Evil Dead is an American comedy horror franchise created by Sam Raimi consisting of five feature films and a television series. The series originally revolves around the grimoire the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, an ancient Sumerian text that wreaks havoc upon a group of cabin inhabitants in a wooded area in Tennessee.
The film franchise was resurrected in 2013 with Evil Dead, both a reboot and a loose continuation of the series directed by Fede Álvarez, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rodo Sayagues.
A fifth film in the franchise, titled Evil Dead Rise, was theatrically released on April 21, 2023, with Lee Cronin serving as writer and director, Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan starring as sisters Ellie and Beth Bixler.
A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable. This one has liters and liters of blood.
A weekend vacation turns sinister when a group of friends must confront their worst fears one by one.
This is a film that mixes horror, paranormal and folk horror, as the characters face their worst fears, whether monstrous creatures, spirits, etc. Some scenes have blood, strong deaths, and also scenes of spiritual possession.
When Margaret (Wainwright) and Ben (Gilford) take a weekend trip with longtime friends Ellie (Crew) and Thomas (Santos) and their two young children (Guiza and Mattle), Ben begins to suspect something supernatural is occurring when the kids behave strangely after disappearing into the woods overnight.
Starring: Alisha Wainwright, Zach Gilford, Amanda Crew, Carlos Santos, Briella Guiza, David Mattle.
This is another film in which a possessed young woman gives birth to a baby who is the devil incarnate, but the FX are good.
A young American woman is sent to Rome to serve the church, but she encounters darkness that makes her question her faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that aims to bring about the birth of evil in its purest form.
Blumhouse, the genre-defining mastermind behind FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S and M3GAN, has created this original horror that taps into the innocence of imaginary friends. It begs the question: Are they really figments of childhood imagination or is something more terrifying lurking beneath?
When Jessica (DeWanda Wise) returns to her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter Alice (Pyper Braun) develops an eerie attachment to a stuffed bear named Chauncey she finds in the basement. Alice plays games with Chauncey that start out playful and become more sinister.
As Alice's behavior becomes more and more concerning, Jessica intervenes only to realize that Chauncey is much more than the stuffed toy bear she believed him to be. I don't intend to tell the whole story (no spoilers), but in the end it feels like the Poltergeist movies, where they go to another spiritual dimension. There are some twists at the end.
Destroy All Neighbors is a comedy-horror film with great FX, a fun premise, and nice deaths.
An exuberant Gumtree-sploitation horror-comedy that plays like Pacific Heights on peyote will make you sympathize with struggling prog-rock musician William. The neighbour from hell comes in the form of Vlad, an indestructible goblin-y character, played beneath layers of latex by Alex Winter, who drags William to hell. A blast, not least for the cameo from Kumail Nanjiani as 'Smelting Refinery Guard'.
Late Night with the Devil is a creepy 2023 found footage horror film written, directed and edited by Cameron and Colin Cairnes. The film features David Dastmalchian as the host of a 1970s talk show, who on Halloween night extends an invitation to a girl who is believed to be possessed in order to enhance the show ratings.
This movie is nothing like I have seen before. The frontman is terrific and a sight for sore eyes.
A baseball player, Ray (Wyatt Russell) forced into early retirement moves into a new family home with a water therapy-friendly pool. All is going well until, unavoidably, the pool turns out to be covered in spectral creatures. Bryce McGuire makes a short horror movie that taps into our primal fear of and attraction to water. He gets great performances from Russell and The Banshees of Kerry Condon as the partner who prays it is not her turn to check the chlorine levels.
The Pope's Exorcist is an American supernatural horror movie from 2023. It was written by Michael Petroni and Evan Spiliotopoulos, and it was based on Father Gabriele Amorth's books An Exorcist Tells His Story (1990) and An Exorcist: More Stories (1992). Russell Crowe plays Amorth in the movie. Daniel Zovatto, Alex Essoe, and Franco Nero also have parts in the movie. When Screen Gems bought the rights to Amorth's true story in 2020, filming began that year.
After the director was changed and the story was changed, the movie was shot in Ireland from August to October 2022.
There have been a lot of movies about exorcisms. What makes this one different? It's based on a book by Gabriele Amorth, who was a real-life exorcist. Amorth, along with five other priests, founded the International Association of Exorcists.
He was known all over the world for his work in demonology and exorcism. Father Amorth did thousands of exorcisms over the course of his career. He became one of the most well-known and controversial people in the Catholic Church in the modern age. The film has very good special effects. Another interesting detail is that in this film, the demon (Asmodeus) managed to carry out multiple possessions, he managed to possess the boy (Henry), the girl (Amy) and even the pope. Interesting detail, the Pope is always considered a holy figure, His Holiness, so if it has been possessed it is because it is not pure or free of sins.
