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Theme: Pacts with the Devil

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 Cookbook (2016)

14 October 20188 January 2020

Rating: ★★★

Possible Pacts with the Devil in the Woods

Director: Joel Potrykus
Actors: Ty Hickson
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

Anastasia (1997)

31 March 199921 August 2019

Rating: ★★★

Animation/Amnesiac Russian Royal

Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Actors: Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Christopher Lloyd, Kelsey Grammer, …
Category: Fantasy

Angel Heart (1987)

8 June 199929 June 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Film Noir/Pact with The Devil

Director: Alan Parker
Actors: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Elliott Keener, …
Category: Horror

At the Devil’s Door (2014)

3 April 201525 September 2019

Rating: ★★★

Diabolic Pacts and Impregnation

Director: Nicholas McCarthy
Actors: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Naya Rivera, Ashley Rickards, Wyatt Russell, …
Category: Horror

The Beast of the Yellow Night (1971)

24 January 2019

Rating: ★★

Beast Transformation/Pact with the Devil

Director: Eddie Romero
Actors: John Ashley, Mary Wilcox, Leopoldo Salcedo, Ken Metcalfe, …
Category: Horror

Bedazzled (1967)

4 June 200017 February 2021

Rating: ★★★

Pact with the Devil/Black Comedy

Director: Stanley Donen
Actors: Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Raquel Welch, Eleanor Bron, …
Category: Fantasy

Bedazzled (2000)

20 October 20008 November 2019

Rating: ★

Pact with the Devil Comedy

Director: Harold Ramis
Actors: Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O'Connor
Category: Fantasy

Belladonna of Sadness (1973)

7 March 20189 November 2019

Rating: ★★½

Anime Erotica/Temptation by the Devil

Director: Eiichi Yamamoto
Category: Fantasy

The Book of Life (1998)

6 November 199924 February 2020

Rating: ★★★

Second Coming Black Comedy

Director: Hal Hartley
Actors: Martin Donovan, Thomas Jay Ryan, P.J. Harvey, Dave Simonds, …
Category: Fantasy

Cherry Tree (2015)

10 October 201723 November 2020

Rating: ★★★

Devil Worship and Pregnancy

Director: David Keating
Actors: Naomi Battrick, Anna Walton, Sam Hazeldine, Elva Trill, …
Category: Horror

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe (1988)

5 May 200519 April 2020

Rating: ★★½

Epic Fantasy Adventure/Magical Otherworld

Director: Marilyn Fox
Actors: Barbara Kellerman, Richard Dempsey, Sophie Wilcox, Jonathan R. Scott, …
Category: Fantasy

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)

15 December 200519 April 2020

Rating: ★★

Epic Fantasy Adventure/Magical Otherworld

Director: Andrew Adamson
Actors: Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, …
Category: Fantasy

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

The Convent (1995)

25 January 200316 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Pacts with an Ambiguous Devil

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Actors: John Malkovich, Catherine Deneuve, Luis Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira
Category: Fantasy

Crossroads (1986)

8 December 200123 May 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Blues Music Quest/Pact With The Devil

Director: Walter Hill
Actors: Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, Jami Gertz, Robert Judd, …
Category: Fantasy

Damn Yankees (1958)

18 October 20135 June 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Musical/Pact with the Devil

Director: George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Actors: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Jean Stapleton
Category: Fantasy

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

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’s Advocate (1997)

23 August 20093 March 2020

Rating: ★★★½

The Devil is a Lawyer

Director: Taylor Hackford
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Judith Ivey, …
Category: Fantasy

The Devil’s Envoys (1942)

9 April 200129 July 2020

Rating: ★★★★

The Devil Tempts Innocent Lovers

Director: Marcel Carne
Actors: Alain Cuny, Arletty, Fernand Ledoux
Category: Fantasy

Faust (1926)

4 July 200028 May 2020

Rating: ★★★★★

Pact with the Devil

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

Faust (1994)

28 June 200212 November 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Pact with the Devil/Surreal Puppet Version

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Actors: Andrew Sachs
Category: Fantasy

Faust (2011)

27 December 201312 November 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Pact with the Devil

Director: Alexander Sokurov
Actors: Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk, Georg Friedrich, …
Category: Fantasy

Faust: Love of the Damned (2000)

