religious fanaticism
16 movies and shows

The Mist
Wed, 21 Feb 2007
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

Silent Hill
Fri, 21 Apr 2006
Rose, a desperate mother takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins a desperate search to get her back. She descends into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.

Alice, Sweet Alice
Sat, 13 Nov 1976
Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Thu, 09 Sep 2021
An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British television in the seventies and its many manifestations, culturally specific, in other countries; to its resurgence in the last decade.

Hail Satan?
Wed, 17 Apr 2019
The story of The Satanic Temple, a controversial movement that combines religion and activism with the apparent purpose of questioning the basic foundations of US society.

What Josiah Saw
Fri, 13 Aug 2021
A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.

I Wish You All the Best
Tue, 12 Mar 2024
A non-binary teen is kicked out of their North Carolina home after coming out to their ultra-religious parents. As a result, they move in with their estranged sister and her husband. Though the two are welcoming, they continue to struggle with anxiety further exacerbated by their parents' rejection. As such, they try to keep a low profile at school. However, after they meet a proudly bisexual classmate, their life begins to look a little more hopeful.

The Fiend
Sun, 30 Apr 1972
Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!

Outsiders
Wed, 01 Jun 1977
The Ceddo people try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade. When King Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo kidnap his daughter, Princess Dior Yacine, to protest their forcible conversion to Islam.

Disco
Fri, 20 Sep 2019
On the surface 19-year-old Mirjam's life appears perfect. She is a world champion freestyle disco dancer and the pride of her modern, evangelical church. Yet her body is calling out for help and at the dance world championships, where she is defending her title, she collapses on stage. Her family's solution is for her to focus more on her faith. In search of answers, she turns to a stricter, more conservative church.

Age of Silence
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Two young adults learn about love in a post-apocalyptic world where distance must be kept to survive the plague that killed humanity.

AIDS: The Judgment of God
Mon, 22 Dec 2014
Small town pastor Steven starts a journey of discovery when he meets sultry country boy Michael. Soon, Steven begins to question it all as he and Michael careen toward ecstasy and danger.

Wieland
Mon, 19 Feb 2024
Religious fanaticism, schizophrenia, supernatural powers and repressed sexual desire combine into a deadly family drama.

The New York Centerfold Massacre
Wed, 21 Aug 1985
Aspiring models in a Soho photo studio, aiming for the centerfold, are getting molested, tortured and killed by a mysterious perpetrator, who hides its identity by wearing a cloth bag over its head.

Marvel & DC's War on God: The Antichrist Agenda
Fri, 04 Mar 2022
Marvel and DC's War on God: The Antichrist Agenda is part 1 in a series exposing how popular comics, movies, and TV shows are riddled with anti-Christ themes glorifying violence, sexual perversion, blasphemy, and the occult.

L'Angelo
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A devotee religious goes on a killing spree after finding out something horrible about his wife.