Ritual Movies

Pisces is an art film which explores ritual, identity, and transformation, drawing from Lovecraftian mythos, Chinese Folk ritual, Five Elemental...

“To begin a new chapter, you must close the last — even if it hurts to turn the page.” Savage Song is a poetic short film that...

A struggling You Tuber Bayden Redshaw and his brother Dylan John Redshaw and best friend Jordan Stopforth decide to do a YouTube video about a new...

Three American late teens travel to Japan to escape a sad past and have some fun but end up trapped in a house with a demented Japanese host family...

Filmed in May 1971 in Niger, this short documentary records a possession ritual performed by the Simiri people in response to a locust invasion. The...

An unnamed Priest, exiled in wilderness, struggles to rid himself of an ancient evil.

A local news crew become horribly involved with a doomsday cult.

For over 30 years, the so-called First Transmission video from Psychic TV, has been the stuff of, well, “snuff film” legend. First...

Siblings invite their friends to their inherited yet abandoned farmhouse only to become victims of a demonic ritual.

A young vlogger (Vithor), obsessed with gaining fame by exploiting supernatural beliefs, must confront a fierce Board Demon he awakened. He is forced...

A ritual shot on black and white Super 8 film. A witch summons various goddesses and mythological figures until the Queen of women shunned by...

Lyrical tragicomedy. The eyes of the young hero, who will go through the rite of circumcision, shows the life of a Kyrgyz village on a holiday day.

When a recent widow moves to New Zealand from India, she's forced to confront her grief by completing an ordinary ritual in an extraordinary...

A withdrawn teenage girl forms a close bond with a mysterious newcomer, slowly becoming entangled in a tight-knit community where belonging, trust,...

A reverberating blur of bodies and fire conjures forth representation of the potent and intoxicating Southern English folk custom of the flaming tar...

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance.

Set during the final ten minutes before an eighteenth birthday, the film follows a young protagonist on the threshold between childhood and...

A collection of videos that spotlight all kinds of terror "tragedies", not limited to psychic phenomena such as fights, violence, and passing by. It...

Willing to do anything to get their friend back from the dead, three idiots turn to dark magic. However, one large obstacle lies in the way: they...

A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the...