Movies about demon possession

Movies about demon possession
List of the best films about demon possession, selected by visitors to our site: The Nun, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, The Possession of Michael King, Talk to Me, The Last Exorcism, The Cleansing Hour, The Inhabitant, Nefarious, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Seventh Day.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Romania
Duration01:30

When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in “The Conjuring 2” as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, detective
CountryUSA

A chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. One of the most sensational cases from their files, it starts with a fight for the soul of a young boy, then takes them beyond anything they’d ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

The film tells the story of documentary filmmaker Michael King (Shane Johnson), who doesn’t believe in God or the Devil. Following the sudden death of his wife, Michael decides to make his next film about the search for the existence of the supernatural, making himself the center of the experiment – allowing demonologists, necromancers, and various practitioners of the occult to try the deepest and darkest spells and rituals they can find on him – in the hopes that when they fail, he’ll once and for all have proof that religion, spiritualism, and the paranormal are nothing more than myth. But something does happen. An evil and horrifying force has taken over Michael King. And it will not let him go.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror
CountryAustralia

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, France
Duration01:27

    After years of performing “exorcisms” and taking believers’ money, Reverend Marcus travels to rural Louisiana with a film crew so he can dispel what he believes is the myth of demonic possession. The dynamic reverend is certain that this will be another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic but instead comes upon the blood-soaked farm of the Sweetzer family and a true evil he would have never thought imaginable.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, fantasy
    CountryUSA

    Two millennial entrepreneurs stage elaborate fake exorcisms on social media until one of their girlfriends becomes possessed by a demon.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:53

    Three sisters enter the house of a senator with the intention of stealing money obtained from bribes, but once inside, they begin to hear strange cries coming from the basement.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA

    On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

      When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrehorror, detective
      CountryUSA

      A renowned exorcist teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and evil blur, and their own demons emerge.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, comedy
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:42

        A newly possessed cheerleader turns into a killer who specializes in offing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain

        Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, investigates a young boy's terrifying possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrehorror, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:00

        When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrehorror
        CountryCanada, USA

        The Lamberts must go deeper into The Further than ever before to put their demons to rest once and for all.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada

        A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades-old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryTurkey

        Dilek, a housewife suddenly starts to feel presence of something abnormal in a specific room in their house. Though her husband, Omer refuses to agree with her but situation become worse. They find out that, an ancient paranormal creature called Jinn, has cursed on Dilek. They seek for a way to cure her but instead they find out some shocking event of Dilek's early life.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, fantasy
        CountryThailand, South Korea

        A horrifying story of a shaman’s inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. But the goddess that appears to have taken possession of a family member turns out not to be as benevolent as it first appears.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:38

        A university student and some classmates are recruited to carry out a private experiment -- to create a poltergeist. Their subject: an alluring, but dangerously disturbed young woman. Their quest: to explore the dark energy that her damaged psyche might manifest. As the experiment unravels along with their sanity, the rogue PHD students, led by their determined professor, are soon confronted with a terrifying reality: they have triggered an unspeakable force with a power beyond all explanation.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrehorror, action, fantasy
        CountrySouth Korea
        Duration01:39

        After waking up with mysterious wounds on his hands, a champion fighter finds himself in an otherworldly battle against evil forces that wreak havoc in the human world.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
        CountrySoviet Union
        Duration01:17

        A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her teenage friends must find a way to escape the horror that seems to be only a few steps behind.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountrySpain
        Duration01:38

        Fifteen-year-old Emma Evans is like any other teenage girl; she thinks that her parents don´t understand her. She longs for independence and a life free of family ties and responsibilities and she is prepared to do anything to achieve it. But one day she will be forced to face up to the consequences of her actions.Life seems to be carrying on as normal, until one day Emma starts experiencing frightening fits. Her parents are convinced that her problems are either medical or psychological, but when doctors´ tests are unable to draw any conclusions, the family is forced to look elsewhere for answers.It all started off as a bit of fun, Emma never really believed it, but the truth is there is something dark and sinister within her, and it won´t take long to surface.

        Markimdb: 4.2
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA, Israel, United Kingdom

        After a series of disturbing supernatural events in his home, Joel a young single father, comes to suspect that his young son may be possessed. Soon Joel receives a visit from Father Lambert, a controversial exorcist in town whose last patient died during his treatment. As increasing chilling occurrences begin to unfold, the priest informs a resistant Joel that unless he can successfully perform an exorcism, the devil will soon take full control of his boy.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, comedy
        CountryUSA

        A reality TV crew's staged investigation into the paranormal becomes terrifyingly real when the house they're exploring turns out to be haunted by the ghost of a serial killer.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountrySouth Korea

        To save a girl in danger, a priest and deacon jump into a mysterious case.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA

        INNER DEMONS follows an 'Intervention'-style reality show crew that films an episode about a sixteen-year old girl, a former A-student, who is fighting addiction but may in fact be suffering from something even more destructive: demonic possession. The movie is an inquiry into the truth about her - with symptoms that straddle the disturbing and scary intersection between insanity, addiction and true possession.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        A detached university student faces the consequences of astral projection when he uses it to reconnect with his dead mother.

