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- Rosemary's Baby (1968) Directed by Roman Polanski. Starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon. Drama, Horror (2h 17m) 8.0 on IMDb — 96% on RT. Based on Ira Levin's 1967 psychological horror novel, Rosemary's Baby is a cultural landmark of cinema.
- The Wicker Man (1973) Directed by Robin Hardy. Starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento. Horror, Mystery, Thriller (1h 28m) 7.5 on IMDb — 90% on RT.
- Get Out (2017) Directed by Jordan Peele. Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford. Horror, Mystery, Thriller (1h 44m) 7.8 on IMDb — 98% on RT.
- Midsommar (2019) Directed by Ari Aster. Starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren. Drama, Horror, Mystery (2h 28m) 7.1 on IMDb — 83% on RT. Ready to get tripped out?
Jul 10, 2019 · He made one of 2018's best horror films, the brilliant and terrifying Hereditary, and while the plots of the two films are very different, they do have one thing in common--a scary cult. But these ...
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Feb 24, 2021 · Below, 13 movies and series about cults. Some are real-life stories. Others are only based on real stories. And a few are pure fiction, but certainly feel real. Either way, you won't be able to ...
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- Joshua Ocampo
- Movies About Cults
- Other Movies with Or About Cults
- 10 Great Cult Documentaries
- Further Reading
The Black Cat
Horror legends Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff team up in what is thought to be the first horror film to depict satanism as a cult. Karloff plays the leader of a satanic group who takes his orders from a book called The Rites of Lucifer. As he plans to sacrifice a beautiful blonde woman to Satan during the New Moon, Lugosi’s character attempts to save the day.
The City of the Dead
A young female college student with an interest in the occult pays a visit to the fictional town of Whitewood, Massachusetts, where a witch had been burned at the stake in 1692. Upon her arrival, she realizes that witchcraft is anything but dead in the town. The following incantation by one of the followers caused the film to be banned in several places:
Manos: The Hands of Fate
A notoriously bad film—so bad that even its director called it the worst film ever made—this was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, whose creators also called it the worst movie they’d ever had to mock. Even its name is dumb—“manos” means “hands” in Spanish, so the film’s title literally translates as Hands: The Hands of Fate. In short, a family gets lost driving around in the desert and encounters a polygynous pagan cult led by someone known as The Master. (“Polygynous” means that a m...
If you’re still hungry for more films, here are some other movies throughout the ages that might quench your fanaticism for cult movies. 1. El Topo(1970) an early 70s movie about a religious cult in the desert and a massacre. 2. The Pyx (1973) also known as The Hooker Cult Murders, is a supernatural horror film with a Black Mass held by a Roman Cat...
If you’re in the mood for something a bit more real, here are ten great documentaries about cults. 1. Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple(2006) focuses on the infamous religious/communist experiment in Guyana led by the Reverend Jim Jones, whose 900+ followers committed mass suicide in 1978. 2. Waco: The Rules of Engagement(1997) covers...
Feb 3, 2022 · There's no denying that cults are uniquely terrifying. Cult stories — both fiction and true — scare and captivate us simultaneously. In today's world, when someone is involved with a cult, we ...
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Oct 14, 2022 · Even without a horror movie setting, cults are terrifying. From the satanic to the doomsday, cults have existed in reality for centuries, ruining countless lives.
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May 21, 2024 · Cult stories have been the subject of horror films for years due to the endless stories and perspectives to be told. Two common perspectives are used in such films, with the first being the point of view of members currently existing within a cult. Films similar to The Other Lamb detail members' day-to-day lives and the eventual attempt to escape.
