When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
Rouz gyvena tarsi košmare – jos vienintelė dukrelė Šeronsunkiai serga. Medikai jai negali pasiūlyti jokių viltį teikiančių gydymo būdų. Nusivylusi motina griebiasi bet ko, kas gali pagelbėti jos vargšui kūdikiui. Rouz su dukrele išsiruošia į kelionę, tačiau kažkokiu būdu net nepajutusios kerta portalą į kitokį pasaulį. Kitoje portalo pusėje jos išnyra keistame ištuštėjusiame ir šiurpą keliančiame Tyliosios kalvos miestelyje.
Veiksmas vyksta 1666 metais Masačiūsetso įlankos baltųjų kolonijoje. Čia vyrauja puritoniškos vertybės, todėl naujoji atvykėlė Hester sutinkama gana įtariai. Jauna moteris greitai įsilieja į kolonijos gyvenimą ir, įsikūrusi atokioje fermoje, laukia atvykstančio vyro. Tačiau ji jaučia nenumaldomą aistrą jaunam kunigui Artūrui Dimesdeilui. Ir šis neabejingas jaunai gražuolei. Sužinoję, kad Hester vyras greičiausiai žuvo kelionėje per vandenyną, jiedu sutvirtina savo meilę, iš kurios gimsta kūdikis. Tuo metu kolonijoje pasirodo Hester vyras Čilingvortas, praleidęs metus indėnų nelaisvėje. Jis ima keršyti neištikimai žmonai ir, apkaltinęs ją raganavimu, įkiša į kalėjimą. Tačiau meilė nugali viską, ir Hester pasiryžusi paaukoti dėl jos net savo gyvybę.
19 amžiaus Makedonijoje, atokiame kalnų kaimelyje pagrobiama maža mergaitė, kurią sena dvasia paverčia ragana.
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Gustav's zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil.
A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.
Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence.
It's Halloween eve on Shelter Island, and the small town is preparing for a killer storm. But the dark clouds gathering over the island are bringing with them a curse one-hundred years in waiting. As the woods give birth to an ungodly and insatiable creature of fire, bones, and earth, three sisters must scramble to stay alive through the long dark night of the Hollow. For it's not something you can kill. It's only something you can try and survive.
A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the Inquisition.
Six misfit schoolgirls at an all-girl Catholic high school, left alone at the school for Easter week, get mixed up with the occult and witchcraft after an old Satanic temple is found underneath the church where they attend as well as an old book of black magic spells for conjuring up an ancient demon from the pits of Hell. Janie, the most characteristic and cruelest of the girls, takes charge of the group and plots to resurrect the demon using a series of black arts spells, while one innocent girl, Faith, has a change of heart and tries to stop them from completing their spell which also includes a human sacrifice.
An executed witch inhabits her teenaged daughter's body to continue in the pursuit of bloodshed.
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
Nineteen people were hanged and one man pressed to death, while hundreds went to jail during the "witch hysteria" of 1692. THREE SOVEREIGNS FOR SARAH offers an accurate portrayal of the Salem witch trials, with real characters and original transcripts woven into the dialogue. The film is a powerful, moving story about three loving sisters accused of witchcraft.
Filmo veiksmas vyksta 1699-aisiais, Osmanų imperijai siaubiant Europą.
Daugybė žmonių gyvena skurde, badauja ir tiki siaubingais prietarais. Patekęs į nelaisvę osmanų karys Tahiras verčiamas priimti krikštą ir tik vietinė žiniuonė jaunoji Katarina, gydanti aplinkinius žmones, bando apginti vaikiną.
Netrukus ji pati apkaltinama derliaus sunaikinimu, paskelbiama ragana ir nuteisiama mirties bausme. Šįkart Tahiras bando ją gelbėti, deja, nesėkmingai – abu jaunuoliai nuteisiami sudeginti ant laužo. Susieti vieno likimo, Tahiras ir Katarina suvienija jėgas ir bando pabėgti.
A murderous and decrepit old woman resides on a California walnut farm with her family. On a whim, a traveler named Jodie makes a brief side trip to the farm, where he meets and falls in love with Melissa, the proverbial farmer's daughter. Jodie and Melissa grow closer as Melissa begins to reveal the strange, dark history of her family.
A 300-year-old witch terrorizes a college town to get revenge on the descendant of the man who persecuted her.
For centuries, the Murgatroyd family, the Baronets of Ruddigore, have been under a witch's curse — commit a crime every day, or die in agony. Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, the rightful heir, has run away to live as innocent peasant Robin Oakapple in the Cornish village of Rederring, sticking his brother Despard with the curse. But on the very day that "Robin" is to marry sweet, beautiful Rose Maybud, it all falls apart. Can Sir Ruthven outwit a picture gallery full of his ancestors' ghosts to save the day?
In a sleepy coastal village a curse lies waiting. Legend has it one night centuries ago when a smuggler was delivering his illicit wares, the excise men pounced. One of the villagers had betrayed him. The smuggler was caught and quickly hanged as an example but, his widow was more than she seemed, the practitioner of an ancient religion of magic and sorcery. The villagers formed a mob to hunt her down as a witch, they brutalised her, tarred and feathered her, but before they could kill her she put one last curse upon the land; that nothing should flourish, no life or love, before taking her own life and spilling her blood upon the land.