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Theme: Hell

976-Evil (1988)

10 June 200229 August 2019

Rating: ★★

Demonic Telephone Line

Director: Robert Englund
Actors: Stephen Geoffreys, Sandy Dennis, Patrick O'Bryan, Jim Metzler, …
Category: Horror

The Alchemist (1983)

5 March 201524 April 2020

Rating: ½

Evil Sorcerer

Director: Charles Band
Actors: Robert Ginty, John Sanderford, Robert Glaudini
Category: Horror

All That Money Can Buy (1941)

17 January 20103 March 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Pact with The Devil

Director: William Dieterle
Actors: Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, James Craig, Simone Simon, …
Category: Fantasy

Angel on My Shoulder (1946)

4 May 200025 August 2019

Rating: ★★★

Man Returns From Hell to Do the Devil’s Mischief

Director: Archie Mayo
Actors: Paul Muni, Claude Rains, Anne Baxter, George Cleveland, …
Category: Fantasy

As Above So Below (2014)

30 August 201422 September 2019

Rating: ★★

Found Footage/Gateway to Hell

Director: John Erick Dowdle
Actors: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, Francois Civil, …
Category: Horror

The Beyond (1981)

6 March 20106 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Italian Zombie Film/Gateway to Hell

Director: Lucio Fulci
Actors: Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Veronica Lazar, Al Cliver
Category: Horror

Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)

5 September 20205 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Time-Travelling Slackers Reach Middle-Age

Director: Dean Parisot
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Kristen Schaal, Samara Weaving, …
Category: Science Fiction

Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)

1 June 20015 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Slackers in the Afterlife

Director: Peter Hewitt
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, Joss Ackland, …
Category: Fantasy, Science Fiction

The Black Hole (1979)

3 January 200026 November 2019

Rating: ★★

Lost Spaceship/Mad Scientist/Journey into a Black Hole

Director: Gary Nelson
Actors: Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins, …
Category: Science Fiction

Cabin in the Sky (1942)

9 January 200321 February 2020

Rating: ★★

Afterlife Comedy/All Black Musical

Director: Vincente Minelli
Actors: Eddie Rochester Anderson, Ethel Waters, Rex Ingram, Kenneth Spencer, …
Category: Fantasy

A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)

3 April 200118 April 2020

Rating: ★★★★★

Hong Kong Supernatural Fantasy/Ghost Romance

Director: Ching Siu-Tung
Actors: Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Wu Ma
Category: Fantasy

City of the Living Dead (1980)

30 July 200321 April 2020

Rating: ★★

Italian Zombie Film

Director: Lucio Fulci
Actors: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Janet Agren, …
Category: Horror

Clash of the Titans (2010)

3 April 201022 April 2020

Rating: ★

Greek Mythology Adventure

Director: Louis Leterrier
Actors: Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, …
Category: Fantasy

Constantine (2005)

7 March 200515 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Occult Investigator/Comic Book Adaptation

Director: Francis Lawrence
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Peter Stormare, Shia LaBeouf, …
Category: Horror

Constantine: City of Demons (2018)

13 January 201931 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Animation/Occult Investigator/Comic Book Adaptation

Director: Doug Murphy
Actors: Matt Ryan, Damian O'Hare, Laura Bailey, Robin Atkin Downes, …
Category: Fantasy, Horror

Dante’s Inferno (1924)

2 April 20202 April 2020

Rating: ★★½

Vision of Hell

Director: Henry Otto
Actors: Ralph Lewis
Category: Fantasy

Dante’s Inferno (1935)

13 October 20017 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Vision of Hell

Director: Harry Lachman
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Henry B. Walthall, Alan Dinehart
Category: Fantasy

Dante’s Inferno (2007)

28 May 20107 June 2020

Rating: ★★★

Vision of Hell/Puppet Show

Director: Sean Meredith
Actors: Dermot Mulroney, James Cromwell, Martha Plimpton, Tom Hallick, …
Category: Fantasy

Dark Angel: The Ascent (1994)

6 December 20137 June 2020

Rating: ★★★

Female Demon Visits Earth

Director: L. Hassani
Actors: Angela Featherstone, Nicholas Worth, Charlotte Stewart, Milton James
Category: Fantasy

Dark House (2014)

12 April 201511 June 2020

Rating: ★★★

House of Evil/Backwoods Deviltry

Director: Victor Salva
Actors: Luke Kleintank, Tobin Bell, Anthony Ray Perez, Alex McKenna, …
Category: Horror

Deal of a Lifetime (1999)

13 April 20021 July 2020

Rating: 0­

Pact with the Devil Comedy

Director: Paul Levine
Actors: Kevin Pollak, Jennifer Rubin, Shiri Appleby, Ron Glass, …
Category: Fantasy

