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29 films tagged possession

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  • 2025 · Animation

    Shin-chan and his friends win a dance contest and are flown to India to perform, where a backpack from an antique shop turns one of them into a rampaging monster. Cartoon slapstick for children.

    • Strongly light
    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Super Magnificent! Scorching Kasukabe Dancers

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Dark Nuns

    Little-known

    2025 · Thriller

    A boy shows signs of possession and the Church holds off, so a nun known for pushing past the rules takes the case on herself. She is paired with a younger, more skeptical nun, and it is mostly the two of them.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Dark Nuns

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Horror

    The Warrens have retired and Ed's heart is bad when a Pennsylvania family with an antique mirror in the house starts losing sleep. Their daughter, who sees things too, gets pulled in.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Conjuring: Last Rites

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • The Ritual

    Little-known

    2025 · Horror

    In 1928 Iowa a young woman's family calls in a priest known for exorcisms, and a younger, doubting priest is sent along with him. Based on a real case, and mostly the sessions themselves in one room.

    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Ritual

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Sarvam Maya

    Little-known

    2025 · Comedy

    An atheist guitarist from a family of Brahmin priests runs out of work and starts standing in for his cousin at temple rituals, including an exorcism that appears to work. Strange things start happening to him, and it is played as a comedy.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Sarvam Maya

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Vicious

    Little-known

    2025 · Horror

    An old stranger hands a woman a wooden box and tells her she will die that night unless she gives it three things: something she hates, something she needs and something she loves. One house, one night, one woman.

    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Vicious

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Pretty Crazy

    Little-known

    2025 · Comedy

    An unemployed man falls for the woman who moves in downstairs, then meets a frightening other version of her in the lift the next morning. Broad romantic comedy with a demon in it.

    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Pretty Crazy

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • The Parenting

    Little-known

    2025 · Horror

    Two men rent a country house so their parents can meet for the first time, and the weekend is going badly before the house itself starts acting up. A comic haunting with both sets of parents stuck in it.

    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Parenting

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2026 · Horror

    A young widow goes to stay with her husband's family at their vacation house after his death, and the reunion turns into Deadites one by one. One house, and it gets bloody fast.

    • Clearly fantastic
    • Clearly simple
    • Clearly plot-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Evil Dead Burn

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2026 · Horror

    A reporter's daughter is taken in Cairo, and eight years later she is back with the family, partly mummified and not alone inside. Loud possession horror that moves between Egypt and New Mexico.

    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Lee Cronin's The Mummy

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Ice Cream Man

    Little-known

    2026 · Horror

    An ice cream truck arrives in a seaside town and the children who eat from it start killing the adults, leaving three who did not eat to get away. Gory and fast, and it does not let up.

    • Clearly simple
    • Clearly fast
    • Clearly plot-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Ice Cream Man

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2026 · Horror

    Risa has spent years shutting out the spirits she can see, until her younger sister starts behaving strangely after a night at an old theatre. To help her she has to open that door again.

    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Danur: The Last Chapter

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Evil Dress

    Little-known

    2026 · Horror

    A divorced woman moves into an old house with her daughter to start again, and the place has a past. The girl picks up a blue dress that connects her to a ghost, and her behaviour changes.

    • Clearly simple
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Evil Dress

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2023 · Horror

    A struggling late-night host books a Halloween special in 1977 with a parapsychologist and the girl she says came out of a satanic cult. Presented as the tape of that broadcast, near enough in real time.

    • Strongly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Late Night with the Devil

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2024 · Horror

    A young wife in 1830s Germany is haunted by something that has wanted her since childhood, while her husband is sent to a Carpathian castle to close a property deal. Slow and dark, built on dread rather than jumps.

    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Nosferatu

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2022 · Horror

    A therapist watches a patient do something terrible in front of her, and afterwards starts seeing strangers smile at her the same way. Loud, full of jump scares, and it does not let up.

    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Smile

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2022 · Horror

    Teenagers in Adelaide pass around an embalmed hand that lets a spirit into whoever holds it, ninety seconds at a time, and film each other doing it. Loud and fast, and it gets nasty.

    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Talk to Me

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2015 · Horror

    Two students are left behind at a Catholic boarding school over the winter break, while a young woman hitches a ride through the snow toward them. Very slow, very quiet, and told out of order.

    • Strongly slow
    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Blackcoat's Daughter

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2013 · Horror

    A family move into an old Rhode Island farmhouse in 1971, things start happening at night, and they call in a married pair of investigators. A straight haunted-house film of quiet shots and loud noises.

    • Clearly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Conjuring

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2016 · Horror

    A clumsy village policeman in rural Korea looks into a run of killings that began after a Japanese stranger moved into the woods. Two and a half hours that start out funny and do not stay that way.

    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Wailing

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Horror

    A brother and his blind stepsister are placed with a foster mother who has recently lost a child of her own. It gets very unpleasant, and it does not look away.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Strongly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Bring Her Back

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2009 · Horror

    A loan officer refuses an old woman an extension to impress her boss, and the woman puts something on her. Slapstick and shocks in roughly equal measure.

    • Strongly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Drag Me to Hell

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 1987 · Horror

    A man is trapped in a cabin in the woods with a recording that keeps waking the things outside, and eventually with his own hand. Slapstick, gore, eighty-five minutes.

    • Strongly fantastic
    • Strongly fast
    • Clearly simple
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Evil Dead II

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Host

    Little-known

    2020 · Horror

    Six friends in lockdown hold a seance over a video call and something comes through. Fifty-seven minutes, entirely inside the call window.

    • Strongly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Host

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2010 · Horror

    A boy will not wake up after a fall in the attic, and moving house does not help his parents at all. Quiet for half of it, then very loud.

    • Strongly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Insidious

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2007 · Horror

    A couple set up a camera in their bedroom to record what has been happening at night. Mostly a static shot of two people asleep.

    • Strongly intimate
    • Strongly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Paranormal Activity

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2012 · Horror

    A true-crime writer moves his family into the house where the murders happened, and finds a box of home movies in the attic. Dark rooms and a projector.

    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Sinister

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 1981 · Horror

    Five students take a cabin in the Tennessee woods and find a book and a tape recorder in the cellar. Cheap, nasty and relentless.

    • Strongly simple
    • Strongly fantastic
    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Evil Dead

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 1973 · Horror

    A film star's twelve-year-old daughter starts behaving strangely in Georgetown, and the doctors run out of tests. Slow for an hour, and clinical about it.

    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Exorcist

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.