        Markimdb: 3.7
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        In a rambling, isolated house, Emily’s first night-shift as carer to an elderly dementia patient turns into a nightmare as she is tormented by a vengeful spirit and uncovers the house's dark secrets.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Romania, USA
        Duration02:54

        When a priest is jailed for the murder of a nun on whom he was performing an exorcism, an investigative journalist strives to determine whether he in fact murdered a mentally ill person, or if he lost the battle with a demonic presence.

        Markimdb: 4
        Genrehorror, comedy
        CountryUSA

        When a party bus on it's way to the Burning Man music festival breaks down in the desert and in the middle of a group of Satanic devil worshippers, all hell literally breaks loose. A massacre leaves seven survivors trapped in the bus, fighting for their lives while wondering if someone or others are not who they seem.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:28

        A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genredrama
        CountryGermany
        Duration01:33

        Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon begins hearing voices and seeing apparitions that tell her to avoid religious objects, although she is devoutly Roman Catholic. One priest scoffs at the idea that Michaela could be possessed by demons, but a younger pastor arranges an exorcism for the young woman.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

        Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the undead newlyweds turn to an expert frightmeister, but he's got a diabolical agenda of his own.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA

        When an old clock arrives at home as a gift, strange things begin to happen. The family that proudly assigned a privileged place to the clock in the living room, is unaware that this thing is a link to an old and evil house...

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountrySouth Korea

        Jin-Myung is a psychiatrist and exorcist. With his assistant, Ji-Kwang, they attempt an exorcism on Geum-Joo. She suffers from a bizarre phenomenon. They then face a powerful existence within Geum-Joo. Extreme horror arises out of her.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, comedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:23

        An exorcism comedy which follows the Order of Hellbound Saints (Brooklyn Parish), a highly secretive and profoundly blasphemous men of God, as they battle demonic forces too terrible to be cast out by traditional Vatican-approved methods.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA

        When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrehorror
        CountryMexico

        A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:05

        Taking place years after The Haunting of Molly Hartley, who now, as an adult, has fallen under the possession of an evil spirit and must be exorcised by a fallen priest before the devil completely takes her.

        Markimdb: 3.9
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA, France, Nepal

        A dramatic mystery where a haunted teen endures a terrifying exorcism in the hopes of unlocking shocking secrets about the church and his family.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        An unexpected pregnancy takes a terrifying turn for newlyweds Zach and Samantha McCall.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA, Mexico
        Duration01:37

        A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus received when crucified. When the Vatican gets word of Frankie's situation, a high-ranking cardinal requests that the Rev. Andrew Kiernan investigate her case. Soon Kiernan realizes that very sinister forces are at work, and tries to rescue Frankie from the entity that is plaguing her.

        Markimdb: 4
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA

        After a troubled childhood, Ashley searches for a connection, and unknowingly invites in a demonic force, which leaves her loved ones fighting for her soul.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, comedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:21

        It's been some time since Father Jebedaiah Mayii exorcised the Devil from little Nancy Aglet, who is now grown up with a husband and two children of her own. But the prince of darkness wants to go a second round and has returned to repossess her! With Father Mayii unwilling to help, Father Luke Brophy tries his best to help Nancy, even when TV's Ernest Weller plans to air the exorcism live on TV.

        Markimdb: 3.7
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA

        The film takes place in an undisclosed part of Florida, in which a priest is called upon to help exorcise Gail Bowers, who has come to be possessed by malevolent forces.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genrehorror
        CountryCanada

        Alexandra is a lively college student returning to live with her roommates Jessica and Breanne after the summer holidays. After a night of drinking, Alex agrees to a psychic reading to learn about her future with her boyfriend, Brian, but during the reading a dramatic turn of events causes SOMETHING to go drastically wrong. When Alex awakes the next day, she cant remember the events of the night before. She begins to hear creepy noises, hallucinate, black out and receive unidentifiable scratch marks all over her body. Afraid shes going crazy, she seeks help from her friends but Jessica, Breanne and Brian are incapable of comprehending the scope of the darkness descending UPON her. Instead, Alex receives help from a school professor and his father who have dealt with the supernatural before. But as Alexs condition worsens, it becomes apparent that it may already be too late to stop the entity from using Alexs body as a gateway into our world (IMDb.com).




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