10 Unholy Horror Movies to Fill the Evil-Shaped Hole in Your Heart

Evil aired its last episode this week (probably), which means there’s obscurity to crook for your infusion of priests and nuns, shadowy Vatican operatives, Antichrist figures, sarcastic skeptics, and conniving Satanists getting successful each other’s mode arsenic they conflict the forces of bully and evil. Except, well, that’s not true! Those are much-loved themes successful movie and TV, and portion Evil did them successful its ain wonderfully quirky way, it did sometimes tread acquainted ground.

Here are 10 much places to turn, if you privation a interruption from re-watching Evil‘s 4 seasons connected Paramount+.

The Pope’s Exorcist

The timelines don’t rather adhd up—Russell Crowe’s irreverent Father Amorth, based connected the Pope’s real-life idiosyncratic exorcist, is simply a mid-1980s dude. But it’s inactive tempting to ideate him showing up to the Vatican 1 time and gathering the newest members of his team: Evil‘s Father Acosta (Mike Colter) and Dr. Bouchard (Katja Herbers). They’re recently arrived successful Rome, but they’re well-trained successful Amorth’s superior country of interest: chasing demons retired of humans and backmost to hell. Stream connected Netflix.

The Exorcist TV series

Obviously, The Exorcist movies are precise Evil-adjacent, but the Ben Daniels-led TV series, which ran for 2 seasons crossed 2016 and 2017, is besides an perfect companion piece. Imagine if Evil starred 2 priests alternatively of a trio of assessors (including 1 priest, of course), and followed a azygous lawsuit implicit a play alternatively than digging into a monster of the week, with the added intrigue of loosely tying into the movie franchise. Both shows are arsenic character-driven and some are genuinely scary. Stream connected Hulu.

Stigmata

In this 1999 release, Gabriel Byrne plays a Jesuit clergyman successful the concern of investigating and/or debunking miracles; the Vatican gets progressive erstwhile he’s drawn into the lawsuit of a pistillate (Patricia Arquette) who’s abruptly sprouted stigmata-like wounds, and is spewing mysterious phrases successful Aramaic. There’s a large conspiracy and cover-up, not dissimilar the frustratingly murky practices of Evil‘s Entity, who’d similar you did not notation to them arsenic the Vatican’s concealed service. Stream connected Tubi.

The Borderlands (also known arsenic Final Prayer)

The Borderlands, besides released nether the rubric Final Prayer, is simply a cut-above 2013 British found-footage movie astir a trio of men—a priest, a spiritual brother, and a techie (swap successful “psychologist” for “religious brother” and you person Evil‘s squad make-up)—who’re sent by the Vatican to analyse disturbing reports coming retired of an past church. Strange sounds, unusual occurrences, radical doing unusual things—you cognize it’s each starring up to something, but you’ll ne'er conjecture what happens successful its genuinely shocking last scenes. Stream connected Tubi.

Prince of Darkness

io9’s retro review of this John Carpenter classical highlighted however it contains “one of the astir disturbing depictions of evil ever,” and it besides has a crippled that wouldn’t beryllium excessively retired of spot connected Evil, arsenic a clergyman teams up with a physics prof and his students to survey what whitethorn precise good beryllium Satan successful liquid form. There are crippled holes and immoderate unhinged vigor afoot, but Prince of Darkness—stocked with a formed of Carpenter regulars, including Halloween’s Donald Pleasence—will haunt you each the same. Rent oregon bargain connected Prime Video.

Rosemary’s Baby

The Julia Garner-starring Rosemary’s Baby prequel, Apartment 7A, is coming to (where else?) Paramount+ soon, but if you’re already successful a Satanic babe temper acknowledgment to Evil‘s small Timothy, there’s nary amended spot to spell than the original. In 2024, Timothy was carried by a consenting surrogate, and created utilizing Kristen’s stolen ovum and the devil-worshiping sperm of her worst enemy. In 1968, Rosemary—assaulted by Satan, betrayed by her husband, creeped-upon by her coven of neighbors—gives commencement to the large anticipation of the forces of evil. Different Antichrist circumstances… but both, lest we forget, person their father’s eyes. Stream connected MGM+ oregon Paramount+.

The Omen

Speaking of Antichrist kids, you person to ideate Damien, for each his wealthiness and privilege, was a overmuch much troublesome babe than saccharine Timothy. Of course, Damien’s grandma didn’t take him to beryllium secretly baptized. Stream connected Hulu.

The First Omen

This year’s The First Omen proved that adjacent a astir 50-year-old fearfulness franchise inactive has stories worthy exploring. While we’ve known since 1976 however toddler Damien turned out, we’ve besides present witnessed the lead-up to that infamous baby-swap forced connected the Thorn family. It’s possibly the astir astonishing Antichrist communicative to date, adjacent taking Evil‘s ain chaotic communicative into account. Stream connected Hulu.

The Vatican Tapes

Michael Peña, Dougray Scott, and Djimon Hounsou prima successful this 2015 movie astir a young pistillate (Olivia Taylor Dudley) whose miraculous instrumentality from the brink of decease turns retired to be… demonic, oregon possibly adjacent tied to the Antichrist. Other than the Antichrist thing, its nexus to Evil is its fascination with Vatican’s immense archives chronicling cases of possession implicit the years. Stream connected Tubi.

When Evil Lurks

Sometimes, there’s nary explanation. There’s nary Satan, there’s nary Catholic Church, there’s nary Bible-toting clergyman with rituals to perform. Sometimes, evil conscionable makes itself spontaneously known, past starts pursuing you astir and ruining your beingness and the lives of everyone astir you. There’s a crushed When Evil Lurks topped galore “most scariest movie of the year” lists past year: it’ll get nether your tegument and enactment there. Stream connected AMC+ oregon Hulu.

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