The only detail, which is common to all exorcism films, is that the demons are easily defeated at the end, by the priest, with Christian prayers in Latin. In reality this would not be possible. Another detail that I didn't like was the film almost trying to clean up the church's image about the dark phase of the Inquisition, attributing the blame to the devil who possessed a bishop. So, in that sense, they try to give an image of excusing the church for the era of the Inquisition. But, in short, the film is entertaining.
It's curious, in this type of film the devil always tries to "enter" the church and contaminate it.
But in real life the Church is not a pure institution, it already has the devil inside, it has connections with mafia money and thousands of cases of pedophilia.
Movie directed by Oliver Park and Les Weldon, released in January 2023. It surprised me positively, the story evolves and has surprises. The Offering involves a Hassidic community. A man (Yosille) since he lost his wife, decided to study occultism, goetia, the esoteric kabbalah and invoke an archangel in an attempt to recover his wife. But the ritual went wrong and his own daughter died (Sarah).
The man then tries to be possessed by the female demon Abyzou and imprison her in his body, by sticking a consecrated dagger in his chest, and using an amulet. He made it and died this way. Meanwhile, the body goes to a mortuary. Arthur (Nick Blood) and his pregnant wife, go to Arthur's father's house, owner of that funeral home, and he helps to autopsy the body, it is then that the demon Abyzou will escape. All through the movie there are scenes of suspense and the spirit of the girl (Sarah) is seen, and at other times the demon Abyzou. The ending is unexpected and surprising, I can tell that it is not a happy ending.
Abyzou in folklore, is a female demon that abducts children and causes deaths during pregnancy. The name came from Akkadian Apsu or Sumerian Abzu.
If you like dark psychological thrillers and UFO movies, you'll love "Extraterrestrial". Directed by Colin Minihan. April visits her parents' vacation cabin in the woods, with Kyle and her friends. During their stay, they come across a crashed alien spaceship and decide to investigate. Later, they find themselves terrorised and chased by aliens.
The film has impressive scenes, obviously it has a lot of sci-fi, for example when April calls the attention of the UFO to be abducted and go to save her boyfriend (Kyle).
The scene inside the UFO is totally SCI FI, the craft looks dark, gloomy, dirty inside.
However, the film has scenes that, frighteningly, are among the most reliable and realistic of the way in which the Government and the military deal with abductees, instead of helping them, they usually always eliminate witnesses.
This is another great dark psychological horror film about alien abductions, written and directed by Scott Stewart.
It has good actors and a compelling story. It shows quite interesting details, such as how the aliens can manipulate the mind of people (with hallucinations or telepathically) and micro-manipulation of time.
They live a peaceful life in the suburbs with their sons, Jesse (Dakota Goyo) and Sam (Kadan Rockett) However, that peace soon shatters with a series of disturbing events that escalate. It becomes clear that their family is being targeted by an unimaginably terrifying, deadly alien threat. Daniel and Lacy draw upon their courage and determination to protect their family and identify what is after them.
Another found-footage horror movie with extraterrestrials, another one based on the events of Phoenix lights. Directed by Keith Arem.
The fact-based sci-fi thriller blurs the line between fiction and reality and revolves around a military conspiracy and the controversial missing persons case surrounding the infamous Phoenix Lights In the beginning they use real UFO videos taken from YouTube. This movie has realistic and nice fight scene between jet fighters are UFOS, but in reality the triangular Ufos are similar to the TR3b made by the military.
The movie is a larger version with higher budget of the movie "The McPherson Tape", but same story, same director. Another great found-footage horror movie with aliens, this one very realistic. Directed by Dean Alioto. Grey aliens, abductions, haunting their house at night, etc.
A son goes out to investigate a mysterious blackout and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow him and his brothers back to their home, everything breaks loose.
As a kid, I watched this on television in my country (Portugal) and the television channel broadcasted it after the news, as if it were a real case.The effects are good, for example when we see two grey aliens mutilating a cow and their big space ship nearby.
When we see the aliens walk through the wall of the house as if they were dematerializing, their nose dripping blood (some kind of psychotronic influence on the part of UFOs), that stuff I guess they made a research about real UFO abductees and some details.
