Cults, witches, demons, devils, Satan, that's the type of horror I'm in the mood for. Doesn't need to be English, been watching a lot of foreign horror this month too, but obvs subtitle files will be needed if it isn't streaming.
Nothing too spooky for this brave corgi!
I have a thing for movies about cults so here's a few off the top of my head:
Mandy (Horror Action and probably kind of obvious)
Midnight Special (superb brooding indie sci-fi)
Society (late 80s horror most Hexberries would appreciate, just try not to read anything about it first)
Apostle (indie horror set in 1905 with lots of religious themes, shades of The Wicker Man)
The Endless (indie sci-fi drama about two brothers facing their past time in a cult)
Kill List (British indie psychological horror with a great escalation)
Those last 3 are ones I haven't seen yet, and a friend told me about The Endless a few months ago as a big HPL nerd. Will start there!
I think you'll probably really enjoy all three. They're all very different too.
7/10 - cathartic to see the librarian get got, I feel like the cult could have been spookier. On to The Endless!
assuming you've seen Hellraiser no?
Okay so like, this family, a father, mom and daughter, move into their grandma's empty house, and discover that the Dad's weird Brother has been camping out there. It's established in a flash back that the Brother hooked up with the Mom right before she married the Dad and she's still kinda horny for him. Also the Brother was some kind of super crazy sex pervert who did so much sex pervert stuff that he felt he had exhausted all the pleasures the Earth had to offer and so bought some kind of demonic Rubik's cube from some dude cuz he heard a legend that if you solve it you gain access to some other dimension of pure pleasure. So he takes it to his grandma's house and solves it and it turns out it summons some fucked up torture demons who come from a dimension where pain and pleasure are the same thing so they just take him and torture him a bunch, but he sorta gets into it a bit, kinda. Also like he can't die so they just like torture him till he's a big pile of living viscera.
Anyway back in the present, the Dad accidentally spills some blood on the floor of of the room his Brother summoned the demons in and that allows the Brother to come back from the demon world, but he's still a living pile of guts. He is able to talk to his horny sister-in-law though and tells her he can become a normal dude again if he can drink a bunch of blood so she goes out and picks up dudes at bars and brings them back so the gross guts guy can eat them and become less gross. The daughter finds out about this and freaks the fuck out, steals the Rubik's cube and runs away, but passes out from how freaky it all is. She wakes up in the hospital and solves the Rubik's cube and the demons show up and are like "sweet we can torture you till you're kinda into it" and she's like "I think you want my pervy uncle" and they're like "sure help us find him and we'll just torture him forever and he'll kinda be into it". So like she goes back home and her Dad's been killed by her sex pervert uncle but now he's wearing her Dad's skin and she summons the demons who they take both her perv Uncle and Mom away to torture land and she runs away and tries to throw the Rubik's cube away, but some weird hobo who's been in the background of the movie the whole time shows up and grabs it, turns into a flying demon, and brings it back to the merchant dude who gave it to the sex pervert Uncle guy in the first place and then he gives it to some other sex pervert guy.
The End.
Yep! Both the original, 2, and the newest one. Newest one is FANTASTIC!
"Midnight Mass" was cool, though a miniseries.
"Hereditary " I assume you've seen. absolutely spookiest flick I've seen in a while.
"Blair Witch Project" was probably the first to do found footage and took advantage of indie-word of mouth-fan marketing in the era where only dorks used the dialup internets. I was a late teen and thought it was actual footage when I saw it in the theater when it launched at our local art house joint. scared the shit out of everyone in the place, lmao.
"Devil in Ohio" is cheeseball and a miniseries, but the satanic cult lore is excellent and intriguing. I was hooked as soon as the cult girl said grace before dinner.
"Archive81" another miniseries. old New York cult action and all types of ill shit. this might be ongoing with a season 2 on the way. whoops.
"The Night House". demon stuff. some people didn't like it, but I found it compelling mentally and visually. I still think about it, like over a year after viewing.
The tension in the scene in Hereditary where
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the son notices the grinning naked man standing in the closet in the living room and they stare at each other for what feels like 20 seconds while the audience knows his mother is hiding on the ceiling just out of frame had me holding my breath and gnashing my teeth, the suspense was so fucking painful
I'll say Midsommar was also really good, and done by Ari Aster who did Hereditary.
Small spoiler for Midsommar for something 10-20 minutes in but
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the cult in this one are white supremacists
The Devil in Ohio is something I was excited for and my wife and I hate-watched most of it.
Big spoilers for TDiO
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The fact that the abused cult survivor turned out to be a secret manipulative villain is fucked up in an out of universe way. The whole show would have been better if they'd leaned into "regular American family is more fucked up than a human sacrifice cult, almost" thing, but it felt like we were supposed to sympathize with the family as they treated the mom and Mae like shit. Idk, it was weird.
Prince of Darkness, probably the least known and appreciated of John Carpenter's "apocalypse" trilogy. Basically Satan is in liquefied form in a vat in the basement of this creepy church. It's legitimately scary, mind-fucky, plus it's got Donald Pleasance and Alice Cooper in supporting roles.
Satan is in liquefied form in a vat in the basement of this creepy church
SOLD!
I would honestly not reccomend anyone watch it. I unlocks my inner karen. After watching I felt like maybe movies can go too far and someone should think of the children.
Romero's Season of the Witch and basically anything by Dario Argento.
Anyone got some non-horror films with just demons chilling and having a good time?
I thought you were taking the piss at first. I'll throw this on my list!
Day of the Beast. About a priest who figures out when the anti-christ will be born and sells his soul to the devil in order to find out where he will be born so he can kill him before he takes over the world. He gets help from a metalhead and a tv psychic.
Did you see the green knight? It's got some spooky witchcraft in it. More fantasy than horror but it is dark. It's a really solid cult movie.
Hereditary, The Wailing, The Witch
Ordered most scary to least scary (IMO). All great horror movies, but Hereditary is probably my favorite. It's terrifying. The Wailing works well as a mystery, The Witch is also interesting as a period piece.
Possession is one of my go to movies for ruining sn evening
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_(1981_film)
Black Death with Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, and the woman who played Melisandre on GOT. Medieval horror suspense during the plague. I enjoyed it. Great costume department.
Dark Song was good, not great, but I really loved the end to The Wailing.
Yeah, some people don't like the ending to A Dark Song. Well, since you've apparently already seen both, how about
It's Polanski, which is a bit icky, but the movie's fantastic.
A classic.
HAIL SATAN!
honestly, with this thread, I'm hoping to find stuff that I either haven't heard of, or things that I know of but have been forgetting to sit down with.
