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1. The Menu (2022)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Director: Mark Mylod | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau
Votes: 395,204 | Gross: $38.50M
2. Carnival Row (2019–2023)
TV-MA | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A human detective and a fairy rekindle a dangerous affair in a Victorian fantasy world, where the city's uneasy peace collapses when a string of murders reveals an unimaginable monster.
Stars: Orlando Bloom, Cara Delevingne, Simon McBurney, Tamzin Merchant
Votes: 82,571
3. The Invitation (I) (2015)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When a man accepts an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife, the unsettling past reopens old wounds and creates new tensions.
Director: Karyn Kusama | Stars: Logan Marshall-Green, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Michiel Huisman, Tammy Blanchard
Votes: 119,338 | Gross: $0.23M
4. The Lodge (2019)
R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.
Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Richard Armitage
Votes: 58,052
5. Children of the Corn (1984)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believes that everyone over age 18 must be killed.
Director: Fritz Kiersch | Stars: Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R.G. Armstrong, John Franklin
Votes: 57,454 | Gross: $14.57M
6. The Omega Man (1971)
PG | 98 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Dr Robert Neville has developed an experimental vaccine which makes him the only immune survivor of a biological catastrophe. A gang of homicidal mutants blame science for their condition and attempt to kill him.
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo
Votes: 34,121 | Gross: $8.72M
7. Death Stranding (2019 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
Deliveryman Sam Porter must travel across a ravaged wasteland and reconnect the city states of America formed after a mysterious apocalyptic event dubbed 'death stranding' left the world in ruins and plagued by supernatural tar creatures.
Director: Hideo Kojima | Stars: Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux, Troy Baker
Votes: 11,191
8. The Art of Self-Defense (2019)
R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After being attacked on the street, a young man enlists at a local dojo, led by a charismatic and mysterious sensei, in an effort to learn how to defend himself from future threats.
Director: Riley Stearns | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola, Imogen Poots, Steve Terada
Votes: 40,997 | Gross: $2.41M
9. Horizon Zero Dawn (2017 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a primitive tribal world where strange, monstrous, animalistic machines roam the wilderness, a brave young female warrior goes on a quest to learn the truth about her mysterious origin and the state the world is in.
Director: Mathijs de Jonge | Stars: Ashly Burch, Laura van Tol, Ava Potter, JB Blanc
Votes: 18,737
10. Starry Eyes (2014)
Not Rated | 98 min | Horror, Mystery
A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.
Directors: Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer | Stars: Alexandra Essoe, Amanda Fuller, Noah Segan, Fabianne Therese
Votes: 22,387
11. Far Cry 5 (2018 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Crime
A deputy is sent to the town of Hope County to arrest Joseph Seed, a corrupt evangelical religious leader who rules the town with the help of his disturbed followers.
Director: Patrick Methe | Stars: Greg Bryk, Mark Pellegrino, Seamus Dever, Jenessa Grant
Votes: 9,115
12. The Believers (1987)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Cal Jamison, a police psychologist, is forced to deal with a series of ritualistic murders and a malevolent cult.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Martin Sheen, Helen Shaver, Harley Cross, Robert Loggia
Votes: 8,131 | Gross: $18.75M
13. Compulsion (2016)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After a fight with her boyfriend, a successful female erotic novelist on a book tour of Europe joins her ex and his female friend, with whom she falls madly in love, for a party at a castle owned by a dangerous cult.
Director: Craig Goodwill | Stars: Lio Tipton, Marta Gastini, Jakob Cedergren, Valentin Merlet
Votes: 1,803
14. The Chosen (1977)
R | 105 min | Horror
Robert's in charge of constructing a nuclear power plant in the Middle East. Will it be instrumental in prophecies of antichrist's apocalypse?
Director: Alberto De Martino | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Simon Ward, Agostina Belli, Anthony Quayle
Votes: 1,612
15. Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018)
TV-14 | 91 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Humanity, their alien allies, and Godzilla all enter their endgame as the powerful destructive entity known as Ghidorah arrives on Earth.
Directors: Hiroyuki Seshita, Kôbun Shizuno | Stars: Mamoru Miyano, Takahiro Sakurai, Kana Hanazawa, Tomokazu Sugita
Votes: 4,934
16. Heaven's Gate (2020)
TV-MA | 52 min | Documentary, Crime
A comprehensive analysis of the UFO cult. The disappearance of 20 people, and the largest suicide on U.S. soil. Forever changing the face of modern era religion.
