
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

Beyond Evil
›R1980 · Horror · 94m · John Saxon, Lynda Day George, Michael Dante
Middle-aged newlyweds Larry & Barbara spend their honeymoon at a palatial Filipino mansion, unaware that it is inhabited by the vengeful spirit of a notorious voodoo witch queen who was murdered a century ago. The woman's evil spirit promptly begins precipitating a variety of violent deaths in accordance with a diabolical ritual intended to bring her back to life -a process which is ultimately consummated by taking possession of Barbara's body.

Saint Sinner
›2002 · Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Greg Serano, Gina Ravera, Mary Mara
In 1815 a monk, Tomas Alcala, unwittingly unleashes two female succubi, Munkar and Nakir, upon an unsuspecting 21st century. He is chosen by God to travel through the centuries and stop the demons' rampage.

Netherworld
›R1992 · Horror · 87m · Michael Bendetti, Denise Gentile, Anjanette Comer
A young man arrives at his father's mansion in Louisiana to discover that a secretive cult is using winged creatures to raise the dead to do their bidding.

Stay Out Stay Alive
›2019 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 83m · Barbara Crampton, Sage Mears, Brie Mattson
After an earthquake uncovers an abandoned goldmine, a hiker falls in and is trapped, forcing friends to grapple with a moral dilemma that spirals into madness.

The Brotherhood 2: Young Warlocks
›2001 · Horror · 81m · Sean Faris, Forrest Cochran, Stacey Scowley
John, a new student at an exclusive private school, is having trouble with a group of bullying jocks who are jealous of his friendship with beautiful classmate Mary. He's intrigued, then, when enigmatic misfit Luc offers him a chance to get back at them using witchcraft - but doesn't realise that the price of his new-found power may be his life.

Coven
›2020 · Horror · 80m · Lizze Gordon, Jennifer Cipolla, Margot Major
Five undergrad witches come together in order to perform a ritual to invoke the ancient powers of the witch Ashura.

Truth or Dare
›PG-132018 · Thriller, Horror · 101m · Nolan Gerard Funk, Lucy Hale, Violett Beane
A harmless game of "Truth or Dare" among friends turns deadly when someone—or something—begins to punish those who tell a lie—or refuse the dare.

The Craft: Legacy
›PG-132020 · Horror, Drama, Fantasy · 94m · Cailee Spaeny, Zoey Luna, Gideon Adlon
An eclectic foursome of aspiring teenage witches get more than they bargained for as they lean into their newfound powers.

Darkness
›PG-132002 · Horror · 88m · Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen
A teenage girl moves into a remote country home with her family, only to discover that the gloomy old house has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy them.

HIM
›R2025 · Horror, Mystery · 96m · Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox
After suffering a potentially career-ending brain trauma, Cameron Cade receives a lifeline when his hero, legendary eight-time Championship quarterback and cultural megastar Isaiah White, offers to train Cam at Isaiah's isolated compound that he shares with his celebrity influencer wife. But as Cam's training accelerates, Isaiah's charisma begins to curdle into something darker.

The Reckoning
›2021 · Horror, Drama · 111m · Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee, Steven Waddington
In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.

Blood Feast
›1963 · Horror · 67m · William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont, and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.

The Final Wish
›R2019 · Horror · 95m · Lin Shaye, Michael Welch, Melissa Bolona
Following the passing of his father, Aaron Hammond returns to his hometown to help his devastated mother and to confront his past demons. Sifting through his father’s belongings, Aaron comes upon a mysterious item that is far more than it seems.

The Devil and Father Amorth
›2018 · Documentary, Horror · 68m · William Friedkin, Gabriele Amorth
William Friedkin attends an exorcism with Father Gabriele Amorth, as he treats an Italian woman named Cristina for the ninth time. Prior to filming, Cristina had purportedly been experiencing behavioural changes and “fits” that could not be explained by psychiatry, and which became worse during Christian holidays.

The Devil’s Rain
›1975 · Horror · 85m · Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino
A Satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and enslave every descendant of his congregation, by the power of the book of blood contracts, in which they sold their souls to the devil.

We Need to Do Something
›NR2021 · Horror, Mystery · 97m · Sierra McCormick, Vinessa Shaw, Pat Healy
Seeking shelter from a storm, a family finds themselves trapped in a bathroom for days with no sign of rescue and untold evils lurking just beyond the walls.

Queen of Spades
›NR2021 · Horror · 91m · Ava Preston, Kaelen Ohm, Jamie Bloch
According to legend, an ominous entity known as the Queen of Spades can be summoned by performing an ancient ritual. Four teenagers summon the Queen of Spades, but they could never imagine the horrors that await them.

Children of the Corn: Runaway
›R2018 · Horror · 82m · Marci Miller, Jake Ryan Scott, Lynn Andrews III
The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. She lands in the small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.

The Red Book Ritual
›2022 · Horror · 83m · Valeria San Martin, Agustin Olcese, Marlene Pedersen Chauviere
Three friends decide to play The Red Book game. What they don't know is that in the house evil is waiting to be released. A long time ago a witch died as part of a satanic ritual. Every question they ask, they get closer and closer to her. The book will reveal the answers to all your questions… but what if your host is an evil entity with a thirst for blood?

Rumpelstiltskin
›R1995 · Horror · 87m · Kim Johnston Ulrich, Tommy Blaze, Allyce Beasley
In the 1400s, Rumpelstiltskin is imprisoned inside a small jade figurine. In modern-day Los Angeles, the recently widowed wife of a police officer, with baby in tow, finds her way into a witch's shop and purchases a certain figurine, resulting in the cackling beast being freed and demanding possession of the baby.

Operation Blood Hunt
›2024 · Action, Adventure, Horror · 94m · Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Louis Mandylor
Prolific expert of the occult and whiskey, Reverend Conte, accompanies a ragtag group of military rejects to a remote South Pacific Island to investigate the disappearance of Marines units stationed there in 1944, said to be at the hands of the Japanese Imperial Army. Upon speaking with the island’s inhabitants, they soon discover the Marines had actually been massacred by a group of Lycanthropes, known to most as WEREWOLVES.

The Devil's Men
›PG1976 · Horror · 90m · Donald Pleasence, Peter Cushing, Luan Peters
A satanic cult led by Baron Corofax kidnaps three young people and Father Roche & Milo must save them from the hands of this evil.

Sorceress
›1995 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Larry Poindexter, Linda Blair, Edward Albert
Two friends, who both work for the same high-priced, high-powered law firm, are both married to modern day witches. Erica, the wife of Larry, believes that he is being led astray by Carol, an old flame, who also works for the same law firm. Erica decides to act and one night after a torrid sex session Larry drifts off to sleep and begins to dream. Soon the dream turns into a nightmare of sex, violence, murder and death involving himself, his friends and colleagues from the law firm which appears to be frighteningly realistic...

The House of Seven Corpses
›1974 · Horror · 90m · John Ireland, Faith Domergue, John Carradine
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole film crew off one by one.