Deconstructing Harry (1997)

17 April 19996 July 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Writer’s Self-Analysis Comedy

Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Kirstie Alley, Judy Davis, Demi Moore, …
Category: Fantasy

The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)

20 December 200127 July 2020

Rating: 0­

Pacts with the Devil/Disney Comedy

Director: Steven Hilliard Stern
Actors: Bill Cosby, Elliott Gould, Susan Anspach
Category: Fantasy

The Devil in Miss Jones (1973)

23 December 201520 September 2020

Rating: ★★★

Porn Film/Woman Returns from Hell to Experience Lust

Director: Gerard Damiano
Actors: Georgina Spelvin, Harry Reams
Category: Fantasy

The Devil’s Carnival (2012)

17 September 201928 February 2021

Rating: ★★

Carnival for Damned Souls in Hell

Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Actors: Sean Patrick Flanery, Briana Evigan, Jessica Lowndes, Terrance Zdunich, …
Category: Fantasy, Horror

The Devil’s Eye (1960)

4 May 20089 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

The Devil Tempts Innocents Comedy

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Gertrud Fridh, Nils Poppe, …
Category: Fantasy

Drive Angry (2011)

26 February 201126 December 2019

Rating: ★★★

Occult Car Chase Film

Director: Patrick Lussier
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner, Billy Burke, …
Category: Horror

Emperor Visits the Hell (2012)

11 October 201225 February 2020

Rating: ★★★

Modernised Journey to the West

Director: Li Luo
Category: Fantasy

Event Horizon (1997)

29 June 20085 December 2020

Rating: ★★

Haunted Spaceship

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Joely Richardson, Kathleen Quinlan, …
Category: Science Fiction

Father’s Day (2011)

14 February 201229 January 2021

Rating: ★★

Troma Film/Possessed Killer/Bad Taste Splatter

Director: Adam Brooks, Jeremy Gillespie, Matthew Kennedy, Steven Kostanski, …
Actors: Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Conor Sweeney, Amy Groening, …
Category: Horror

Faust (1926)

4 July 200028 May 2020

Rating: ★★★★★

Pact with the Devil

Director: F.W. Murnau
Actors: Emil Jannings
Category: Fantasy

The Flight of Dragons (1982)

29 May 201215 December 2020

Rating: ★★½

Animation/Epic Fantasy

Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr
Actors: John Ritter, Harry Morgan, James Earl Jones, Don Messick, …
Category: Fantasy

Forbidden Zone (1982)

12 August 201116 December 2020

Rating: ★★★

Gonzo Other-Dimensional Musical

Director: Richard Elfman
Actors: Herve Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, Matthew Bright, Kedric Wolfe, …
Category: Science Fiction

Fractured (2013)

26 March 201517 December 2020

Rating: ★★

Amnesiac Man Struggles Between Hell and Redemption

Director: Adam Gierasch
Actors: Callum Blue, Vinnie Jones, Ashlyn Yennie, Nicole LaLiberte, …
Category: Horror

Ghost (1990)

19 October 200227 August 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Man Returns as a Ghost

Director: Jerry Zucker
Actors: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, …
Category: Fantasy

Good Omens (2019)

14 June 201910 October 2020

Rating: ★★½

Biblical End Times/Antichrist Comedy

Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Actors: Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Sam Taylor Buck, Jack Whitehall, …
Category: Fantasy

Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)

1 May 200114 January 2020

Rating: ★★★

Sadomasochistic Demons

Director: Tony Randel
Actors: Ashley Laurence, Clare Higgins, Doug Bradley, Kenneth Cranham, …
Category: Horror

Hellraiser (1987)

25 November 200023 April 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Sadomasochistic Demons

Director: Clive Barker
Actors: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Oliver Smith, …
Category: Horror

Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)

16 February 20081 July 2020

Rating: ★★

Sadomasochistic Demons

Director: Alan Smithee, Kevin Yagher
Actors: Bruce Ramsay, Doug Bradley, Valentina Vargas, Kim Myers, …
Category: Horror

Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002)

22 November 20133 October 2019

Rating: ★★

Sadomasochistic Demons/Reality Games

Director: Rick Bota
Actors: Dean Winters, Ashley Laurence, William S. Taylor, Doug Bradley, …
Category: Horror

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)

1 May 200119 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Sadomasochistic Demons

Director: Anthony Hickox
Actors: Doug Bradley, Terry Farrell, Paula Marshall, Kevin Bernhardt
Category: Horror

Hellraiser: Inferno (2000)

16 September 200019 June 2020

Rating: ★★★

Sadomasochistic Demon

Director: Scott Derrickson
Actors: Craig Sheffer, Doug Bradley, Nicholas Turturro, James Remar, …
Category: Horror

