List of Occult Movies & Series selected by VAMzzz Publishing
In these dense times filled with an overload of information, we also need to relax. That’s why we started a movie & series selection based on quality, focusing on mythology, demonology, folklore, magick, witchcraft, and paranormal subjects.
The movies and series can be found on the major streaming platforms (Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, Disney, Showtime, etc.). You can use the platform Just Watch, a streaming guide, to find our recommendations.
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Series:
- American Gods (USA, 2017-2021) Trailer
Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she’s been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, he is greeted by a strange man in the seat next to him. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible. He warns Shadow that a far bigger storm is coming. And from that moment on, nothing will ever be the same. - Archive 81 (USA, 2022) Trailer
When archivist Dan Turner takes a mysterious job restoring a collection of damaged videotapes from 1994, he finds himself reconstructing the work of documentary filmmaker Melody Pendras and her investigation into a dangerous cult. As Dan is drawn into Melody’s story, he becomes convinced he can save her from the terrifying end she met 25 years ago. - Atiye (The Gift, Turkey, 2019-2021) Trailer
Atiye, with her family and lover Ozan, leads a simple and happy life in Istanbul until her life changes with a discovery made in Göbeklitepe, the world’s oldest temple. The archaeologist Erhan, who carries out excavations in the region, discovers a symbol that reveals the mystical relationship between Atiye and Göbeklitepe. - Brand New Cherry Flavor (USA, 2021) Trailer
Lisa Nova, an aspiring film director in the sun-drenched but seamy world of 1990 Los Angeles, embarks on a mind-altering journey of supernatural revenge that gets nightmarishly out of control. - Catweazle (UK, 1970-1971) Watch on YouTube
Catweazle is a magician from the time of the Normans who is cast into the future by magic. With the help of two boys he uses magic in an attempt to return to his own time. - Cidade Invisível (Invisible City, Brazil, 2021-2023) Trailer
An underground world is inhabited by mythical creatures evolved from a deep lineage of Brazilian folklore. One detective who finds himself caught in a murder investigation that puts him in the middle of a battle between these two worlds. - El Elegido (The Chosen One, Mexico, 2023) Trailer
Jodie, a twelve-year-old boy from Santa Rosalía, Baja California Sur, who after surviving a freak accident, discovers that he has Jesus-like powers: He can turn water into wine, make the crippled walk and perhaps even raise the dead. How will he deal with his destiny and lead the world through a conflict that’s been thousands of years in the making? - Fringe (USA-Canada, 2008-2013) Trailer
The FBI teams up with a formerly-institutionalized scientist–who was performing experiments on the fringe of real science–and his son to investigate weird crimes that are seemingly part of a larger pattern, and could be connected with a global company called Massive Dynamic. - Good Omens (UK-USA, 2019) Trailer
- Grimm (USA, 2011-2017) Trailer
Portland detective, Nick Burkhardt, has seen some gruesome crime scenes, but nothing prepares him for the strange visions he begins seeing: seemingly regular people momentarily transforming into hideous monsters. A visit from his only living relative reveals the truth. - Jinn (Jordan, 2019) Trailer
On an overnight school trip to the city of Petra, the students are told of the tales of Jinn, ancient supernatural creatures that both those that existed peacefully with humans and those that wanted to destroy humanity. While some expressed disbelief, others believed some of the stories, including that they can take the shape of both animals and humans. A few of the students splinter off to party and one of them who was a bully to others, (including one particular student who is rescued by a classmate after the bully leaves him in a hole) mysteriously falls off a cliff. - Krakowskie Potwory (Cracow Monsters, Poland, 2022) Trailer
The main character, a medical student (Alex), meets a mysterious professor and his elite group of students. To his amazement, he discovers that, under the guise of scientific research, the group is doing something completely different. Alex becomes embroiled in a plot that confronts her with the world of Slavic beliefs, ancient monsters and bloodthirsty deities.
- La Forêt (The forest, France, 2017) Trailer
Sixteen-year-old Jennifer disappears one night from her village in the Ardennes. Captain Gaspard Deker leads the investigation with local cop Virginie Musso, who knew the girl well. They are helped by Eve, a lonely and mysterious woman. - Lore (USA, 2017) Trailer
- Lucifer (USA, 2016-2021) Trailer
Lucifer Morningstar, bored from his sulking life in hell, comes to live in Los Angeles. While there, he helps humanity with its miseries through his experience and telepathic abilities to bring people’s deepest desires and thoughts out of them. - Midnight Mass (USA, 2021) Trailer
The tale of a small, isolated island community whose existing divisions are amplified by the return of a disgraced young man and the arrival of a charismatic priest. When Father Paul’s appearance on Crockett Island coincides with unexplained and seemingly miraculous events, a renewed religious fervor takes hold of the community – but do these miracles come at a price.
