17 TV Shows and Movies to Watch If You're Maybe, Sort of a Little Bit Obsessed With Exorcisms

The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has traded in zombies for demons in this addictive drama, and it's no less horrifying. Almost Famous actor Patrick Fugit stars as Kyle Barnes, a West Virginia man looking for answers as to why the people around him have been plagued by possessions his entire life. With the help of the reverend in his local parish (Philip Glenister), Kyle takes on new terrors with each episode.

Where to watch: Friday nights on Cinemax

Based on a terrifyingly true story, The Haunting in Connecticut sees Sarah (Virginia Madsen) moving her family to a new home in Connecticut after her son, Matt (Kyle Gallner), is diagnosed with cancer. Matt quickly begins seeing paranormal activity in the house, prompting Sarah to reach out to a priest for help.

Where to watch: Amazon, iTunes

Taking place a few years after its predecessor, The Haunting of Molly Hartley, the film finds Molly (Sarah Lind) under the control of a malevolent spirit. A discouraged priest (played by '90s heartthrob Devon Sawa, naturally) agrees to help her before the devil takes her soul away completely.

Where to watch: Netflix, Amazon, iTunes

No list of exorcism movies would be complete without the OG possession thriller, The Exorcist. Ellen Burstyn does an excellent job as a mother terrified for her young, demonically possessed daughter, Regan (Linda Blair), and seeks out two priests to help save her. You'll never look at vomit the same way after seeing this 1973 film, trust us.

Where to watch: Netflix, Amazon, iTunes

Eric Bana ups the ante on terror in this 2014 horror flick as a NYC police officer investigating a series of crimes in the city that start to look more and more like cases of demonic possession. With the help of an unconventional priest (Édgar Ramirez), Bana's character eventually starts to accept that not everything is as it seems.

Where to watch: Amazon, iTunes

This series starring Geena Davis and Alfonso Herrera is based on the 1971 novel that also inspired the original movie, and follows two very different priests who are forced to work together to perform dangerous, disturbing exorcisms.

Where to watch: Coming to Fox this fall

Before heading out to see the sequel to The Conjuring this weekend, you need to rewatch the first installment for a thorough dose of spine-chilling fear. Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) investigate the strange behavior of a mother being terrorized by a dark presence in her New England home. If the violent ghosts aren't enough to have you covering your eyes, the fact that it's a true story just might be.

Where to watch: Amazon, iTunes

Two decades after Maria (Suzan Crowley) murdered three people who were performing an exorcism on her, her daughter Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) tries to discover the truth about the incident with the help of two exorcists (Simon Quarterman and Evan Helmuth). Can Isabella find out what really happened and save her mother from the four demons attached to her soul? Grab some popcorn and find out!

Where to watch: Amazon, iTunes

If you never want to sleep again, The Last Exorcism might be for you. Evangelical minister Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) has made a living off of staging fake exorcisms. After feeling a tidal wave of guilt, he agrees to let a film crew make a documentary about his final exorcism, exposing him for the fraud he truly is. It all goes to sh*t, of course, when the girl Cotton intends to exorcise ends up being truly possessed, and he comes face-to-face with the mother of all demons.

Where to watch: Amazon, iTunes

When a disgruntled, disheartened priest (Colin O'Donoghue) is forced to travel to the Vatican to take a course in exorcism, he balks at the idea that it could be real. However, after a chance meeting with veteran exorcist Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins) and a number of run-ins with the supernatural, he's forced to question life as he knows it.

Where to watch: Netflix, Amazon, iTunes

This documentary-style reality TV series is broken down into hour-long episodes that follow two separate stories of demonic possession. Told through the stages of possession — Infestation, Oppression, and full Possession — the show proves that possession can happen to anyone. If you believe in that stuff, of course.

Where to watch: Amazon, iTunes

Whether you're a fan of the original Amityville Horror or prefer the 2005 reboot (which we do) (see: Ryan Reynolds's abs), you're going to be majorly creeped out either way. Based on a 1977 book by Jay Anson, the films center around a family who chooses to move into a house where a grisly mass murder took place the year before. At first, everything seems to be going fine, until people start getting possessed and dogs start getting chopped up.

Where to watch: Amazon, iTunes

So there might not be any exorcisms in this campy '80s cult hit, but there's a reason it's gotten the remake treatment twice now. As a classic "cabin in the woods"-style horror movie, Evil Dead tracks the unfortunate events that happen after a group of five friends unknowingly release a group of flesh-possessing demons after reading text from an old book, the Necronomicon, out loud. One by one, each person is taken over by evil spirits, who prey on their victims in truly disturbing ways.

Where to watch: Amazon, iTunes

If this scarefest has been haunting your Netflix queue, it's time to bite the bullet and press play. This found-footage style horror movie centers around film student Mia (Michelle Ang), who's recording the daily routines of Sarah (Anne Ramsay) and her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother, Deborah (Jill Larson). While Deborah's symptoms initially appear to be standard conditions of Alzheimer's, she rapidly devolves into behaviors that are more consistent with possession. Jump scares and gore abound. You've been warned.

Where to watch: Netflix, Amazon, iTunes

After the head of his order mysteriously dies, a young priest (Heath Ledger) is sent to Italy to investigate it. He comes to discover a secret society existing within the Church, and eventually gets sucked into an important battle between good and evil. A little bit hokey? Yes. A good excuse to watch Heath Ledger? Also, yes.

Where to watch: Amazon, iTunes

Lawyer Erin Bruner (Laura Linney) is tasked with defending Reverend Moore (Tom Wilkinson), who has been charged with the death of a young girl, Emily (Jennifer Carpenter), whom he claims was demonically possessed. As prosecutor Ethan Thomas (Campbell Scott) argues that Emily was simply suffering from schizophrenia and should have been treated by medical professionals, the film shows flashbacks of what might have happened to Emily, and what actually did. As Erin gets deeper and deeper into the case, she unravels a story that can't be neatly packed away or explained by science.

Where to watch: Amazon, iTunes

A widowed, single mother regularly scams people during fake séances with the help of her two young daughters, but it all changes when they accidentally bring a real spirit into their home. The evil entity possesses the youngest daughter, and all hell breaks loose.

Where to watch: Catch it when it hits theaters on Oct. 21!