Ritual sacrifice movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant ritual sacrifice movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, tense, scary, disturbing and bleak films and TV shows about / with ritual sacrifice, ritual, murder, occult, supernatural, female nudity, sacrifice, ritual murder, occult ritual and danger plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as ritual sacrifice: A Woman Possessed (1975), The Taking (2013), Night of the Beast (1993), Cannibal Taboo (2006), Monster Portal (2022), Impetigore (2019), Bad Blood (2012), Muse (2017), The Pale Door (2020), The Devil Rides Out (1968).

List of ritual sacrifice movies

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A Woman Possessed (1975)
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Laurent, a seemingly normal young man, is looking to join a witches’ sect that resides in a forest near his house. The only thing is Laurent’s wife Aline also needs to join the sect in order to complete his initiation. Aline is understandably ...
Style: suspense, rough, bleak, scary, psychotronic
Plot: ritual sacrifice, female whipping, witch, occult, ritual, possession, torture, humiliation, rape, sect, coven, witchcraft ...
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 1.8
 891
The Taking (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Two strangers must discover a way to escape a sinister family who wishes to sacrifice their souls to an evil presence.
Style: rough, scary, suspense, weird
Plot: survival, sacrifice, murder, youth, near death experience, showdown, merciless, life & death, runaway, trap, curses spells and rituals, danger ...
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Night of the Beast (1993)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lukas Armand, a skull-faced movie producer, is auditioning lovely young starlets for his upcoming low-budget horror pic. The girls are delighted to learn they've been chosen to star in the film until Lukas' creepy gofers; Jason and Mad-dog ...
Style: independent film, detective, slasher
Plot: aspiring actress, exotic dancer, hollywood, human sacrifice, warehouse, secret passageway, abduction, hanging, demon, coven, devil worship, female nudity ...
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 3.9
 187
Cannibal Taboo (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Cannibal Taboo tells the story of Janet, a young woman raised in the wilds of Africa who is rescued by explorer Cliff Hendricks. When Cliff contracts a rare blood disease, Janet must leave her jungle ways to care for her husband and their four ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, surprise ending, independent film ...
Plot: exploitation, domineering mother, dysfunctional family, cannibal, murder, ritual sacrifice, human sacrifice, mother son relationship, family secret, family relations, religions or cults, religious cult ...
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 3.3
 292
Monster Portal (2022)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A cult is about to waken H.P. Lovecraft's most feared creature.
Style: tense, disturbing, suspense, lovecraft
Plot: ritual sacrifice, ritual, paranormal phenomena, giant monster, demon, monster, satanic cult, supernatural horror, occult ritual, occult, curses spells and rituals, undercover ...
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 6.6
 7K
Impetigore (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, South Korea, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Enticed by a promise of inheritance, a young woman returns to the village of her birth. Unbeknownst to her, the villagers hide a sinister plan -- one that may require her very own death.
Style: disturbing, suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: curse, folk horror, village, black magic, remote location, ritual sacrifice, hometown, runaway, mysterious past, terror, ritual murder, murder ...
Place: indonesia
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 5.5
 131
Bad Blood (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Bad Blood...The Hunger! For several College Students embarked on a summer of sun and fun find that their adventure turns eerily Macabre when dark and ancient forces propel them into a sinister Enclave peopled by Human, Night-Stalking, Ravenous, ...
Style: suspense, scary, rough, slasher, sinister ...
Plot: trapped, forbidden love, human sacrifice, flesh eating, young love, ritual sacrifice, summer vacation, survival horror, murder, insanity, supernatural power, danger ...
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 5.4
 4K
Muse (2017)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Ireland, Belgium, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered in a strange ritual. Suddenly, the same ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, psychological, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: literature, good versus evil, death, supernatural, muse, brutality, husband wife relationship, murder, investigation, blood, professor, police investigation ...
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The Pale Door (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Dalton gang escape to a nearby town after a train robbery goes south, but they are met by a coven of witches with sinister plans for the unsuspecting outlaws.
Style: suspense, captivating, scary, bleak, mumblecore ...
