For the perfect scares revolving around religious horror, several movies go the extra mile in their filmmaking. Apostle (2018) This Netflix Original Is A Surprise Streaming Hit .

The movie's grody atmosphere is the opposite of the sort of elegance certain religious horror movies possess; it's often easier to watch exorcisms happen in gold-clad Roman churches by well ...

While American-made religious horror often focuses on Christian traditions and beliefs by default—as TIME film critic Stephanie Zacharek wrote in her Immaculate review, "the lore of Catholicism ...

Now, without further ado, here are the top 10 greatest Christian-themed horror movies of all time! I present them here in order, starting with the #1 best and counting down the entire top 10.

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This is the 1988 “The Unholy,” not the 2021 one, which is also a religious horror movie. A lot of the same ingredients are in this one. You know, a Catholic priest, demons, the works.

In the new horror movie, “Heretic,” Hugh Grant plays a diabolical religious skeptic who traps two scared missionaries in his house and tries to violently shake ...

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Take William Friedkin’s 1973 horror classic “The Exorcist.” ... “Silence,” like Scorsese’s two other religious films — “The Last Temptation of Christ” (1988) ...