Movies: Ritual

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...

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...

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

Mondo-style documentary in which a movie crew travels to newly independent Papua New Guinea to capture the customs and culture of the cannibal natives. Prepare yourself for death rituals, war costumery, crude tattoos, animal killings, and cannibalism...

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....

Nathan is thirteen years old boy. Driven by his new friend Malik, he prepares himself for a strange ritual to become a member of a teens gang....

"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....

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

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

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...

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

An ambitious teen conducts an ancient ritual to enact petty revenge on those who she believes have wronged her....

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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....

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 ...

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'...

Through a traditional cleansing ceremony in a popular market, Oliver, a young man, will try to release all the weight that he has been carrying for some time. The short film was made in a 72 hour rally contest....

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