Another great, found-footage movie about the Phoenix Incident, with an interesting story that doesn't let you down at the end. Based on the 1997 mass UFO sightings in Phoenix, Arizona and Sorona, Mexico. On Thursday, March 13th 1997 thousands of people reported seeing strange lights in the sky.
Between the documentary style of Sophie's investigation and the footage of Josh and his two friends (Ashley and Mark) investigating the sighting. The three teenagers disappear.
Aliens abducted them?
Phoenix Forgotten is a watch that captures the imagination with its mix of styles and nice effects.
This is a found-footage horror movie, an ufological horror movie. I love that.
Directed by Turner Clay; The Phoenix Tapes ’97 really goes all out to make this film seem like a real thing. The Phoenix Tapes '97 is not the only film to rely on this famous UFO event. It's not the only story to rely on the Phoenix Lights incident. In 2015 we had "Phoenix Incident" and in 2017, we had "Phoenix Forgotten".
The movie begins with an interview with a man about the death of his son. This man is convinced that his son was murdered by the government, as he was trying to smuggle a set of video tapes away. During the Phoenix Lights incident, four men disappeared, and these tapes show their final days.
Kit (AnnaSophia Robb), a difficult young girl, is sent to the mysterious Blackwood Boarding School when her heated temper becomes too much for her mother to handle. Once she arrives at Blackwood, Kit encounters eccentric headmistress Madame Duret (Uma Thurman) and meets the school’s only other students, four young women also headed down a troubled path. While exploring the labyrinthine corridors of the school, Kit and her classmates discover that Blackwood Manor hides an age-old secret rooted in the paranormal.
Based on the classic gothic YA novel of the same name by Lois Duncan – author of “I Know What You Did Last Summer” – and produced by Stephenie Meyer (author of Twilight, The Host), "DOWN A DARK HALL" is a supernatural thriller directed by Rodrigo Cortés (Buried), from a screenplay by Mike Goldbach and Chris Sparling, and stars AnnaSophia Robb (Soul Surfer, The Carrie Diaries), Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Victoria Moroles (Teen Wolf), Noah Silver (The Tribes of Palos Verdes), Taylor Russell (TV’s Falling Skies), Rosie Day (Outlander), and features a truly memorable turn by the iconic Uma Thurman.
"The Craft is a cult classic movie that contains paranormal, terror, and magick.
Because of this movie, thousands of teenagers started to be interested in witchcraft.
The Craft is a 1996 American teen supernatural horror film directed by Andrew Fleming, based on a screenplay by Peter Filardi and Fleming. The story is by Filardi. The film stars Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True. The story follows four teenage girls from a Los Angeles parochial high school who pursue witchcraft for their own gain and then experience negative repercussions.
There are scenes of the Gothic witch Nancy that are impressive, like when she walks on water and hundreds of killer whales (orcas) appear dead on the beach. Neve Campbell was also an actress in the movies 'Scream.'.
By the year 2020, they had made a second movie to celebrate twenty years. It was named "The Craft: Legacy," but with different actors.
The Craft: Legacy is a soft sequel to the 1996 movie, but it was made by a different director.
Trailer of The Craft:
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Another cult classic "Blade" was famous for its fighting scenses with Wesley Snipes. The special effects were also good.. The music track from the Vampire Nighclub was also famous, which is a Pump Panel remix of 'Confusion' (band: New Order)
Blade is a film and television series that is based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Wesley Snipes plays Blade in the original trilogy and Sticky Fingaz in the television series.
"Blade Trinity stars Wesley Snipes, Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Biel, Parker Posey, among other stars.
There are many movies about possessions and exorcisms, and with "Possession" titles.
But this "The Possession" from 2012 directed by Ole Bornedal is quite good.
It stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Clyde), Kyra Sedgwick (Stephanie), Natasha Calis (Emily), Grant Show, Madison Davenport (Hannah), and Matisyahu.
Clyde (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), is divorced. Clyde and his two daughters (Emily and Hannah) spent the weekend getting to know the new house he bought. On the way back, there was a garage fair, a man was selling old things, and there was a cursed wooden box.
Emily asks father Clyde to buy an antique box, unaware that inside the box lives a malicious ancient spirit. At night, in her room, Emily managed to open the box, take out some old objects, and put a ring on her finger. Day after day, she began to behave differently and become more aggressive. She attacked a classmate fiercely when she tried to take the box away from her.
The movie has some good scenes of possession and poltergeist activity.
Clyde travels to a Hasidic community where he meets Tzadok, a Jewish man willing to help him defeat the Dybbuk spirit and save Emily from becoming completely possessed by the demon.
Good actors, good acting, good special effects, and a great story.
