This could be a hot take, but I used to be deathly afraid of all things related to possession/demons while religious because I thought it was a real threat which required me to be vigilant (sounds extremely absurd I know). But my god did it all completely change the minute I started deconstructing my beliefs and thinking about what actually happens in the real world. Which leads me to believe these types of movies are only popular because of Christianity’s ubiquity. I’m sure other religions have better illustrations of the paranormal that would be cool to see, but all we have is the product of centuries of colonialism. Because even movies with those types of illustrations are extremely orientalist. Bleh just another example of mayos bungling another aspect of culture for everyone else
This also could just be me being a complete buzzkill, but psychological/cosmic horror is where it’s at 💯
.rec has a pretty neat double supversion of posession and zombie movies.
There was that really goofy action movie years back where the angels decide to wipe out humanity for some reason but one angel decides to save baby jesus 2.0. Lots of dumb gunfights it's great.
The old Keanu Reeves Constantine movie was really dumb fun.
Frighteners is an ancient horror comedy about a fraud excorcist and his ghost buddies stumbling on something truly frightening.
Silent Hill is.a pretty neat movie. Almost all the protagonists are women and no one does anything silly
Fallen is a neat, albeit copaganda, supernatural thriller from way back in 98.
Dogma is an old comedy that's kind of a take that to a lot of silly catholic shit. Features J and Silent Bob. Very lib, very 90s.