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The Atticus Institute
The Atticus Institute is a 2015 American faux-documentary horror film, the directorial debut of Chris Sparling, starring William Mapother and Rya Kihlstedt in a story of a 1976 Pennsylvania lab where the military tries to weaponize a possessed woman.
The Believers
The Believers (1987) is a John Schlesinger horror thriller starring Martin Sheen, from Mark Frost's adaptation of Nicholas Conde's novel The Religion, about a psychologist drawn into Santería-linked ritual child murders in New York.
The Boxer's Omen
The Boxer's Omen (魔, aka Mo, Black Magic 4) is a 1983 Shaw Brothers Hong Kong horror film by Kuei Chih-hung, sequel to Bewitched, in which kickboxing revenge in Thailand becomes a psychedelic Buddhist-versus-black-magic battle.
The Conjuring: Last Rites
The Conjuring: Last Rites, also known as The Conjuring 4, is a 2025 American supernatural horror film directed by Michael Chaves, the fourth Conjuring film and the Warrens' finale.
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (死霊館 悪魔のせいなら、無罪。) is a 2021 horror film, seventh in the Conjuring Universe, directed by Michael Chaves, based on the 1981 Arne Cheyenne Johnson demonic-possession murder trial, released in theaters and on HBO Max June 4, 2021.
The Devil Inside (film)
The Devil Inside (2012) is a found-footage exorcism horror film by William Brent Bell and Matthew Peterman, released by Paramount on January 6, 2012. It earned $33.7 million opening and $101.8 million worldwide on a $1 million budget, with an F CinemaScore and 6% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Devil on Trial
The Devil on Trial (2023 Netflix documentary, Chris Holt) about Arne Cheyenne Johnson's 1981 "Devil Made Me Do It" murder trial, the only US case using demonic possession as a defense.
The Devil Rides Out
The Devil Rides Out (US: The Devil's Bride) is a 1968 Hammer horror film directed by Terence Fisher, written by Richard Matheson from Dennis Wheatley's 1934 novel, starring Christopher Lee as the Duc de Richleau against satanist Mocata (Charles Gray).
The Devil's Advocate (1997 film)
The Devil's Advocate is a 1997 American supernatural thriller directed by Taylor Hackford, in which a young lawyer joins a New York firm secretly headed by Satan.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) is a Scott Derrickson horror-courtroom hybrid starring Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, and Jennifer Carpenter, loosely based on the Anneliese Michel exorcism death and 1978 negligent homicide trial in Germany.
The Exorcist
The Exorcist (1973) is William Friedkin's horror film adapted by William Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel about Regan MacNeil's demonic possession; it earned $441 million, ten Oscar nominations, and spawned a franchise.
The House of the Devil
The House of the Devil (2009) is Ti West's satanic horror film about a babysitter, Jocelin Donahue's Samantha, trapped by a cult during a lunar eclipse; shot on 16mm as a 1980s period piece, it earned $102,812 worldwide and strong reviews.
The Imp
The Imp (凶榜, Hung bong) is a 1981 Hong Kong New Wave horror film directed by Dennis Yu, starring Charlie Chin and Kent Cheng, about a security guard whose pregnant wife is targeted by a reincarnating imp; a box-office 14th-place hit that shaped later HK ghost films.
The Last Exorcism
The Last Exorcism (2010) is a found-footage horror film directed by Daniel Stamm, produced by Eli Roth, starring Patrick Fabian and Ashley Bell; it opened number one with over $21 million and grossed $41.0M in the US.
The Pope's Exorcist
The Pope's Exorcist is a 2023 Screen Gems horror thriller directed by Julius Avery, starring Russell Crowe as Vatican exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, loosely based on Amorth's memoirs; it grossed $77 million worldwide and has a sequel in development.
The Possession
The Possession is a 2012 supernatural horror film directed by Ole Bornedal, in which a girl is possessed by a dybbuk, a spirit of Jewish folklore, from an antique box.
The Possession of Hannah Grace
The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018) is a Screen Gems supernatural horror film directed by Diederik Van Rooijen, starring Shay Mitchell as a morgue worker who suspects a delivered cadaver is possessed; grossed $14.8M, 23% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Reaping
The Reaping is a 2007 American horror thriller directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Hilary Swank as a former missionary investigating apparent biblical plagues in a Louisiana town.
The Remaining
The Remaining is a 2014 American supernatural horror film directed by Casey La Scala, starring Alexa PenaVega, about friends facing the Rapture at a wedding; also a 2026 Finnish short by Kimi Issakainen.
The Rite (2011 film)
The Rite is a 2011 American supernatural horror film directed by Mikael Håfström, in which a skeptical seminarian at the Vatican is apprenticed to a veteran exorcist played by Anthony Hopkins.
The Ritual (2025 film)
The Ritual (2025) is a horror film directed by David Midell, starring Al Pacino and Dan Stevens as priests performing the 1928 Emma Schmidt exorcism in Earling, Iowa; released June 6, 2025, grossing $525.9K.
The Seventh Sign
The Seventh Sign (第七の予言) is a 1988 TriStar apocalyptic horror film directed by Carl Schultz, starring Demi Moore, Michael Biehn, Jürgen Prochnow, and Peter Friedman; originally titled The Boarder, it grossed $16.5M.
The Seventh Victim
The Seventh Victim (1943) is a Val Lewton-produced RKO horror-noir, Mark Robson's directorial debut and Kim Hunter's screen debut, about a woman finding her sister in a Greenwich Village Satanic cult, ending in suicide.
The Unborn (2009 film)
The Unborn (2009) is an American supernatural horror film written and directed by David S. Goyer, starring Odette Annable and Gary Oldman, about a teenager haunted by a dybbuk tied to a family curse from Nazi-era experiments; it grossed $42.6 million and scored 11% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Vatican Tapes
The Vatican Tapes is a 2015 demon-possession horror film directed by Mark Neveldine, starring Olivia Taylor Dudley, Michael Peña, and Dougray Scott, in which a possessed young woman turns out to carry the antichrist; it grossed $1.8 million and scored 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Traumatika
Traumatika is a 2024 English-language horror film by French filmmaker Pierre Tsigaridis and Maxime Rancon, blending possession, slasher, found-footage, and true-crime elements around a child-preying demon; it premiered at FrightFest 2024 and was released in US theaters by Saban Films on September 12, 2025.