10 exorcism films that will impress even skeptics

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Stories based on real events, film adaptations of comics and even the expulsion of people by ghosts.

10. Box of Damnation

• USA, Canada, 2012.
• Horror, thriller, detective.
• Duration: 92 minutes.
• IMDb: 5, 9.

The divorced Clyde Brenek goes with his daughter Emily to the fair, where he buys her a vintage box. After that, the girl's behavior changes: she is obsessed with a new toy and increasingly shows aggression. It turns out that the box contains a Jewish demon dybbuk, capable of inhabiting people.

The producer of this picture was made by the famous creator of "Evil Dead" Sam Raimi. It is very interesting that the plot is based on Jewish folklore, and not on Christian legends, as they do in most of these stories.

9. Rite

• USA, Hungary, Italy, 2011.
• Drama, horror, mysticism.
• Duration: 114 minutes.
• IMDb: 6.0.

Seminary graduate Michael Kovak is becoming increasingly skeptical and even considering abandoning these vows. Then the abbot sends him to Rome to study exorcism with the experienced father Lucas Trevent.

The painting by Mikael Hofström, known to the general public for the film 1408, is based on the book by Matt Beglio. And she, in turn, retells the real story. But most of all the audience was attracted by Anthony Hopkins, who perfectly played the father of Lucas Trevent.

8. Demons Deborah Logan

• USA, 2014.
• Horror, thriller, detective.
• Duration: 90 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 0.

A group of students makes a documentary about Alzheimer's disease. They negotiate with a woman whose mother, Deborah, suffers from this type of dementia, and begin to tape the oddities of the old woman's behavior. But gradually young people realize that Deborah is not sick, but possessed by an evil spirit.

Interestingly, the film really begins as a documentary about Alzheimer's sufferers. And therefore, the viewer, along with the heroes, experiences surprise and fright when supernatural forces intervene in the matter.

7. Deliver us from the evil one

• USA, 2014.
• Horror, mysticism, thriller.
• Duration: 118 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 2.

New York City Police Sergeant Ralph Sarchi confronts a distraught ex-Special Forces soldier who assaulted his wife. Then the hero goes to the zoo, where the woman threw her child into the lions' enclosure. It turns out that the two cases are related, and that supernatural forces are involved.

Horror master Scott Derrickson created this painting based on real events. Police officer Ralph Sarchi once really decided that he would hunt demons. And he even wrote a book about it Beware of the Night.

6. Black priests

• South Korea, 2015.
• Thriller, horror.
• Duration: 103 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 4.

Holy Father Kim must perform the rite of exorcism of the demon that possessed the body of the schoolgirl. For this, the hero needs an assistant. He invites the young deacon Choi, who is not too eager to study. But the young man also has his own fears from the past, which he will have to overcome in the fight against the demon.

The South Korean film has been staged as well as Hollywood films. She pleases with a dynamic setting and an unexpected mixture of genres. The almost comical communication of the main characters is quickly replaced by an atmosphere of real horror.

5. Six demons Emily Rose

• USA, 2005.
• Horror, thriller, drama.
• Duration: 119 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 7.

Lawyer Erin Bruner defends a priest in court who is accused of the death of nineteen-year-old Emily Rose. The girl died during an exorcism session, and doctors believe that she suffered from a severe form of epilepsy. However, the minister of the church claims that Emily was possessed by six demons at once.

The film is based on the real story of the death of Anneliza Michel. She suffered from serious psychiatric illnesses, but her family was convinced that the problems were due to supernatural forces. This was confirmed by the fact that Anneliese sometimes spoke in an eerie voice in unfamiliar languages.

4. Constantine: Lord of Darkness

• USA, Germany, 2005.
• Horror, fantasy, action, drama.
• Duration: 121 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 0.

In his youth, John Constantine attempted suicide and went to hell at the time of clinical death. Returning to life, he decided to devote himself to the fight against demons and other evil spirits that are torn into our world.

Keanu Reeves played the main role in the adaptation of the famous comic book series. Although he did not at all resemble a prototype, the audience loved the on-screen version of Constantine very much. The film begins precisely with the expulsion of another demon from a person.

3. Beetlejuice

• USA, 1988.
• Comedy, fantasy.
• Duration: 92 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 5.

A young couple of ghosts wants to drive new tenants out of their house and summons Beetlejuice's "exorcist for the living". But he turns out to be a completely uncontrollable bully, who only brings problems.

This comedy by Tim Burton, which made great actor Michael Keaton famous, stands out from the rest of the list. But nevertheless, the witty idea of exorcism, on the contrary, when demons expel people from their dwellings, is worth attention.

2. Conjuring

• USA, 2013.
• Horror, thriller, detective.
• Duration: 112 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 5.

Experienced exorcists Ed and Lorraine Warren lecture on otherworldly forces and banish ghosts from their homes. But one day a couple is faced with such a strong evil that not only the inhabitants of the cursed building, but also the spouses themselves are in danger.

The creator of the famous horror franchise "Astral" James Wang took as a basis for the plot of the memoir of the real Lorraine Warren. The woman claims that all these events actually took place. Although, of course, skeptics call them family scammers. But on the screens, it turned into a whole series of films with many spin-offs like "The Curse of Annabelle".

1. The exorcist

• USA, 1973.
• Horror.
• Duration: 122 minutes.
• IMDb: 8, 0.

Actress Chris McNeill's 12-year-old daughter is having terrible seizures. She behaves aggressively, moves strangely and speaks in a strange voice. Doctors in this situation are powerless, since the girl is not sick, but possessed by the devil.

The film by William Friedkin has become a true classic and a standard of horror about exorcism. The authors did a great job on both the makeup and the moving scenery. And the scene of the expulsion of evil spirits was sometimes called even too realistic.