Movies: Ritual

In a quest to rediscover the spiritual values of his own people, an African filmmaker from the Gourmantche tribe of Burkina Faso visits an Aboriginal band, the Atikamekw of northern Quebec. The resulting documentary is a dialogue between those who di...

For over 30 years, the so-called First Transmission video from Psychic TV, has been the stuff of, well, “snuff film” legend. First advertised in the back pages of Thee Grey Book , The First Transmission was an ultra weird touchstone of the undergroun...

A woman wakes up bound to an altar, helpless as she is transformed into a flesh and blood statue of Santa Muerte by two elderly Brujos whose sole purpose is to conjure the anti-Christ into our plane of existence....

Thirteen years after her seemingly normal father goes on a killing spree, a college senior and friends return to her hometown to uncover the secret of a macabre satanic cult and what her role is in their grand scheme....

Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa....

Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old townhouse that had been packed in crates and shipped to Boston Children's Museum. This first-hand observation of traditional tools and woodworking te...

An unclaimed fortune, grown for centuries in a British bank account, becomes a potential windfall for Bernadito Castiñeiras and the residents of the tiny village of Yaragüey, Cuba. To receive his massive inheritance check, Bernadito must prove his li...

"Tourou et Bitti", an eight minute documentary concerning a ritual in Niger, is yet another example of Rouch's excellence in creating documentaries which surpass the conventional documentary format. Just as frightening and fascinating as "Les maîtres...

The teams of the 'Not Found' and 'Honto Ni Atta. Noroi No Video' franchises join forces to create the definitive psychic documentary series. This is a selection of the best videos....

Ukwaluka is an ancient circumcision ritual for young men still widely practiced by the Xhosa in South Africa. It marks the transition from youth to manhood. A boy who has just undergone circumcision sits in semi-darkness in a simple hut on a hill, fa...

A group of friends get trapped in a haunted abbey with no easy way of escaping....

A young couple, Jana and Sami, prepare a religious ritual so that Jana can get in contact with her late friend....

A young woman's story of possession and healing in rural Rajasthan...

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After her mother’s death, Sarah lives isolated with her aunt. One night, she confesses experiencing the feeling of a presence, something malicious and relentless....

A collection of videos that spotlight all kinds of terror "tragedies", not limited to psychic phenomena such as fights, violence, and passing by. It captures many horrors that occur close to human beings, such as "black money finance" where the wife'...

Three American late teens travel to Japan to escape a sad past and have some fun but end up trapped in a house with a demented Japanese host family who plans to offer them to their gods in a sick ancient Japanese ritual....

Deep in the heart of FIU Miami, a group of students stumbles upon an ancient ritual hidden beneath the campus grounds. What starts as a curiosity turns into a nightmare as an eerie chant echoes through the halls, awakening something that should have ...

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