behind a sinister plot involving a deadly plague. It is in fact Dracula who, sick of his interminable existence, has decided that he must end it all in the only possible way- by destroying every last potential victim.

Rosemary's BabySeries
›TV-142014 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Zoe Saldaña, Patrick J. Adams, Carole Bouquet
Young Rosemary Woodhouse and her husband Guy move in with a rich couple, who soon take an unusual interest in the Woodhouses' attempts to have a second baby after Rosemary miscarried the first one. Guy soon has unusual success and Rosemary becomes pregnant, but it becomes clear that the two are connected and that the pregnancy may not be all that Rosemary hoped for...

To the Devil a Daughter
›R1976 · Horror · 95m · Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Nastassja Kinski
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.

Resurrected
›2023 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 90m · Dave Davis, Karli Hall, Erika Chase
In a dystopian future, the Vatican knows how to resurrect people. A priest discovers a conspiracy behind the resurrections and their possible link to a series of murders.

Evilspeak
›R1981 · Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · Clint Howard, R.G. Armstrong, Joe Cortese
Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.

Two Witches
›R2023 · Horror · 95m · Rebekah Kennedy, Belle Adams, Jacob DeMonte-Finn
A matriarchal witch passes on her sinister inheritance to her grand-daughter, triggering the most horrific curses.

The Heretics
›2017 · Horror, Fantasy · 87m · Nina Kiri, Ry Barrett, Jorja Cadence
A young girl is abducted by a man, who claims that a cult is hunting her. His goal is to protect her until sunrise but while restrained, the young girl falls deathly ill. While her friends and family search for her, the source of her illness becomes more and more apparent. She’s not sick…she’s changing.

Monster Portal
›2022 · Horror, Mystery, Fantasy · 80m · Sian Altman, Sarah Alexandra Marks, Louis James
A young woman inherits her estranged father's estate after his mysterious death. Once she and her friends arrive at the mansion, they discover that the home is on an old cemetery, which has the power of opening a portal to another realm, which contains the creatures foretold to the world by writer H.P. Lovecraft.

Curse of the Crimson Altar
›R1968 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff, Mark Eden
When his brother disappears, a man visits the remote country house where he was last seen. While the host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, there's a feeling of menace in the air with the overhanging legend of Lavinia Morley, the Black Witch of Greymarsh.

The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
›2020 · Horror, Drama · 93m · Catherine Walker, Jared Abrahamson, Hannah Emily Anderson
A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.

Cry of the Banshee
›R1970 · Horror · 91m · Vincent Price, Essy Persson, Hilary Dwyer
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.

Doctor Mordrid
›R1992 · Fantasy, Action, Horror · 74m · Jeffrey Combs, Yvette Nipar, Jay Acovone
Bound by hate and a mystical amulet that holds the powers of life and death, two immortal wizards meet for the last time in an ancient struggle of good versus evil.

The Nude Vampire
›1970 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Caroline Cartier, Olivier Rollin, Maurice Lemaître
A young man falls in love with a beautiful woman being chased by sinister masked figures at night. He tries to track her down, and learns she's being held captive by his father and colleagues who believe she's a vampire.

Baphomet
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 72m · Colin Ward, Rebecca Weaver, Matthan Harris
An American family celebrates their 28-year-old daughter's pregnancy. The celebration is interrupted when a Satanic cult leader, Henrik Brandr, unexpectedly visits their ranch. Henrik offers to pay the family a large sum for ownership of their land. Jacob Richardson, the father, rejects the offer due to the priceless sentimental value of the ranch. Henrik, displeased, begins to put devastating curses on the Richardsons, trying to force them off their land - even if it means murdering them. After suffering unexplainable tragedies, the Richardsons seek help from Marybeth, a white witch high priestess. They soon discover a terrible secret about their house, revealing why their land is so valuable to the cult. They realize they must protect their house from the cult at all costs, and a violent battle between good and evil ensues.