Stars: Janja Lalich, Benjamin Zeller, Robert Balch, Kelly Cooke
Votes: 3,047
17. The Deceivers (1988)
PG-13 | 102 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Fact-based account of a secret society of murderers, and of the man who exposed them in British India 1825.
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Kapoor, Helena Michell
Votes: 1,276 | Gross: $0.35M
18. Specters (1987)
Unrated | 90 min | Horror
A US professor of archaeology and his young research team uncover a sealed ancient pagan tomb under the mausoleum of the real life Roman Emperor Domitian. This unleashes an evil deity that starts haunting people involved with the dig.
Director: Marcello Avallone | Stars: John R. Pepper, Trine Michelsen, Donald Pleasence, Massimo De Rossi
Votes: 486
19. Mansion of the Living Dead (1982)
93 min | Horror
A group of vacationing waitresses visit a resort hotel on the Canary Islands, only to find that the former monastery's monks nearby have returned as living blind dead.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Antonio Mayans, Mabel Escaño, Albino Graziani
Votes: 812
20. Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss (2018)
Unrated | 98 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A small-town couple finds the perfect apartment in the big city, except there's one catch: the apartment is home to the ritualistic suicides of a deranged cult.
Director: Vivieno Caldinelli | Stars: Rhea Seehorn, Taika Waititi, Sam Huntington, Kate Micucci
Votes: 1,289
21. Maniac Killer (1987)
84 min | Horror
A murderous cult kidnaps French prostitutes and tortures them to death to "purify" them of their evil ways. The local pimps set out after them, as does a man whose girlfriend was kidnapped by the cult and may still be held by them.
Director: Andrea Bianchi | Stars: Bo Svenson, Chuck Connors, Robert Ginty, Suzanne Andrews
Votes: 296
22. The Wrath of Vajra (2013)
Not Rated | 111 min | Action, Fantasy
Before the West entered World War II, a Japanese death cult called the Temple of Hades is ordered to aid in the spiritual destruction of China. Their method - abduct their enemies' children... See full summary »
Director: Wing-Cheong Law | Stars: Xing Yu, Yoo Seung-jun, Nam Heon-jun, Baocheng Jiang
Votes: 1,783
23. Murder University (2012)
96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A series of brutal, cult-like murders are taking place at a New England college. Josh Greene, a shy freshman, is the lone survivor of a series of murders that are reminiscent of a similar ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Griffin | Stars: Samantha Acampora, David Adams Murphy, Dave Almeida, Thib Alqahtani
Votes: 309
24. Camping Fun (2020)
Not Rated | 13 min | Short, Crime, Horror
Four friends set out to a remote getaway in Texas, unaware that they are being trailed by a sinister cult.
Directors: Thomas Burke, David Eimer | Stars: Hailey Marmolejo, Bonnie Sturdivant, Thomas Burke, David Eimer
Votes: 55
25. Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2006 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
An investigation leads the most famous detective of all time to the edge of the irrational as he thwarts the designs of a sect of the disciples of Cthulhu.
Stars: Rick Simmonds, David Riley, Andy Hoyle, Andy Turvey
Votes: 160
26. Hardline (1996 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Romance
In 1998 futuristic Detroit, a deadly terrorist techno cult known as The Sect is targeting civilians. The government is fighting them but their numbers are growing. A pilot with a mysterious past is key to ending their reign of terror.
Directors: Gregoire Glachant, Dominic Mathieu | Stars: David Gregg, Rochelle Redfield, David Gasman, Joseph Rezwin
Votes: 12
27. Vaudou (1973)
100 min | Documentary
It was from Dahomey (now Benin, Africa) that the cult of the deads was exported - through the slave trade - to Brazil, and Haiti. The film narrates the modern story of this ethnographical, ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Luc Magneron
Votes: 17
28. The Birthday Banquet (Overture) (2022)
7 min | Short, Horror, Thriller
In a nameless Chinese town, a rural parade escorts a family on a dark country road. Birthday cake and death knell blend into one, and the border between celebration and funeral vanishes: ... See full summary »
Director: Hongbo Cai | Stars: Wenjin Cai, Kerun Chen, Jindong Hong
29. White Gold: War in Paradise (2008 Video Game)
Action, Adventure, Crime
First person shooter with RPG elements about Saul Myers, a tough mercenary hired to investigate which of the factions in a war-torn Caribbean region is producing poisoned cocaine that's been killing celebrities around the world.
30.
Lexx (1996–2002)
Episode:
I Worship His Shadow
(1996)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The reincarnation of The Divine Shadow is flawed. A series of events unfold, that cause the destruction of the Shadow's power and allow a group of accidental rebels to steal the most powerful weapon in the Universes, the Starship Lexx.
