The The world The It's a typical dark, cold October night.

Adults come home from work, parents tuck their kids into bed.

Teenage sweethearts snuggle up to watch a scary movie.

People going about their regular everyday lives,

unaware of what could be happening all around them behind closed doors.

Elsewhere in their neighborhood, strange dark things are happening.

Rituals, black magic, satanic worship, people messing with dangerous forces far older and far greater

than anything they could comprehend.

What have you done to?

A moumeniac!

Much like folk horror, the term occult is incredibly broad. Movies about the occult can encompass a multitude of stories, themes, and ideas.

And perhaps that's why some of the greatest and most shocking movies in cinema fall under

this umbrella.

Look at me, Damien.

It's all for you.

Unlike folk horror,

a cult movies can be set anywhere from New York apartment blocks

to 16th century convents. And unlike slash or zombie or zombie movies,

and unlike slash-or-zombi movies,

occult movies aren't restricted to one type of monster. Victims in occult movies can

fall prey to witches.

Demons.

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