Best Occult & Black Magic movies of 1980s

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Tom Holland,

A single mother gives her son a much sought after doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.

Actors : Charlotte Rampling, Mickey Rourke, Lisa Bonet, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Alan Parker,

Harry Angel is a private investigator. He is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer called Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.

Actors : Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Doug Bradley, Kenneth Cranham,
Directors : Tony Randel,

Kirsty is brought to an institution after the death of her family, where the occult-obsessive head resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites once again.

Actors : Cathy Tyson, Bill Pullman, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield,
Directors : Wes Craven,

An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, John D'Aquino, Jeff East, Kimberly Ross,
Directors : Stan Winston,

After a tragic accident, a man conjures up a towering, vengeful demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy a group of unsuspecting teenagers.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Julian Sands, Lori Singer, Mary Woronov,
Directors : Steve Miner,

A warlock flees from the 17th to the 20th century, with a witch-hunter in hot pursuit.

Actors : Robert Loggia, Harley Cross, Helen Shaver, Martin Sheen,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

A New York psychiatrist finds that a satanic cult, which believes in child sacrifice, has a keen interest in his own son.

Actors : Rossano Brazzi, Sam Neill, Lisa Harrow, Don Gordon,
Directors : Graham Baker,

The now adult Antichrist plots to eliminate his future divine opponent while a cabal of monks plot to stop him.

Actors : Albert Salmi, James Houghton, Larry Pennell, Lynn Carlin,
Directors : James W. Roberson,

A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants.

Actors : Rick Rossovich, Tim Daly, Audra Lindley, Kelly Preston,
Directors : Janet Greek,

A young lawyer, after falling in love with a beautiful young woman, finds that she has an extremely mysterious past.

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Donald Hotton, David Gautreaux, Trish Van Devere,
Directors : George Bowers,

A girl is haunted by a phantom hearse, which she believes is connected to her departed aunt, a witch with a bad reputation in town.

Actors : Rainbow Harvest, William Sanderson, Karen Black, Yvonne De Carlo,
Directors : Marina Sargenti,

A teenage girl begins receiving black magic power through an antique mirror that drips blood, not realizing the mirror is controlled by demonic forces.

Actors : T.J. Merrick, Dennis Embry, Mary Huner, Craig Sabin,
Directors : Gregory Lamberson,

A student moves into a run-down building in New York City. His bizarre neighbors make a concoction in their apartment they call wine, but when he takes some of it, he turns into a deformed, murderous monster.

Actors : Lawrence Tierney, Charles Jackson, Melanie Verlin, John Hall,
Directors : John A. Russo,

A teenage runaway and 2 guys traveling cross-country encounter a family of satanists.

Actors : Robert R. Shafer, Dan Campbell, Jeff Qualle, Palmer Lee Todd,
Directors : Wallace Potts,

Six college students on their weekend vacation are humiliated and killed one by one by a psycho cop.

Actors : W.D. Mochtar, Sofia W.D., Ilona Agathe Bastian, Yos Santo,
Directors : H. Tjut Djalil,

Researching a book that takes her to Bali and the black magic cult of Leák, Cathy meets an evil witch which promises to train her in the dark arts. Tricked, Cathy is turned into a ...

Actors : Phillip Ko, Lung Wei Wang, Shao-Yen Lin, Kar-Man Wai,
Directors : Chih-Hung Kuei,

While in Thailand to avenge his brother who was crippled in a fight with a corrupt Thai boxer, a man gets caught up in a web of fate, Buddhism and black magic.

Actors : John Saxon, Michael Dante, Mario Milano, Lynda Day George,
Directors : Herb Freed,

An architect and his wife moves into a house with a bloody past and a 100 year old ghost, who possesses the wife.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Faith Clift, Marc Lawrence, Richard Moll,

Police detective, Mitchell, investigating the death of a victim of a Nazi concentration camp discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.

Actors : Julia Saly, Silvia Aguilar, Paul Naschy, Azucena Hernández,
Directors : Paul Naschy,

An evil witch brings back to life the infamous Elizabeth Bathory, who was executed several hundred years previously for murdering young woman and bathing in their blood.