Occult & Satanic Horror Movies of the 1970s
Occult horror deals with cults, covens and bargains with the devil. Grimy, daring and fearless, the decade of The Exorcist, Halloween and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Standouts from the 1970s include Damien - Omen II, The Sentinel and Blood on Satan's Claw.
Damien - Omen II (1978)
Rated 6.4 on TMDB
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school.
See where it’s streamingThe Sentinel (1977)
Rated 6.1 on TMDB
As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits.
See where it’s streamingBlood on Satan's Claw (1971)
Rated 6.2 on TMDB
After a landsman in 18th century England discovers a corpse covered in fur buried in a field, the town becomes infected by "the devil's skin," leading the local children to engage in demonic rituals…
See where it’s streamingBlack Magic (1975)
Rated 5.6 on TMDB
A magician makes money by charging people to cast love spells on the objects of their affection. Complications arise when he decides that he wants a customer's bride for himself.
See where it’s streamingRace with the Devil (1975)
Rated 6.4 on TMDB
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
See where it’s streamingSatanic Pandemonium (1975)
Rated 6.4 on TMDB
Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden…
See where it’s streamingDon't Deliver Us from Evil (1971)
Rated 6.6 on TMDB
Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan.
See where it’s streamingLook What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976)
Rated 3.5 on TMDB
Baby Adrian is now all grown up and separated from his mother, wrestling with the occult influences that plague him, and trying to outrun Satan himself.
See where it’s streamingTo the Devil a Daughter (1976)
Rated 5.4 on TMDB
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
See where it’s streamingTwins of Evil (1971)
Rated 6.7 on TMDB
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism.
See where it’s streamingLove Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977)
Rated 5.8 on TMDB
16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists.
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Rated 6.0 on TMDB
After a chance encounter with a mysterious couple claiming to be old friends, Andrés and Ana are invited to spend the evening at a beautiful, secluded old villa.
See where it’s streamingAlucarda (1977)
Rated 6.5 on TMDB
After the death of her parents, young Justine is sent to live in a convent, where she meets and falls in love with the mysterious and macabre Alucarda. However, Alucarda has friends in low places...
See where it’s streamingStranger in Our House (1979)
Rated 5.3 on TMDB
After a country family of five take in charming cousin Julie, whose parents recently died in a car crash, their teenage daughter Rachel grows to suspect that Julie has a sinister agenda.
See where it’s streamingThe Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)
Rated 5.8 on TMDB
When college professor, Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life, he's mysteriously drawn to a place he's never been to, but which seems familiar and where he soon finds his…
See where it’s streamingThe Possession of Joel Delaney (1972)
Rated 5.6 on TMDB
An upper-class Manhattan divorcee comes to believe that her brother is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer who beheaded young women in Spanish Harlem.
See where it’s streamingThe Devil's Men (1976)
Rated 4.1 on TMDB
A satanic cult led by Baron Corofax kidnaps three young people and Father Roche & Milo must save them from the hands of this evil.
See where it’s streamingThe Manitou (1978)
Rated 5.3 on TMDB
A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.
See where it’s streamingJ.D.'s Revenge (1976)
Rated 5.9 on TMDB
After notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is murdered in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist's supernatural nightclub act allows him to take over the…
See where it’s streamingVirgin Witch (1972)
Rated 4.5 on TMDB
A pair of mini-skirted birds travel to a remote castle in order to land a contract in the modelling agency of the mysterious lesbian Sybil Waite.
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