Director: Paul Donovan | Stars: Brian Downey, Eva Habermann, Michael McManus, Jeffrey Hirschfield
Votes: 544
31.
The A-Team (1983–1987)
Episode:
Children of Jamestown
(1983)
TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The A-team rescues a girl from a cult and then takes on the cult leader to save others and get back Hannibal's boots.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II | Stars: George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Melinda Culea, Dwight Schultz
Votes: 582
32.
Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997–1998)
Episode:
Halloween
(1997)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Hammer's new girlfriend is brutally murdered on Halloween. It appears that a satanic cult leader who's doing time for other murders is behind it. But Hammer knows it's never that simple.
Director: Jonathan Winfrey | Stars: Stacy Keach, Shane Conrad, Shannon Whirry, Kent Williams
Votes: 43
33.
Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode:
Beauty Rest
(1992)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Lie's not been easy for actress, Helen. She's getting older and her dreams of hitting the big time are disappearing. When she gets a chance to take part in a beauty contest, she's determined to do ANYTHING to win.
Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Mimi Rogers, Jennifer Rubin, Kathy Ireland, Buck Henry
Votes: 849
34.
Dead at 21 (1994)
Episode:
Hotel California
(1994)
Action, Adventure, Crime
Ed seeks the wisdom of Cali, a mysterious 35-year-old polygamist sib.
Director: Ralph Hemecker | Stars: Jack Noseworthy, Lisa Dean Ryan, Whip Hubley, Richard Tyson
35.
The Buck Sexton Show (2017– )
Trump's Twitter War Escalates
(2020 Podcast Episode)
News
Stars: Buck Sexton, Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz, Jesse Kelly
36.
Space Cobra (1982–1983)
Episode:
Abayo! Ore no Cobra
(1983)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Cobra must stop powerful 3000-years-old shape-shifting Salamander and his cult of space Neo-Nazis tied to the Pirate Guild from using thousands of Shido Goddess planet orbiting statues to take over the galaxy.
Directors: Osamu Dezaki, Yoshio Takeuchi | Stars: Minako Arakawa, Shôzô Hirabayashi, Hideyuki Hori, Minoru Inaba
Votes: 38
37.
Creepshow (2019– )
Episode:
A Creepshow Animated Special: Survivor Type/Twittering from the Circus of the Dead
(2020)
TV-MA | 46 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A man is determined to stay alive alone on a deserted island no matter what the cost; A teen's family road trip includes a visit to the gravest show on earth.
Director: Greg Nicotero | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Joey King, Fayna Sanchez, Mason Pike
Votes: 801
38.
Robot Chicken (2001–2022)
Episode:
May Cause Weebles to Fall Down
(2022)
TV-MA | 11 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Once again it's time for Discovery's Mark Week courtesy of Robot Chicken; nobody realizes Daria is being sarcastic until it's too late; the Wayne family's Murder Alley gets commercialized and Bruce is mad.
Director: Tom Sheppard | Stars: Seth Green, Johnny Doran, Larry Herron, Madison Hu
Votes: 44
39.
Ripper Street (2012–2016)
Episode:
A Stronger Loving World
(2013)
TV-MA | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Reid must act quickly to prevent a religious war in Whitechapel when a series of arson attacks on churches and synagogues occurs in the district, all of which seems to be linked to Drake's wife, Bella, and a figure from her past.
Director: Kieron Hawkes | Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring
Votes: 425
40.
Ron Paul Liberty Institute (2015– )
Did Hunter Bring Coke to the White House??
(2023 Podcast Episode)
News
Stars: Ron Paul, Daniel McAdams
41.
Twitter Spaces: Mario Nawfal (2023– )
LIVE WITH ALEX JONES: DEBUT ON X w/ @RealAlexJones
(2023 Podcast Episode)
Talk-Show
Stars: Mario Nawfal, Alex Jones, Ed Krassenstein, Laura Loomer
42.
Hawaii Five-0 (2010–2020)
Episode:
Ka hale ho 'okauweli
(2016)
TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama
On Halloween, Five-0 investigates the murder of a medium with a checkered past who was apparently scared to death by a poltergeist. Also, Kono and Adam are kidnapped by what appears to be a death cult.
Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim, Grace Park
Votes: 481
43.
The Styxhexenhammer666 Channel (2010– )
Episode:
Transhumanism Is Dumb: Here's Why
(2017)
16 min | News
Transhumanists are vainly hoping for immortality, says Styx.
Star: Styxhexenhammer666