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Curated Religious Horror Movies

Religious horror draws its fear from belief: scripture, sin, sacred rites and the question of who, or what, is listening to prayers. Faith is a powerful thing. So is the corruption of it. Curated religious horror sits inside that tension, films that take belief seriously enough to show what happens when it goes wrong. Exorcisms, cults, divine punishment. The sacred and the terrifying have always shared a border.

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Poster artwork for The Exorcism of Emily Rose

A priest is charged with negligent homicide after a young woman dies following an exorcism. The priest's lawyer, an agnostic, has to decide what she actually believes happened.

2000sReligious HorrorDemons
Poster artwork for The Exorcist

The Exorcist

1973 · Movie
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Chris MacNeil's twelve-year-old daughter has been changing in ways no doctor can explain and when medicine runs out of answers, two priests are brought in. What they find tests everything they believe about what's possible.

1970sDemonsReligious Horror
Poster artwork for The Exorcist III

The Exorcist III

1990 · Movie

Lieutenant Kinderman investigates a series of ritualistic murders that keep leading him somewhere he doesn't want to go.

1990sReligious HorrorDemons
Poster artwork for The Exorcist: Believer

Two Georgia schoolgirls vanish into the woods and walk back out three days later with no memory of where they went. A widowed father turns to Chris MacNeil, the one person who has seen this before.

2020sDemonsSupernatural
Poster artwork for The First Omen

The First Omen

2024 · Movie

Margaret, a young American novice, arrives in Rome in 1971 to work at a church orphanage before taking her vows. She's drawn to a troubled girl the nuns keep apart, and to a plot inside the Church that wants something born.

2020sDemonsReligious Horror
Poster artwork for The Last Exorcism

The Last Exorcism

2010 · Movie

Reverend Cotton Marcus agrees to let a documentary crew film an exorcism he believes will prove the practice is fraudulent. Nell Sweetzer becomes his subject.

2010sFound FootageFolk Horror
Poster artwork for The Last Exorcism Part II

Nell Sweetzer recovers from the events of the first film in a New Orleans halfway house. The same presence finds her there.

2010sFound FootageDemons
Poster artwork for The Nun

The Nun

2018 · Movie

Sister Irene and Father Burke investigate the suicide of a young nun at a remote Romanian monastery and encounter what the cloistered community has been containing.

2010sDemonsSupernatural
Poster artwork for The Nun II

The Nun II

2023 · Movie

An investigation into the Nun's activity in France brings Sister Irene back into contact with the entity first encountered in Romania.

2020sDemonsSupernatural
Poster artwork for The Omen (1976)

The Omen (1976)

1976 · Movie
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In a Rome hospital, a grieving American diplomat secretly accepts an orphaned newborn so his wife never learns their own baby died. Years later in London, death starts following the boy wherever he goes.

1970sReligious HorrorEvil Children
Poster artwork for The Omen

The Omen (2006)

2006 · Movie

An American diplomat quietly swaps his stillborn child for an orphan at birth. The signs surrounding the boy begin accumulating.

2000sReligious HorrorEvil Children
Poster artwork for The Wicker Man
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Sergeant Howie flies to a remote Scottish island to investigate a missing girl. The islanders are warm, cooperative, and completely evasive about the one thing he came to find.

1970sFolk HorrorWitchcraft
Poster artwork for Them

Them

2021 · TV

In 1953 Los Angeles, a Black family moves into an all-white neighborhood and finds that the terror in their new home comes from both inside and outside its walls.

2020sPsychologicalSupernatural
Poster artwork for Together

Together

2025 · Movie
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Tim and Millie have just moved to the countryside when something begins affecting them in ways that threaten their relationship and their survival.

2020sBody HorrorPsychological