Movies like The Return of the Exorcist: 20 to watch next
If you loved The Return of the Exorcist (1975) — a horror film directed by Franco Lo Cascio and Angelo Pannacciò — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of The Return of the Exorcist most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like exorcism and exorcist. 2 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Two Witches 2023★ 6.0
Shares: Horror
A matriarchal witch passes on her sinister inheritance to her grand-daughter, triggering the most horrific curses.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Saint Catherine 2024★ 6.3
Shares: Horror
An orphaned girl is rescued from a satanic ritual and taken to Saint Catherine Institute for homeless youth. There she will learn new skills while facing demons that stalk her.
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The Curse of Buckout Road 2017★ 6.6
Shares: Horror
A college class project on creation and destruction of modern myth, turns terrifying when a trio of young people come to realize the urban legends surrounding the famed Buckout Road may, in fact, be REAL.
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Black Sunday 1960★ 7.4
Shares: Horror
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
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City of the Living Dead 1980★ 6.5
Shares: Horror
A psychic seemingly dies of fright during a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery. New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates and learns that the priest's suicide has somehow opened a portal to Hell that must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity.
Stream in India on Plex
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The Cleansing Hour 2019★ 6.3
Shares: Horror
Two entrepreneurs stage elaborate fake exorcisms on social media until one of their girlfriends becomes possessed by a demon.
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God Is a Bullet 2023★ 6.3
Shares: Horror
Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.
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The Resurrected 1991★ 6.1
Shares: Horror
Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.
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Inferno 1980★ 6.6
Shares: Horror
A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
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The Exorcist 1973★ 7.8
Shares: Horror
When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
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Books of Blood 2020★ 6.2
Shares: Horror
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
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Play Dead 2025★ 6.3
Shares: Horror
A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.
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Whisper 2022★ 6.3
Shares: Horror
A young Nurse is assigned to look after a patient in a remote location in the English countryside. As the night continues she finds herself terrorized by an unseen force that is connected with her patient.
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Cheat 2023★ 7.1
Shares: Horror
On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek, Pennsylvania. But the town's unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing both locals and college students that everything is not as it seems. When Maeve - a female college student - sleeps with Charlie, the married man of the host family she is staying with, both sense the deadly curse is closing in on them. Unable to get anyone to believe them, Maeve and Charlie seek out a local history student to help find answers and figure out a way to defend themselves. It all comes undone, however, as several people are horrifically killed by the savage being - one-by-one at a rapid pace. Eventually, Maeve, Charlie and the few survivors band together in an attempt to defeat the monster once and for all.
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Hellraiser 1987★ 6.9
Shares: Horror
A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.
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Nightmare Cinema 2018★ 5.8
Shares: Horror
A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.
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Daylight's End 2016★ 5.8
Shares: Horror
Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.
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The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh 1971★ 6.8
Shares: Horror
When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently out of town, she falls into the arms of her friend's cousin George, and as the unknown assassin begins to make his move, she fears that one of the three men in her life may be the killer.
Stream in India on Tubi TV
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And Now the Screaming Starts! 1973★ 5.9
Shares: Horror
In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of the Fengriffen family. The young bride is victim of terrifying visions and apparitions, threatening her very sanity. A London psychiatrist comes to her help and uncovers the terrible secret that haunts the estate.
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Phantasm II 1988★ 6.2
Shares: Horror
Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become part of Mike's dreams, and they must find her before the Tall Man does.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now