20 Outstanding Scary Witch Movies
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20 Outstanding Scary Witch Movies

We have prepared a great list that includes the best witch movies of all time.

We handpicked those movies by considering popularity, cast performances, and IMDb ratings of films. The historical significance and reviews of cinema professionals are also considered. All the films are horror-theme scary witch movies.

As usual, we will make some introduction about witchcraft and witches.

 

 

Witchcraft and Witches

Witchcraft is generally called the practice of people who are believed to have supernatural powers and use these powers for their own benefit. They are depicted badly in many religions and mythical narratives. Belief in witchcraft often takes place in communities and groups which have a magical worldview in their cultural framework. The concepts of witchcraft and witches have undergone semantic transformations over time. Therefore, it is difficult to define the witchcraft and witches.

Among the supernatural practices that are generally believed to be made by witches are spell casting, necromancy, and cursing. Some argue that witchcraft is differentiated from wizardry in a sense that the former is associated with demonic applications and satanic cults. In Islam and Christianity, wizardry is also associated with heresy, apostasy and satanic actions.

Contrary to all the alleged statements, there is something we know for sure. Control of lone women in the community with witchcraft accusations (!).

 

Suspiria (2018) is a horror-art movie about witches and witchcraft.

 

The List of Witch Movies

Here are the best witch movies that depicts stories about witchery and witches.You will see the very finest movies about witch and witches.

 

 

Bonus: American Horror Story Coven

American Horror Story (AHS) is a horror anthology TV series. The third season of AHS is about witches and narrates the story with witches in Salem. You will also see bunch of voodoo and other supernatural cults.

 


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Suspiria (2018)

A horror art witch re-make movie of Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977). The film is directed by Luca Guadagnino and stars Dakota Johnson (Susie Bannion), Tilda Swinton (Madame Blanc), Mia Goth (Sara Simms).

 

Susie Bannion, a young American woman who visited Berlin in 1977, when one of his members, the Patricia, was missing under mysterious circumstances, visited the prestigious Markos Tanz Company. As Susie makes extraordinary progress under the guidance of Madame Blanc, the Company's revolutionary artistic director, she befriends another dancer, Sara, who shares her suspicions that the Matrons, and the Company itself, may be harboring a dark and menacing secret.

 

2018

6.8/10

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Day of Wrath (1943)

An old woman is accused of witchcraft in a Danish village of the 17th century. In the shadow of her flight, capture, confession, and burning at the stake, the young wife of the town's aging pastor falls in love with the pastor's son. Her confession to her husband of this illegitimate adultery is the death of her husband.

1943

8/10

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Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into an apartment in an opulent but gothic Manhattan building. Their landlord Edward "Hutch" Hutchins is trying to dissuade them from doing so: the building has an unsavory history. They discover that their neighbors are a very friendly elderly couple named Roman and Minnie Castevet, and Guy begins to spend a great deal of time with them.

1968

8/10

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Hereditary (2018)

Ari Aster's mystery horror movie is one of the best witch movies of the contemporary era. The film stars Toni Collette (Annie Graham), Alex Wolff (Peter Graham), Gabriel Byrne (Steve Graham), Ann Dowd (Joan).

 

Annie Graham and her husband Steve live in Utah with her thirteen-year-old son Peter and Charlie, an excentric and reserved 13-year-old daughter. At the funeral of her secretive mother, Ellen Leigh, Annie delivers a eulogy explaining their fraught relationship and her mother's extremely private life.

2018

7.3/10

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Thelma (2017)

A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.

2017

7/10

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The Devils (1971)

Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek to take control of seventeenth-century France, but need to destroy Father Grandier - the priest who runs the fortified town that prevents them from exerting total control. So they seek to destroy him by setting him up as a warlock in control of a devil-possessed nunnery, the mother superior of which is sexually obsessed by him. A mad witch-hunter is brought in to gather evidence against the p...

1971

7.8/10

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Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)

Part history lesson followed by re-enactments with actors, this film takes depicts the history of witchcraft from its earliest days through to the present day (in this case,1922 or thereabouts). The result is a documentary-like film that must be among the first to use re-enactments as a visual and narrative tool. From pagan worship to satanic rites to hysteria, the film takes you on a journey through the ages with highly effective visual sequence...

1922

7.7/10

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The Magician (1958)

When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his cr...

1958

7.7/10

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Hour of the Wolf (1968)

An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful memories.

1968

7.7/10

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Carrie (1976)

Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.

1976

7.4/10

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Black Sunday (1960)

In the Seventeenth Century, in Maldavia, Princess Asa Vajda and her lover Javutich (Arturo Dominici) are killed by the local population, accused of witchcraft. A mask of Satan is attached to their faces. Princess Asa curses her brother, promising revenge to his descents. The body of Javutich is buried outside the cemetery, and the coffin of Princess Asa is placed in the family's tomb with a cross over it for protection. Two hundred years later, P...

1960

7.3/10

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November (2017)

In a Medieval Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

2017

7.2/10

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Kill, Baby, Kill (1966)

Dr. Eswai is called by Inspector Kruger to a small village to perform an autopsy on a woman who has died under suspicious circumstances. Despite help from Ruth, the village witch, Kruger is killed and it is revealed that the dead woman, as well as other villagers, have been killed by the ghost of Melissa, a young girl who, fed by the hatred of her grieving mother, Baroness Graps, exacts her revenge on them. Dr. Eswai, along with Monica, a local n...

1966

7.1/10

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Burn, Witch, Burn

A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put off by her insistence that his professional rivals are working magic against him, and her protections are necessary to his career and life.

1962

7/10

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I Am Not a Witch (2017)

Convicted of witchcraft, 8-year-old Shula is brought to live in a penal colony where witches do hard labor in service of the government.

2017

6.9/10

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The Crucible (1996)

A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others' land and one young woman infatuated with a married man and determined to get rid of his innoce...

1996

6.8/10

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The Witches (1990)

A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid England of all children.

1990

6.8/10

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The Witch (2015)

New England, 1630: William and Katherine try to lead a devout Christian life, homesteading on the edge of an impassible wilderness, with five children. When their newborn son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to turn on one another. 'The Witch' is a chilling portrait of a family unraveling within their own sins, leaving them prey for an inescapable evil.

2015

6.8/10

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In Fabric (2019)

A haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store, following the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.

2019

6.4/10

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The Neon Demon (2016)

The sixteen year-old aspiring model Jesse arrives in Los Angeles expecting to be a successful model. The aspirant photographer Dean takes photos for her portfolio and dates her. Jesse befriends the lesbian makeup artist Ruby and then the envious models Gigi and Sarah in a party. Meanwhile the agency considers Jesse beautiful with a "thing" that makes her different and she is sent to the professional photographer Jack. Jesse attracts he attention ...

2016

6.2/10

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