4 April 200329 August 2020

Rating: ★

Comic-Book Adaptation/Demonic Avenger

Director: Brian Yuzna
Actors: Mark Frost, Jeffrey Combs, Andrew Divoff
Category: Horror

The First Power (1990)

17 August 200215 December 2020

Rating: ★★

Executed Killer’s Supernatural Revenge

Director: Robert Resnikoff
Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith, Jeff Kober, Mykelti Williamson, …
Category: Horror

Ghost Rider (2007)

26 March 200723 November 2019

Rating: ★★½

Comic-Book Avenger/Demonic Superhero

Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Peter Fonda, Wes Bentley, …
Category: Fantasy

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)

8 March 201210 October 2020

Rating: ★

Comic-Book Avenger/Demonic Superhero

Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Ciaran Hinds, Idris Elba, Violante Placido, …
Category: Fantasy

Gorenos (2016)

8 May 20198 May 2019

Rating: ★★½

Teen Finds His Soul Has Been Traded to a Demon

Director: Clarence Williams IV
Actors: Derek Simmons Jr, Lamar George, Marquis Wood, Kevin Sagoes, …
Category: Horror

The Hearse (1980)

25 January 200311 February 2021

Rating: ★★

Ghost Vehicle

Director: George Bowers
Actors: Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux, Perry Lang, …
Category: Horror

Heartless (2009)

13 December 201030 August 2018

Rating: ★★★½

Pacts with a Possible Devil Figure

Director: Philip Ridley
Actors: Jim Sturgess, Clemence Poesy, Timothy Spall, Eddie Marsan, …
Category: Horror

Highway 61 (1991)

18 April 201030 August 2018

Rating: ★★★★

Gonzo Road Movie/Pursuit By The Devil

Director: Bruce McDonald
Actors: Don McKellar, Valerie Buhagiar, Earl Pastko, Peter Breck, …
Category: Fantasy

Hunk (1987)

7 November 201430 August 2018

Rating: ★½

Pact with the Devil for the Perfect Male Body

Director: Lawrence Bassoff
Actors: John Allen Nelson, Deborah Shelton, Steve Levitt, Rebecca Bush, …
Category: Fantasy

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

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

7 September 201011 June 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Magical Circus/Deals with the Devil

Director: Terry Gilliam
Actors: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Andrew Garfield, …
Category: Fantasy

The Legacy (1978)

13 December 200217 May 2019

Rating: ★★

Occult Killings

Director: Richard Marquand
Actors: Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, John Standing, Margaret Tyzack, …
Category: Horror

Limit Up (1989)

8 June 200230 August 2018

Rating: ★

Pact with the Devil

Director: Richard Martini
Actors: Nancy Allen, Danitra Vance, Brad Hall, Dean Stockwell, …
Category: Fantasy

The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (1979)

9 September 20159 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Animation/Epic Fantasy Adventure/Magical Otherworld

Director: Bill Melendez
Actors: Rachel Warren, Simon Adams, Victor Spinetti, Liz Proud
Category: Fantasy

May the Devil Take You (2018)

21 October 20195 November 2020

Rating: ★★

Possessed Dead in the Cellar

Director: Timo Tjahjanto
Actors: Chelsea Islan, Pevita Pearce, Samo Rafael, Karina Suwandi, …
Category: Horror

The Monk (1990)

6 November 200530 August 2018

Rating: ★★½

Monk’s Temptation by the Devil

Director: Paco Lara
Actors: Paul McGann, Sophie Ward, Sophie Linfield, Isla Blair, …
Category: Horror

The Monk (2011)

15 April 201430 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Monk’s Temptation by the Devil

Director: Dominik Moll
Actors: Vincent Cassel, Deborah Francois, Josephine Japy, Frederic Noaille, …
Category: Horror

Needful Things (1993)

8 August 20008 December 2020

Rating: ★★

The Devil Stirs up a Small Town/Stephen King Adaptation

Director: Fraser C. Heston
Actors: Ed Harris, Max Von Sydow, Bonnie Bedelia, J.T. Walsh, …
Category: Horror

Nocturne (2020)

1 November 20204 December 2020

Rating: ★★★

Sisters Rivalry at a Music School/Occult Spell

Director: Zu Qurike
Actors: Sydney Sweeney, Madison Iseman, Jacques Colimon, Ivan Shaw, …
Category: Horror

