Occult
see all genres ›Fear of the unknown has always excited mankind's imagination. Creating ghosts and sundry other spirits from the id which the movies have always delighted in exploiting (along with an occasional dose of witchcraft).
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Ganja and Hess
Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and the horror genre, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film GANJA & HESS is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion and African American identity. Duane Jones stars as anthropologist Hess Green. When he is stabbed with an ancient ceremonial dagger...Start your free trial to watch -
Ghost Mother
An undercover agent was brutally murdered by a ruthless group of drug dealers. His sister, Nuntha is entrusted to care for his children, but she is also killed by her brother's murderers. When the drug dealers decide to hunt down the children, Nuntha returns from the dead to protect them and seek vengeance. GHOST MOTHER is...Start your free trial to watch -
Grey Knight
During the Civil War, a Union soldier is recruited to investigate a series of crucifixions by a renegade band of Confederate soldiers. He enlists the help of his old mentor and a mute runaway slave girl, the only witness to the renegade band's attacks. With the addition of some trigger happy Yankees, the brigade is complete....Start your free trial to watch
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The Hands of Orlac
Reuniting the star and director of THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE HANDS OF ORLAC is a deliciously twisted thriller that blends grand guignol thrills with the visual and performance styles of German Expressionism. Based on a novel by medical-horror novelist Maurice Renard, it charts the mental...Start your free trial to watch -
The Haunted Castle
THE HAUNTED CASTLE is a literal translation from the French title, LE CHATEAU HANTÉ. The fact that an 1896 Méliès film is also often known as THE HAUNTED CASTLE (though its French title, LE MANOIR DU DIABLE, could more properly be translated as THE DEVIL'S MANOR) has caused confusion to catalogers....Start your free trial to watch -
The Haunted Castle
I've yet to see anything to disprove the claims that this spooky affair is the first supernatural horror film of all time. Some also call it the first vampire film, most likely because of the presence of a large flying bat-creature early on. For Méliès devotees, it holds another more important position...Start your free trial to watch
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The Haunted Drum
Ping dreams of being a musician and had the chance to become a student of Master Duang, a famous master musician. Master Duang owned a mysterious drum called Peung Mang which was believed to be made from the skin of a beautiful woman named Thip. Ping falls in love with a beautiful girl who teaches him how...Start your free trial to watch -
The Headless Ghost
Three foreign exchange students, Americans Ronnie and Bill, and Danish Ingrid, go on a day-trip to the supposedly haunted Ambrose Castle. The students decide to spend the night in the castle to find out if it is really haunted, and meet the ghost of the Fourth Earl of Ambrose and various other spooks.Start your free trial to watch
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The Knight of the Snows
Georges Méliès avails himself of fabulous painted sets, lavish costumes, acrobatics and editing tricks to satisfyingly transpose the imaginative domain of the fairy tale into cinema. The plot turns on a spurned suitor who sells his soul to the devil to capture his beloved princess. Enter the shining knight...Start your free trial to watch -
Lemora
A notorious bank robber kills his wife and flees the police only to be captured by a mysterious group of figures in an abandoned town. His beautiful daughter, Lila Lee (played by the late Cheryl “Rainbeaux” Smith), receives a letter stating that Lila’s father is near death and that he needs to see her. Sneaking away at night...Start your free trial to watch -
Maniac Cop
Innocent people are brutally killed on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. A young cop, Jack Forrest (Bruce Campbell), finds himself marked as the chief suspect after his wife is murdered. As Lieutenant Frank McCrae (Tom Atkins) investigates these mysterious killings, the death toll rises and he suspects a...Start your free trial to watch
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Mark of the Devil
Count Christian von Meruh (Udo Kier) is a witch hunter apprentice to Lord Cumberland (Herbert Lom). He believes strongly in his mentor and in the ways of the church but loses faith when he catches Lom strangle a man to death. The witch trials are nothing but a scam of the church to seduce women and rob...Start your free trial to watch -
Marker
A teenage girl from the Pacific Northwest finds her life changed forever upon contracting a mysterious virus that has plagued the women in her community for decades. Sylvia is your typical teenage girl; she's currently juggling two boyfriends, and her father is a bit more overprotective than necessary. In recent years, a...Start your free trial to watch -
Nurse Sherri
An evil necromancer has just died, and his restless demon spirit possesses the body of sexy and voluptuous NURSE SHERRI. Transformed into a maniacal killing machine, Sherri stalks the hospital corridors turning them blood red with terror and madness. Yet she has no recollection of her gruesome murder sprees, not even when in...Start your free trial to watch
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Outer Space
"Tscherkassky has made two films cannibalizing Sidney J. Furie's 1982 Barbara Hershey horror film THE ENTITY, the story of a woman who is continually assaulted and raped either by real ghosts or by awfully adept repressed traumas… The screen literally explodes with a tumult of Hershey faces, shattering Steve Burum's original...Start your free trial to watch -
Patrick
After violently murdering his mother and her lover, Patrick (Robert Thompson) is confined to a private hospital, comatose. When a pretty young nurse (Susan Penhaligon) begins working at the hospital, Patrick tries communicating with her while others in her life are being hurt and killed in mysterious ways.Start your free trial to watch




