FilmRDemonic & Possession Witchcraft & Occult Found Footage

The Vatican Tapes2015

Name: The Vatican Tapes
Genre: Demonic & Possession, Witchcraft & Occult, Found Footage, Supernatural
Released: 2015-07-23
Rating: 4.5

“For 2,000 years the Vatican has recorded evidence of evil. May God have mercy on their souls.”

Directed by Mark Neveldine

4.5

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 4.7Rotten Tomatoes 20%Metacritic 38TMDB 5.4

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Year

2015

Runtime

91 min

Box Office

Budget

$13,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$1,784,763

Domestic

$1,784,763

The premise

In a highly secured vault deep within the walls of Vatican City, the Catholic Church holds thousands of old films and video footage documenting exorcisms/supposed exorcisms and other unexplained religious phenomena they feel the world is not ready to see. This is the first tape - Case 83-G - stolen from these archives and exposed to the public by an anonymous source.

Horror Vault's take

Deep within Vatican City, the Church has spent decades locking away footage of exorcisms and inexplicable religious events — material deemed too dangerous for the public. When one such recording surfaces, it follows a young woman whose disturbing transformation sets off alarm bells at the highest levels of the Catholic hierarchy. Priests, government agents, and Vatican officials are drawn into a desperate struggle against a force that may be far older and more powerful than any of them anticipated. What unfolds on screen suggests the Church's secrecy was not paranoia — it was prudence.

Content: Demonic Possession Sequences, Religious Horror Imagery, Disturbing Behavior, Jump Scares