The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
AKA The Conjuring 3
(2021) 112 min
Rated: R (blood, gore)
Country: USA
Director: Michael Chaves
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ruairi O’Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook, Julian Hilliard
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★☆☆

The Conjuring 3

The Warrens encounter a case of demonic possession that leads to murder.

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Spirits of the Dead (1968)

Spirits of the Dead A.K.A Tales of Mystery
A.K.A. Histoires extraordinaires A.K.A. Tre passi nel delirio
(1968) 121 min
Rated: R (Blood, Nudity)
Country: France | Italy
Director: Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini
Starring: Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Peter Fonda, Terence Stamp
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★☆☆

Spirits of the Dead

Three horror stories based on works by Edgar Allen Poe.

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The Brainiac (1962)

The Brainiac A.K.A. El Barón del Terror
(1962) 77 min
Rated: NR (mild violence)
Country: Mexico
Director: Chano Urueta
Starring: Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter, David Silva, Ruben Rojo
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆

The Brainiac

An evil man rides a comet and lands in 1961 to kill the descendants of his prosecutors.

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Night of the Demon (1957)

Night of the Demon A.K.A. Curse of the Demon
(1957) 96 min
Rated: NR
Country: UK
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Starring: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★☆☆

Curse of the Demon

An American skeptic is cursed by the English leader of a devil-worshiping cult.

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Orozco the Embalmer (2001)

Orozco the Embalmer AKA
Orozco el embalsamador
(2001) 91 min
Rated: NA (Real murdered corpses, real embalming corpses, nudity, drug use)
Country: Japan
Director: Kiyotaka Tsurisaki
Starring: Froilan Orozco
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★★☆

Orozco the Embalmer

A documentary about an embalmer’s work in one of the poorest and most dangerous parts of Bogotá in 1990’s Colombia.

Warning: Descriptions of real embalming as it is the subject of this documentary. I have attempted to leave out photos with bodies and gore for this summary and review.

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The Night Eats the World (2018)

The Night Eats the World AKA
La nuit a dévoré le monde
(2018) 93 min
Rated: TV-14 (Gore, implied cat death)
Country: France
Director: Dominique Rocher
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavant
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★☆☆

The Night Eats The World

A man falls asleep and awakes to find the world has been taken over by zombies.
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Possessor (2020)

Possessor
(2020) 103 min
Rated: R (Extreme gore, explicit sex and nudity)
Country: Canada
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rossif Sutherland, Sean Bean
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★★★

Possessor

An assassin possesses people to complete job contracts.

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Midsommar (2019)

Midsommar
(2019) 147 min | 171 min (Director’s Cut)
Rated: R (gore, nudity, sex)
Country: USA | Sweden
Director: Ari Aster
Starring: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, and Will Poulter.
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★★★

Midsommar

Several young Americans take a trip to a secluded village in Sweden to witness their traditional 90-year summer festival.

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