If you’re here, it’s because you like horror movies and jumping on the couch. Your neighbors already know about your cries of fear on Friday night and have stopped calling the police. Luckily for them, for you… and for the police, wasted trips are so frustrating and gas is so expensive.
Today we bring you the best movies featuring exorcists and their stuff that have hit theaters in the last fifty years. Because although many are well known, there are little gems that are overlooked and worth it.
From timeless classics (you’re sure to discover in your mind which movie we’re talking about considering the title of the report) to much more modern stuff. As usual, We will leave their links to the platforms they are on so you can click and see immediately.
Dear reader who dared to watch those films, we can only wish you luck. scary and at home and with many people that only the bravest can see without all the lights on (there’s nothing wrong with seeing them that way, for the record it’s a free art).
The directors on this list have done very daring works. to a business where what works is stories with happy endings and action with superheroes. Therefore, it’s time to get acquainted with his works. It’s a genre-defining movie in its own right, starting with the first movie on the list.
7 movies with exorcists and items that will make you close your eyes
- Spiritualist
- The Warren File: Wizardry
- devil’s seed
- Property
- save us from evil
- Ouija: The Origin of Evil
- Poltergeist: Strange Events
Spiritualist
Regan, a twelve-year-old girl, suffers from paranormal phenomena such as levitation or manifestation of superhuman strength. Horrified after putting her daughter through multiple inconclusive medical tests, her mother goes to a priest for psychiatric studies.
Convinced that evil is not physical but spiritual, he believes it is demonic possession and decides on an exorcism… Adapted from William Peter Blatty’s novel inspired by a real exorcism that took place in Washington. in 1949
This movie is the birth of an entire genre and the reason millions of people have nightmares today. The Exorcist is undoubtedly one of the most important films in the history of the seventh art.
Winner of two Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Sound. There is a gem in William Friedkin’s filmography that we should all see. you first It’s available on both HBO Max and Prime Video, you choose where you want it.
- Title: Cinci
- Release date: 1973
- Duration: 2:00 hours
- platform: HBO Max
The Warren File: Wizardry
Based on a true story documented by renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren. It chronicles the supernatural encounters that the Perron family had at their home in Rhode Island in the early 70s.
The Warrens, famous researchers in the world of paranormal phenomena, answered the call of this family, who feared the presence of an evil presence on their farm.
Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson are responsible for reviving the horror genre in the world of cinema with The Warren File, one of the most successful epics of recent years. There are already more than three films, and a very interesting first proposal is relied on.
It premiered in 2013 and since then they have managed to join millions of viewers in the terror fire of exorcism and possession. If you like this genre and have very macho classics, The Warren File is what you’re looking for.
- Title: Warren File: Wizardry
- Release date: 2013
- Duration: 1:52 hours
- platform: HBO Max
devil’s seed
The Woodhouses, a New York couple, move into a building overlooking Central Park, where, according to a friend, a curse weighs on them. Once they settle in, they befriend their caring neighbors Minnie and Roman Castevet.
Faced with the prospect of a good future, the Woodhouses decide to have a child; however, When Rosemary got pregnant, all she remembers is making love to a strange creature. leaving your body full of scars.
As time passes, Rosemary begins to suspect that her pregnancy is not normal. And we’re not telling you any more why this is another classic worth every minute it takes…and look, it’s over two hours of film.
If you find it a bit slow and a bit old at first, that’s okay, it’s from 1968, the oldest in the entire list. And like a good classic, on the Spanish platform Film, which owns the cinema.
- Title: devil’s seed
- Release date: 1968
- Duration: 2:13 hours
- platform: movie
Property
An old woman’s house catches fire. Already in the hospital, they believe that he is crazy because of the incident, as he does not stop talking about his panic about the “box”. Days pass and her belongings are sold in a market in the garden of the lady’s house. It will be there where a girl and her father take the aforementioned box and take it home.
Then paranormal phenomena begin to occur, which a rabbi would have predicted as the evil acts of a demon emerging “out of the box” that must be expelled and resealed from where it came out.
As if something were killing her from within, like some evil that had devoured her and won’t let her escape, gradually the girl would consume her bones and stay in them. The premise is great, there are some really good scares… but the execution is what it is.
A thriller on nearly all movie theaters, The Possession works in the genre and horror genre, but it’s not a film for anything particularly notable. If you haven’t seen it, you either like it or you don’t.
- Title: property
- Release date:2012
- Duration: 1:32 hours
- platform: AppleTV+
save us from evil
Ralph Sarchie, a veteran New York police officer, works in the South Bronx and watches in his car that everything stays calm in the neighborhood.
However, what he really sees as work is his investigation in parallel with cases of aid in various demonic and human exorcism rites He does this with the help of a priest.
For the first time, Ralph finds illuminating clues that prove the supernatural events he’s been working on for months to be true. Another good premise that fits on our list but doesn’t fit the Oscars.
The good thing is that this service we all have in some way is on Netflix, so if you get bored you can always hit a good boat on the couch with this movie they promised us.
- Title: Protect us from evil
- Release date: 2014
- Duration: 1:55 hours
- platform: Netflix
Ouija: The Origin of Evil
This horror movie tells the story of a widowed mother and her two daughters who add a new trick to support their spiritual work and unwittingly invite the real devil into their home.
When? Her little girl, possessed by this cruel spirit, The family will have to face their most unbelievable fears to save him and send the devil back to the other side.
Many horror proposals have been tried over the past decade, but with little success. At least the critics weren’t prepared with Ouija: Origin of Evilbecause it got approval almost everywhere (but no important people).
The most interesting thing about this movie is that it was directed and written by Mike Flanagan, an old acquaintance of this magazine, because we have mentioned his horror series many times, almost all of them are great. Therefore, for one of the geniuses of the genre, Flanagan is already worth it.
- Title: Protect us from evil
- Release date: 2014
- Duration: 1:55 hours
- platform: Netflix
Poltergeist: Strange Events
The story revolves around the idyllic life of a middle-class American family who moves into a new house in a fairly quiet neighborhood and where nothing seems to have happened.
However, one night, the little girl goes down to the living room and when she comes to the television, she witnesses how a mysterious and powerful force emerges from behind the screen and communicates with her. From that moment on, a series of paranormal phenomena occur, including the disappearance of the youngest, which leads parents to do everything possible to get him back.
If you haven’t heard the phrase “Caroline, come into the light” in your life, you haven’t reached puberty. A classic as important as Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, Poltergeist: Strange Phenomena has made the horror of having the house under a graveyard a classic. And if he’s Indian, even worse.
It’s on HBO Max, a platform that has been working for several years to develop and expand the horror movie offering. They are definitely on the right track. Or so it seems to us who adore this genre.
- Title: Poltergeist: Strange Events
- Release date: 1982
- Duration: 1:54 hours
- platform: HBO Max
And with this classic we end the list with 7 movies with exorcists and items that will blindfold you.
We sincerely hope you have a good time having to stop the movies every 10 minutes because you can’t learn the plot from shouting so much.
Source: Computer Hoy