Plot: witch, cowboy, brothel, outlaw gang, train robbery, church, nymph, occult, violence, seductress, sex scene, ritual ...
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The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the ...
Style: gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, dark ...
Plot: occult, black magic, supernatural, coven, folk horror, satanism, witch, zombie, serial killer, curses spells and rituals, psychopath, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, year 1968, year 1929
Place: england, europe
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 7.1
 396K
Midsommar (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 148 min.
Story: A young couple travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, brutal, enigmatic, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: paganism, ritual, religious cult, folk horror, community, nervous breakdown, pagan, rite, isolated community, burned alive, female protagonist, hallucinogenic drug ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: new york, europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
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 4.4
 7K
Death of Me (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A couple on holiday on a remote South Pacific island awaken one morning with a hang over and no recollection of what transpired. When playing back a video of the previous night, they see they participated in a local ritual that somehow ends with him ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, dark, splatter
Plot: snake, hallucination, american tourist, strangulation, typhoon, supernatural, travel, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, uncover truth, twists and turns, murder, nothing goes right ...
Place: thailand
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The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.
Style: scary, mind bending, bloody, surreal, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: monster, supernatural, creature, survival, cabin in the woods, trapped, zombie, fear, werewolf, dark humor, death, danger ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2000, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: usa
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 3.9
 449
Portal (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: When an ambitious ghost hunter performs a risky ritual, opening a portal to "the other side", he and his team quickly find themselves way in over their heads in a fight for survival against an ancient demonic force.
Style: dark, bleak, scary, suspense, psychotronic
Plot: ghost hunter, supernatural power, ritual, ghost story, haunted house, portal, ghost, ritual sacrifice, change of heart, danger, paranormal activity, obsession ...
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 4.6
 286
Bloodbath (1975)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Liechtenstein
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Chicken, a desperate hippie junkie living in a small Spanish village, is finding it difficult to separate fantasy and reality. This isn't helped by the villagers practising magic and child sacrifice, or his involvement with a group of boozy ...
Style: psychedelic, psychological, psychological horror, independent film
Plot: religious cult, hippie, religion, ritual sacrifice, surrealism, expatriate, drowning, swimming pool, female nudity, aging, homosexual, bull ...
Place: spain
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The Jonestown Haunting (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A survivor of the Jonestown massacre returns to the site 10 years later and discovers the cult's former home has become a breeding ground for the supernatural.
Style: suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, mysterious, mystical
Plot: mass suicide, defector, preacher, therapist, female protagonist, survivor, flashback sequence, religion, murder, mass murder, mysticism, unsettling ...
Time: 70s
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Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Rooted in the conflict between characters connected to the deity Santa Muerte and others allied with the Devil, this saga explores an exciting mix of the supernatural and the combustible reality of 1938 Los Angeles, a time and place deeply infused ...
Style: detective, captivating, disturbing, bleak, scary ...
Plot: police, supernatural, manipulative woman, murder investigation, pretending to be someone else, corrupt cop, mysticism, ritual murder, confession, murder, curses spells and rituals, uncover truth ...
Time: year 1938, pre world war two
Place: los angeles
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 5.7
 570
Human Animals (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The harmony of a seemingly idyllic neighborhood is disrupted when a dog attacks a young girl.
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: kidnapping, home invasion, killing an animal, dog, neighbor, revenge, criminal, murder, anxiety, blood, brutality, young couple ...
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 4.9
 649
Qorin (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Zahra, a third year student at Rodiatul Jannah boarding school, has always been a model student who has many achievements in school. Zahra is willing to obey any orders from Ustad Jaelani, her teacher, to get grades. Including the task of taking ...
Style: tense, mystical, thrilling, suspenseful, indonesian
Plot: ritual, student, boarding school, occult ritual, ritual sacrifice, supernatural horror, paranormal, problem, mysticism, paranormal activity, supernatural, dead ...
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 6.3
 3K
The Clearing (2023)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 391 min.
TV show
Story: A woman is forced to confront the nightmares of her past in order to stop a secret cult intent on gathering children to fulfil its master plan.