The Phantom of the Opera (1989)

6 January 20038 January 2019

Rating: ★★★

Disfigured Madman Beneath the Opera House/Time Travel

Director: Dwight H. Little
Actors: Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White, Emma Rawson, …
Category: Horror

The Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

9 March 200120 August 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Phantom of the Opera Rock Musical Parody

Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: William Finley, Paul Williams, Jessica Harper, Gerrit Graham, …
Category: Horror

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973)

11 February 202011 February 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Eternally Youthful Libertine

Director: Glenn Jordan
Actors: Shane Briant, Nigel Davenport, Vanessa Howard, John Karlen, …
Category: Horror

The Presence (2010)

18 January 201327 April 2020

Rating: ★★½

Ghost Story

Director: Tom Provost
Actors: Mira Sorvino, Shane West, Justin Kirk, Tony Curran, …
Category: Horror

Ready or Not (2019)

29 November 201918 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Deadly Game of Hide and Seek

Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Actors: Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Henry Czerny, Andie McDowell, …
Category: Horror

Red Riding Hood (1987)

1 February 200030 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Fairy-Tale

Director: Adam Brooks
Actors: Craig T. Nelson, Amelia Shankley, Isabella Rossellini, Rocco Sisto, …
Category: Fantasy

Solomon Kane (2009)

21 July 201019 December 2020

Rating: ★★★

Puritan Era Sword and Sorcery/Robert E. Howard Adaptation

Director: Michael J. Bassett
Actors: James Purefoy, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Pete Postlethwaite, Mackenzie Crook, …
Category: Fantasy

Sometimes They Come Back … Again (1996)

24 September 20107 March 2020

Rating: ★

Supernatural Retribution

Director: Adam Grossman
Actors: Hilary Swank, Michael Gross, Alexis Arquette, Jennifer Aspen, …
Category: Horror

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

The Stand (1994)

1 July 20198 December 2020

Rating: ★

Showdown Between the Forces of Good and Evil After the Collapse of Civilisation/Stephen King Adaptation

Director: Mick Garris
Actors: Gary Sinise, Jamey Sheridan, Adam Storke, Rob Lowe, …
Category: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction

Storm of the Century (1999)

22 November 200829 April 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Stranger Manipulates a Small Town/Stephen King Mini-Series

Director: Craig R. Baxley
Actors: Tim Daly, Colm Feore, Debrah Farentino, Jeffrey DeMunn, …
Category: Horror

The Student of Prague (1926)

5 November 2018

Rating: ★★★½

Pact with the Devil/Malevolent Doppelganger

Director: Henrik Galeen
Actors: Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Agnes Esterhazy, Elizza La Porta, …
Category: Fantasy, Horror

The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

6 April 201513 June 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Anthology of Fantasy Tales/Ballet

Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Actors: Robert Rounseville, Robert Helpmann, Moira Shearer, Pamela Brown, …
Category: Fantasy

Twins of Evil (1971)

12 April 20035 April 2019

Rating: ★★★

Vampire Twins/Hammer Film

Director: John Hough
Actors: Peter Cushing, Madeline Collinson, Mary Collinson, Damien Thomas, …
Category: Horror

Unhallowed Ground (2015)

10 October 201730 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Occult Happenings at a Miltary Academy

Director: Russell England
Actors: Marcus Griffiths, Poppy Drayton, Rachel Petladwala, Thomas Law, …
Category: Horror

The Visitation (2006)

16 November 201515 September 2020

Rating: ★★½

Christian Film/Ambiguous Miracle-Healing Stranger

Director: Robby Henson
Actors: Martin Donovan, Edward Furlong, Kelly Lynch, Randy Travis, …
Category: Horror

Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus! (2010)

18 December 201130 August 2018

Rating: 0­

Gonzo Exploitation Homage

Director: Tony Watt, Vivita
Actors: Tony Watt, Amabelle Singson, James Taggart, Angela Faulkner, …
Category: Horror

Warlock: The End of Innocence (1999)

8 September 201330 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Demonic Envoy

Director: Eric Freiser
Actors: Ashley Laurence, Bruce Payne, Paul Francis, Jan Schweiterman, …
Category: Horror

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