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Pumpkinhead (1988)

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Pumpkinhead
Movie
6.2/10on IMDb
Released
Try this for backwoods creature horror built around a grieving father's mistake. He asks a witch for revenge after his son dies. The demon she helps him summon keeps hunting even after he sees what his request means for the people it targets.
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Pyewacket (2017)

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Pyewacket
Movie
5.8/10on IMDb
Released
Watch this for the dread of saying something in anger and having a ritual make it stick. Leah calls up a spirit to kill her mother after a fight, then has to find out whether the spell can be recalled once she wants her mother safe.
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Suspiria (2018)

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Suspiria
Movie
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
Choose the 2018 version for slow, body-horror-heavy ritual. The choreography in a Berlin dance academy gives a newcomer an entrée into the company, but a rehearsal makes clear that the force in a dancer's movements can land on another body.
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You Won't Be Alone (2022)

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You Won't Be Alone
Movie
6.4/10on IMDb
Released
Choose this for quiet, mournful folk horror. After accidentally killing a villager, a young witch takes the woman's shape. The borrowed bodies let her experience more of village life, while giving each new life a cost that lingers.
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Hellbender (2022)

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Hellbender
Movie
5.8/10on IMDb
Released
Sheltered teenager Izzy discovers an appetite for blood after an outing with other kids. The power it awakens makes her mother's old rules feel less arbitrary. The intimate scale makes the family story as unnerving as the occult one.
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Eve's Bayou (1997)

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Eve's Bayou
Movie
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
Choose this Louisiana family drama if you want to wonder whether a curse caused the harm or gave a child a way to explain it. Eve turns to a local fortune-teller after what she witnesses splits the adults around her. The story keeps asking what a frightened child can really know.
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