Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
Everyone has a skeleton or two in his or her closet, but what about the director behind some of the most successful thrillers ever to hit the silver screen? Could M. Night Shyamalan be hiding a deep, dark secret that drives his macabre cinematic vision? Now viewers will be able to find out firsthand what fuels The Sixth Sense director's seemingly supernatural creativity as filmmakers interview Shyamalan as well as the cast and crew members who have worked most closely with him over the years. Discover the early events that shaped the mind of a future master of suspense in a documentary that is as fascinating as it is revealing.
Der gutaussehende High School Student Akemi ist ein Computergenie. Eines Tages kommt ein neues Mädchen namens Yumiko in seine Klasse. Sie verliebt sich schnell in Akemi, aber dieser ist so vertieft in seinen Computer, dass er Yumiko keinerlei Beachtung schenkt. Der Grund dafür ist ein Monster, das er mit seinem Computer geschaffen hat. Digital Devil wurde zu seinem eigenen bösen Geist, den Akemi nach der Schule ruft, sodass dieser Rache an seinen Feinden nimmt.
Eine Erkundung der Filmgeschichte des Folk-Horrors, von seinen Anfängen im Vereinigten Königreich in den späten sechziger Jahren über seine Verbreitung im britischen Fernsehen in den siebziger Jahren und seine zahlreichen, kulturell spezifischen Erscheinungsformen in anderen Ländern bis hin zu seinem Wiederaufleben im letzten Jahrzehnt.
Dalia and her two young sisters grow up in a pagan apocalyptic cult led by an ancient Baltic goddess of death and reincarnation. On the night of an important cult ritual, a police raid rescues Dalia as cult members flee with her two sisters. Years later, as the guilt eats away at her, Dalia finds a potential link to the cult through a prominent and despised black metal artist sequestered in the woods. Dalia journeys to find her sisters but her quest for the truth becomes a descent into Hell.
The story of how the Satanic Panic of the 1980s was ignited by "Michelle Remembers", a memoir by psychiatrist and his patient. The book relied on recovered-memory therapy to uncover Michelle's abduction by baby-stealing Satanists.
This documentary examines how Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime made use of ancient mysticism, occultism, and mind-control techniques in their efforts to win the war.
In Louisiana, in the wicked Whateley House, Lavina delivers two babies whose fate is written. Ten years later, three scholars of the occult discover that one page of the “Necronomicon,” the unspeakable book, is missing and the Black Brotherhood has summoned the ancient gate keeper to free legions of evil gods and monsters from the dimension of chaos.
Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have deciphered a secret code hidden in legendary playwright William Shakespeare's works that reveals a map leading to the location of certain treasures. British Shakespearean scholar Robert Crumpton embarks on a mission to prove he is spectacularly wrong. (A remake of “Shakespeare: The Hidden Truth,” including new discoveries.)
Orientiert am damaligen Erfolg Erich von Dänikens, zeigt der Film im reißerischen Gestus parapsychologische und okkulte Phänomene, Wunderheilungen und Exorzismen, Operationen unter Hypnose ohne Anästhesie, telekinetische Bewegungen von Gegenständen, Levitation und andere Phänomene aus der Welt des Unerklärlichen. Der Film behauptet eine wissenschaftliche Grundhaltung für sich, was durch den sensationalistischen Tonfall allerdings konterkariert wird.
A psychiatrist investigates the death of one of his patients, a young heiress.
Four friends set out to a remote getaway in Texas, unaware that it is being occupied by a sinister cult.
A “Dark Web” thumb drive reveals footage of three American filmmakers in rural Quebec researching a historic child murder case. After witnessing several disturbing paranormal occurrences, they attempt to communicate with the spirit of the child.
Was the legendary playwright William Shakespeare really the author of his acclaimed plays? Or was he just a straw man working for a secret society? Norwegian organist and researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have a solid theory on the subject. Shakespearean scholar Robert Crumpton decides to travel to Norway to meet him.
"The Man We Want to Hang" is a 12-minute short, consisting of Anger filming borrowed paintings done by legendary and controversial occultist Aleister Crowley.
A man travels from Alabama to Scotland to investigate the bizarre circumstances surrounding his friend's death.
House of the Wickedest Man in the World is the story of a ruined building near the city of Cefalú in Sicily. In the early 1920s, Aleister Crowley, the most famous occultist of his time, lived in the building, practicing magical rituals. In the summer of 1955, Kenneth Anger, considered one of the pioneers of experimental cinema, traveled with sexologist Alfred Kinsey to Sicily to find Aleister Crowley’s temple to shoot a film about the occultist’s time in Cefalú. The Thelema Abbey film was never released.
Murcia, Spain, 2016. An eccentric and humorous journey, on the shoulders of ironic giants, in the search of the most enigmatic places of this Spanish region: considering different hypotheses, the possibility of the existence of pyramidal structures is investigated, crossing sometimes the border of the chimerical and exploring beyond the limits that were previously considered impassable.
"I am a hardcore racist, sadist and fascist. The New Testament is true, the Old Testament is not. Spirits informed me that I will be born again in my next life in the United States, then as president." - Pekka Siitoin (1944 - 2003) was an occultist and a neo-Nazi from Naantali, Finland. In his youth he studied at the Theatre Academy of Finland and was a disciple of Finland's best known clairvoyant, Aino Kassinen. In the 1970s he became a neo-Nazi and founded several organizations. He saw himself as the leader of the Finnish Nazi movement but got at most a few dozen supporters. Siitoin also wrote books about politics and occultism.