Best Possession Movies & Films Subgenre

Plot / Synopsis: After losing their only grandson in a car accident, grief-stricken Audrey (Sheila McCarthy) and Henry (Julian Richings), a doctor, kidnaps his pregnant patient with the intentions of performing a "reverse Exorcism", putting Jackson inside her unborn child. It doesn't take long to figure out Jackson isn't the only ghost the grandparents invited into their home. Now it's a race...

Plot / Synopsis: Five military veterans, best friends since childhood, gather together to support their troubled host, and the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all-too-literal. December 27, 1945. Five military veterans gather in the ornate parlour of a Brooklyn brownstone. Best friends since childhood, they’ve reunited to support their troubled host – but when his invitation for cocktails turns into an...

Plot / Synopsis: 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 opens the door to the spirit world forcing them to choose who to trust: the dead or the living. Talk to the hand as Second Sight Films is definitely listening,...

Plot / Synopsis: In a North Dublin housing estate Char's mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family...

Plot / Synopsis: Haiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead to work in the hell of sugar cane plantations. 55 years later, a Haitian teenager tells her friends her family secret - not suspecting that it will push one of them to commit the irreparable...

Plot / Synopsis: Barry is a drug-addled, abusive ba**ard who - after yet another bender - is abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as an alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. What follows is an onslaught of drugs, s** and violence as our alien tourist enters the weird and wonderful world...

Plot / Synopsis: Moving the action out of the woods and into the city, "Evil Dead Rise" tells a twisted tale of two estranged sisters, played by Sutherland and Sullivan, whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable...

Plot / Synopsis: In post-war Spain, Narcisa (Aria Bedmar), a young novice with supernatural powers, arrives at a former convent, now a school for girls, to become a teacher. As the days go by, the strange events and increasingly disturbing situations that torment her will eventually lead her to unravel the terrible skein of secrets that surround the convent and haunt its...

Plot / Synopsis: A horrifying story of a shaman's inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. What could be possessing a family member might not be the Goddess they make it out to be...

Plot / Synopsis: Let Her Out follows Helen, a bike courier who suffers a traumatic accident. As she recovers, she begins to experience strange episodic-black outs, hallucinations, and night terrors-that lead her to discover that she has a tumor, a benign growth that is the remnants of a "vanishing twin" absorbed in utero. Over time, the tumor manifests itself as the dark...

Plot / Synopsis: Polish director Marcin Wrona committed suicide after filming Demon (2015), a film about a dybbuk demon (dibbuk). This demon-possession happens around the time of the man's wedding. Itay Tiran, Agnieszka Zulewska, and Andrzej Grabowski star in Demon...

Plot / Synopsis: After swapping bodies with a deranged serial killer, a young girl in high school discovers she has less than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent. Tagline: Basic switch. Killer new look...

Plot / Synopsis: After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality. "Paramount+ and Paramount Home Entertainment today announced that the terrifying and inventive horror phenomenon SMILE will be available to stream on Paramount+ and...

Plot / Synopsis: Sean Byrne directed The Devil's Candy (2015), and after a long wait period, IFC Films will release this film in movie theaters and on VOD this upcoming March 17, 2017. The Devil's Candy is produced by Keith Calder and Jessica Calder. Ethan Embry, Shiri Appleby, and Kiara Glasco star in The Devil's Candy...

Plot / Synopsis: After a young girl bursts into their home psychiatry practice claiming an entity is feeding on her, Jordan and her clairvoyant mother must find a way to stop the force before the girl is taken completely. The pulse-pounding trailer and stunning poster campaign for Chad Archibald’s mind-bending new horror feature, It Feeds has just been released. Get ready for a wild...