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 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.
Terror
›R1979 · Horror · 84m · John Nolan, Carolyn Courage, James Aubrey
The descendants of a witch-hunting family and their close friends are stalked and killed by a mysterious entity.
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!
Apprentice to Murder
›PG-131988 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 97m · Donald Sutherland, Chad Lowe, Mia Sara
Pennsylvania, 1928. Billy Kelly, a sixteen-year old boy, meets a mysterious traveler claiming he's the messenger of God. Falling under under the spell of this "doctor" Reese, he will soon discover Reese has murderous plans for his future. Based on a true story.
Toad Road
›NR2013 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 76m · James Davidson, Sara Anne Jones, Jim Driscoll
Stuck in a dead end town, young James kills time with his druggie friends, engaging in debauched chemical intake to the point of unconsciousness, until he meets Sara, a sweet new arrival to their group. However, Sara wants James to take her further into the world of narcotics experimentation (just as James was contemplating abandoning this lifestyle), and she also wants him to introduce her to the sinister local legend of Toad Road, a spot deep in the forest that is apparently home to the Seven Gates of Hell.
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?
Auntie Lee's Meat Pies
›R1992 · Comedy, Horror · 100m · Karen Black, Pat Morita, Kristine Rose
A devil-worshiping woman sends out her four beautiful nieces to lure men back to her place so they can be killed, ground up and sold as meat pies.
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.
The Black Cat
›1989 · Horror, Drama, Fantasy · 89m · Florence Guérin, Urbano Barberini, Caroline Munro
When a horror film based on the same source material as Suspiria and Inferno goes into production, the evil witch the story is based upon manifests herself and not only begins to terrorise the actress set to portray her on screen, but reveals plans to wreck havoc and bloodshed throughout the world.
Mark of the Witch
›NR1970 · Horror · 84m · Robert Elston, Barbara Brownell, Gary Brockette
A 300-year-old witch terrorizes a college town to get revenge on the descendant of the man who persecuted her.
Mandrake
›NR2022 · Horror · 85m · Deirdre Mullins, Derbhle Crotty, Paul Kennedy
A probation officer, Cathy Madden, is tasked with rehabilitating a notorious killer named 'Bloody' Mary Laidlaw back into society following a two-decade sentence.
Something Weird
›NR1967 · Horror · 80m · Tony McCabe, Elizabeth Wilkinson, William Brooker
An accident victim makes a deal with a witch, in which he receives extraordinary ESP powers; he uses these powers to assist the police in solve crimes.
Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh
›R1991 · Comedy, Horror · 89m · Jake Dengel, Joe Sharkey, Susann Fletcher
A police detective teams up with his buddy's daughter to investigate cult-ritual mutilations.
Wicked CitySeries
›2022 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 3 seasons
A group of urban witches push their powers to new heights and uncover dark secrets that attract dangerous enemies their way.
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.
Wishmaster
›R1997 · Horror, Fantasy · 90m · Angus Scrimm, Andrew Divoff, Tammy Lauren
The Djinn, having been released from his ancient prison, seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
Whistle
›R2026 · Horror, Mystery · 100m · Dafne Keen, Sophie Nélisse, Sky Yang
A misfit group of unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle. They discover that blowing the whistle and the terrifying sound it emits will summon their future deaths to hunt them down.
Spell
›R2020 · Thriller, Horror, Fantasy · 91m · Omari Hardwick, Loretta Devine, John Beasley
A father survives a plane crash in rural Appalachia, but becomes suspicious of the elderly couple who take him in to nurse him back to health with the ancient remedies.
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.
Puppetmaster
›R1989 · Horror · 88m · Paul Le Mat, William Hickey, Irene Miracle
After being contacted by their mysterious former colleague, four psychics arrive at a secluded hotel where they are stalked by a group of murderous puppets.
We Summon the Darkness
›R2020 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Alexandra Daddario, Keean Johnson, Logan Miller
Three best friends attending a heavy-metal show cross paths with sadistic killers after they travel to a secluded country home for an after party.
Lord of Misrule
›NR2023 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 104m · Tuppence Middleton, Jane Wood, Evie Templeton
When the daughter of the town's new priest goes missing during the harvest festival, a desperate search begins, uncovering the town's dark history and resurfacing tales of a mysterious, malevolent spirit that demands sacrifice.
Puppet Master 4
›R1993 · Horror · 79m · Gordon Currie, Chandra West, Ash Adams
Blade, Tunneler, and Pinhead go toe-to-toe with a team of terrifying, gremlin-like creatures known as "Totems" that are sent by the Egyptian demon Sutekh to recapture the magic stolen by Toulon.
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
›R1988 · Comedy, Horror · 75m · Gunnar Hansen, Linnea Quigley, John Henry Richardson
Los Angeles private eye Jack Chandler is hired by a worried mother to find her missing runaway daughter, Samantha. As Chandler searches for her whereabouts, he uncovers an evil cult that worships an Egyptian god, whose followers commit human sacrifices with chainsaws to appease their deity. He soon learns that Samantha has revenge in store for the cult leader and his bevy of blood-thirsty, chainsaw-wielding hookers.