Hellraiser: Revelations (2011)

17 November 20118 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Sadomasochistic Demons

Director: Victor Garcia
Actors: Nick Eversman, Steven Brand, Jay Gillespie
Category: Horror

Hercules (1983)

19 October 20026 March 2020

Rating: 0­

Greek Mythological Hero

Director: Luigi Cozzi
Actors: Lou Ferrigno, Sybil Danning, Mirella D'Angelo, William Berger, …
Category: Fantasy

Hercules in the Center of the Earth (1961)

1 June 200415 October 2020

Rating: ★★★

Greek Mythological Hero

Director: Mario Bava
Actors: Reg Park, Christopher Lee, Ida Galli, Leonora Ruffo
Category: Fantasy

Highway to Hell (1991)

16 December 200930 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

Afterlife Parody

Director: Ate de Jong
Actors: Chad Lowe, Kristy Swanson, Patrick Bergin, C.J. Graham, …
Category: Fantasy

Hiruko the Goblin (1990)

12 December 200415 February 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Gateway to Hell/Demons Unleashed

Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Actors: Kenji Sawada, Masaki Kudou, Hideo Murota, Megumi Ueno, …
Category: Horror

The House That Jack Built (2018)

8 February 20199 May 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Serial Killer

Director: Lars von Trier
Actors: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, …
Category: Horror

I Was a Teenage Faust (2001)

28 October 201230 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Pact with the Devil Comedy

Director: Thom Eberhardt
Actors: Robert Townsend, Morgan Fairchild, Josh Zuckerman, Caroline Elliott, …
Category: Fantasy

Justice League vs Teen Titans (2016)

8 December 201730 November 2020

Rating: ★★½

Animation/Comic-Book Superheroes

Director: Sam Liu
Actors: Stuart Allan, Taissa Farmiga, Kari Wahlgren, Brandon Soo Hoo, …
Category: Fantasy

The Lazarus Effect (2015)

28 February 201516 January 2021

Rating: ★

Experiments in the Resurrection of the Dead

Director: David Gelb
Actors: Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, Sarah Bolger, Evan Peters, …
Category: Horror

Little Nicky (2000)

10 November 20005 December 2020

Rating: ★

The Devil’s Son Comedy

Director: Steven Brill
Actors: Adam Sandler, Harvey Keitel, Rhys Ifans, Patricia Arquette, …
Category: Fantasy

Lurkers (1987)

3 March 201530 August 2018

Rating: ½

Hauntings and Mysterious Happenings

Director: Roberta Findlay
Actors: Christine Moore, Gary Warner, Marina Taylor, Peter Oliver-Norman, …
Category: Horror

Maciste in Hell (1925)

28 May 202028 May 2020

Rating: ★★½

Italian Muscleman in Hell

Director: Guido Brignone
Actors: Bartolomeo Pagano
Category: Fantasy

The Mad Monk (1993)

4 May 200229 April 2020

Rating: ★★½

Hong Kong Heavenly Comedy

Director: Ching Siu-Tung, Johnny To
Actors: Stephen Chow, Maggie Cheung, Paul Chun, Anita Mui
Category: Fantasy

Manborg (2011)

17 November 201229 January 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Cyborg Hero/Deliberately Bad SF Film

Director: Steven Kostanski
Actors: Matthew Kennedy, Conor Sweeney, Meredith Sweeney, Ludwig Lee, …
Category: Science Fiction

Meet Mr Lucifer (1953)

5 May 200030 August 2018

Rating: ★★

The Devil Stirs Mischief Via TV

Director: Anton Pelissier
Actors: Stanley Holloway, Gordon Jackson, Jack Watling, Joseph Tomelty, …
Category: Fantasy

Melies Cinemagician (2011)

12 June 200223 May 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Compilation of Georges Melies Shorts

Director: Georges Melies
Category: Fantasy

Necromentia (2009)

29 May 201327 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Hallucinations, Fetish and Gateways to Hell

Director: Pearry Teo
Actors: Chad Grimes, Santiago Craig, Layton Matthews
Category: Horror

Night Angel (1990)

9 September 200030 August 2018

Rating: ★½

Demonic Temptress

Director: Dominique Othenin-Girard
Actors: Linden Ashby, Isa Andersen, Debra Feuer, Karen Black, …
Category: Horror

Nine Miles Down (2009)

20 May 201131 January 2019

Rating: ★★½

Possible Borehole Opened to Hell by a Mining Operation

Director: Anthony Waller
Actors: Adrian Paul, Kate Nauta, Meredith Ostrom, Amanda Douge, …
Category: Horror

Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)