- Nisser (Elves, Denmark, 2021) Trailer
Hoping to reconnect over Christmas, a family of four travels to a remote island in the Danish archipelago, only to find it controlled by members of a strongly religious community living in balance with fierce creatures in the woods revealed to be – elves. Real, monstrous beings that inspired the folklore and myths we all know.
- Penny Dreadful (UK-USA, 2014-2016) Trailer
Explorer Sir Malcolm Murray, American gunslinger Ethan Chandler, scientist Victor Frankenstein and medium Vanessa Ives unite to combat supernatural threats in Victorian London. - True Blood (USA, 2008-2014) Trailer
Set in modern times, vampires roam the Earth and are humans’ mortal enemies. However, a substitute has been found for human blood, a substitute that vampires can consume with the same effect as human blood. This is True Blood. Now humans and vampires can co-exist in harmony, and even form relationships. But there will always be rogue elements on both sides ready to exploit the uneasy truce. - Yaratilan (Creature, Turkey, 2023) Trailer
One of the most fundamental questions of humanity, “death and beyond”. The biggest wish of Ziya, an adventurous, rebellious and excited young medical student, is to be a very good physician and cure many epidemics that medicine cannot find a cure for. - The X-Files (USA, 1993-2018) Trailer
Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully work in an unassigned detail of the bureau called the X-Files investigating cases dealing with unexplained paranormal phenomena. Mulder, a true believer, and Scully, a skeptic, perceive their cases from stand points of science and the paranormal.
Movies:
- 1408 (USA, 2007) Trailer
A man who specialises in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror. - Abyzou (The Offering, USA-UK-Bulgaria, 2022) Trailer
The son of a Hasidic funeral director returns home with his pregnant wife to reconcile with his father. But there’s an evil presence lurking in the family morgue. An ancient entity with a sinister plan waits for his unborn child. - A Dark Song (Ireland-UK, 2016) Trailer
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want. - Agora (Spain-USA, 2009) Trailer
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria. - Annihilation (US-UK, 2018) Trailer
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don’t apply. - Constantine (USA, 2005) Trailer
Supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine helps a policewoman prove her sister’s death was not a suicide, but something more. - Crimson Peak (USA-Mexico, 2015) Trailer
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds – and remembers. - Demon (Poland-Israël, 2015) Trailer
A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk. - Errementari (The Blacksmith and the Devil, Spain, 2017) Trailer
Errementari is a re-telling of an ancient Basque fable about a Blacksmith who finds himself battling the Devil. In this story the Blacksmith has captured a demon and lives a life of hermit-like seclusion away from the prying eyes of the townsfolk. All is going well until a desperate little girl, Usue, accidentally stumbles across the devil and unknowingly releases him. - Gräns (Border, Sweden, 2018) Trailer
A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence. - Las brujas de Zugarramurdi (Witching & Bitching, Spain, 2013) Trailer
A gang of armed robbers finds a safe haven in a secluded village crammed with witches – only to encounter the bizarre, the unexpected, and the occult. Can they save themselves, and the rest of the world from the next witch apocalypse? - Only Lovers Left Alive (UK, 2013) Trailer
Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangiers, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. - Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico-Spain, 2006) Trailer
In 1944 Falangist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. - The Exorcist (USA, 1973) Trailer
When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life. - The Possession (USA-Canada, 2012) Trailer
A young girl buys an antique box at a yard sale, unaware that inside the collectible lives a malicious ancient spirit. The girl’s father teams with his ex-wife to find a way to end the curse upon their child. - The Prophecy (USA, 1995) Trailer
At the scene of a bizarre murder, L.A. homicide detective Thomas Dagget discovers a lethal heavenly prophecy now being fulfilled on earth. Yet in his fight to stop the forces of evil, led by the powerful angel Gabriel, Dagget finds an unlikely ally in an elementary school teacher. - The Ritual (UK-Canada, 2017) Trailer
A group of old college friends reunite for a trip to a most dangerous country in Europe – Sweden, encountering a menacing presence there stalking them. - The Shape of Water (USA-Mexico, 2017) Trailer
At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity. - The Vigil (USA, 2019) Trailer
A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity, in writer-director Keith Thomas’ electrifying feature debut. - The Witch (UK-USA, 2009) Trailer
A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession. - Troll (Norway, 2022) Trailer
Deep inside the mountain of Dovre, Norway, something gigantic awakens after being trapped for a thousand years. Destroying everything in its path, the creature is fast approaching the capital of Norway, with city-dweller struggling to stop something they thought existed only in Norwegian folklore. - Van Helsing (USA-CzechRepublic, 2004) Trailer
The famed monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula, who is using Dr. Frankenstein’s research and a werewolf for nefarious purposes. - What We Do in the Shadows (New Zealand, 2014) Trailer
Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are struggling with the mundane aspects of modern life, like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts. - Young Frankenstein (USA, 1974) Trailer
An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
(Source: IMBD)