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot: victim, female protagonist, occult ritual, life is a bitch, confronting the past, dark past, secret, ritual sacrifice, troubled past, satanic cult, tragic past, ritual ...
Place: australia
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Curse of the Blind Dead (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the Thirteenth century, a group of Satan worshipers, the Knights Templar, are captured during a ritual and brutally murdered by the locals. Just before the execution, the Knights swear to return from their graves to haunt the village and the ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, scary, suspenseful
Plot: walking dead, living dead, undead, supernatural horror, evil dead, knights templar, zombie, occult ritual, ritual, curses spells and rituals, monastery, satanic ritual ...
Time: 14th century
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 6.7
 48
The Call (2006)
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A group of professional Moscow investigators consisting of three people – Alexey Khromov, his assistant Igor Lyamin and forensic expert Olga Barysheva – specializes in solving mysterious crimes…
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot: forensics, murder mystery, ritual murder, investigation, murder investigation, sleuth, small town, homicide detective, small town life, killing spree, suicide, crime investigation ...
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Sheriff Tom Vs. The Zombies (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: One year after Mary Horror's rampage, Sheriff Tom has her spell book and wicked intentions of his own.
Style: tense
Plot: ritual murder, zombie, curses spells and rituals, living dead, ritual sacrifice, conscription, small town sheriff, murderer, serial killer, sheriff, undead, absurd humor ...
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The Devil's Throat (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
TV show
Story: At the height of the refugee crisis in Bulgaria, a competent DANS employee and an ambitious local investigator are investigating the murder of a retired police officer in the border town of Smolyan. The clues are gradually turning them into a ...
Style: enigmatic, suspense, disturbing, mystical, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder investigation, occult ritual, ritual murder, murder, murder mystery, ritual sacrifice, ritual, satanic ritual, mysticism, cave, brother vs brother, religious conflict ...
Place: bulgaria
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Angel of Death (2020)
Genre: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: A young girl is murdered near Opole. Terrifying body mutilations and marks left in place indicate ritual murder. The matter is being dealt with by Commissioner Agnieszka Polkowska. Due to the extraordinary cruelty of the crime and the suspicion that ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: murder investigation, homicide detective, murder, psycho killer, uncover truth, murder mystery, serial killer, religious fanatic, investigation, religions or cults, crime solving, society ...
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Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, 2016. Two corpses appear in the crypt of the Old Cathedral. Police officer Unai López de Ayala, an expert in criminal profiling, must hunt down the ritual murderer who has been terrorizing the city for two ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, ritual murder, investigation, church, jail, police, love triangle, journalist, ritual sacrifice, satanic ritual, police investigation, murder ...
Place: basque country
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The Believers (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, bloody ...
Plot: ritual, voodoo, supernatural, child in peril, religion, murder, investigation, gory, brutality, torture, ritual murder, family relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, minneapolis minnesota, brooklyn new york city
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 4.4
 85
Blood Symbol (1992)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Centuries ago, the monks of the Cult of the Blood Symbol went searching for their "chosen one" whose blood, they believed, would make them immortal. Olam, the only living survivor of the cult, finally finds his intended victim in Tracy ...
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: ritual sacrifice, baseball, cemetery, supernatural, occult, occult ritual, photograph, school, book, stalker, symbol, swing ...
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After finding himself in a world known as the Mushroom Kingdom, A Brooklyn plumber Mario must travel through this world with a princess named Peach and a mushroom named Toad to find his brother Luigi and save the world from a ruthless fire-breathing ...
Style: 3d animation, anime, humorous, captivating, funny ...
Audience: kids, family friendly
Plot: princess, brother brother relationship, unlikely hero, evil, mushroom, plumber, evil king, superhero, adaptation, gorilla, power, car chase ...
Time: 2020s
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york
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AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When scientists discover something in the Arctic that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the ...
Style: scary, exciting, splatter, action packed, breathtaking ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, monster, deadly creature, survival, save the world, predator, space, alien invasion, evil alien, first contact, creature, human sacrifice ...
Time: future, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, jurassic ...
Place: antarctica, nepal, nebraska, mexico
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