14 February 201022 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Greek Myth in the Present Day

Director: Chris Columbus
Actors: Logan Lerman, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Brandon T. Jackson, …
Category: Fantasy

Satanic (2016)

2 October 201819 May 2019

Rating: ★★★

Pursuit by Satanists

Director: Jeffrey Hunt
Actors: Sarah Hyland, Steven Krueger, Justin Chon, Clara Mamet, …
Category: Horror

Scrooge (1970)

16 December 20005 July 2019

Rating: ★★½

Miser’s Redemption

Director: Ronald Neame
Actors: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, David Collings, Edith Evans, …
Category: Fantasy

The Sentinel (1977)

15 February 200026 April 2019

Rating: ★

Haunted Apartment/Gateway to Hell

Director: Michael Winner
Actors: Cristina Raines, Chris Sarandon, Burgess Meredith, Eli Wallach, …
Category: Horror

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)

31 January 201627 October 2019

Rating: ★★★

South Park Film/Absurdist Adult Animation

Director: Trey Parker
Actors: Eric Idle, George Clooney, Brent Spiner, Dave Foley, …
Category: Fantasy

Spawn (1997)

8 March 200812 September 2019

Rating: ★★

Demon Superhero/Comic-Book Adaptation

Director: Mark A.Z. Dippé
Actors: Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, Martin Sheen, Theresa Randle, …
Category: Fantasy

Stay Tuned (1992)

17 August 20024 May 2019

Rating: ½

Hell as a TV Show Comedy

Director: Peter Hyams
Actors: John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones, David Tom, …
Category: Fantasy

The Supernormal (1992)

6 July 20148 January 2020

Rating: ★★★

Chinese Supernatural Documentary

Director: Lo Ting Kit
Actors: Edward Li
Category: Fantasy

Tales from the Hood (1995)

23 July 201410 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

African-American Horror Anthology

Director: Rusty Cundieff
Actors: Clarence Williams III, Samuel Monroe Jr, Joe Torry, De'Aundre Bonds, …
Category: Horror

Tonight I’ll Possess Your Corpse (1967)

27 May 201430 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

Malevolent and Sadistic Undertaker

Director: Jose Mojica Marins
Actors: Jose Mojica Marins, Tina Wohlers, Nadia Freitas, Antonio Fracari, …
Category: Horror

Trump vs The Illuminati (2020)

23 October 202023 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Gonzo Satire/Trump’s Clone Fight The Devil in Space

Director: B.C. Fourteen
Actors: Timothy Banfield, Marco Guzman, Sophia Woods Stevens, Wes Bruff, …
Category: Science Fiction

Vampires and Other Stereotypes (1994)

19 June 200126 June 2020

Rating: ★★½

Gateway to Hell

Director: Kevin J. Lindenmuth
Actors: William White, Mick McCleery, Rick Poli, Laura McLauchlin
Category: Horror

Versus (2000)

16 January 200510 September 2019

Rating: ★★½

Yakuza Zombies/Splatter

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Actors: Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Misaka, Kenji Matsuda, …
Category: Horror

What Dreams May Come (1998)

16 May 199916 September 2019

Rating: ★★★★

The Afterlife

Director: Vincent Ward
Actors: Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr, Annabella Sciorra, Max Von Sydow, …
Category: Fantasy

Witchery (1988)

6 January 20051 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Haunted Hotel/Retribution from Hell

Director: Martin Newland, Fabrizio Laurenti, Joe D'Amato
Actors: David Hasselhoff, Linda Blair, Leslie Cummings, Catherine Hickland, …
Category: Horror

Zhongkui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal (2015)

28 November 201617 September 2020

Rating: ★★½

Wu Xia Film

Director: Peter Pau, Zhao Tianyu
Actors: Chen Kun, Li Bingbing, Winston Chao, Yang Zishan, …
Category: Fantasy

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Theme Essays

  • Disaster Movies
  • Steampunk Films
  • Documentaries
  • Films About Halloween
  • Films About Prophecy
  • Nazis
  • Magicians and Sorcerers
  • Secret Societies
  • Real-Life People in Fiction
  • Techno-Thrillers
  • Twins in Fantastic Cinema
  • Asylums
  • Possession Films
  • Sexual Fetishism in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Imaginary and Magical Lands
  • Religion in Fantastic Cinema
  • Romantic Comedies
  • Film Noir
  • Spy Films
  • Jekyll and Hyde Films
  • Films That Make Dubious Claims to Being Based on True Stories
  • Coming of Age Stories in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Cryogenics and Suspended Animation
  • Alternate History Films
  • Disturbed Psychology as Portrayed on Film
  • Law Enforcement in Fantastic Cinema
  • Weird Westerns

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