The Exorcism of Emily Rose

With the Exorcism of Emily Rose, Director Scott Derrickson Put Himself on the Map and Started to Build a Career That Would Eventually Lead to Being Tapped for Doctor Strange.

Starring Matthew Mcconaughey with Bill Paxton and Powers Booth, Frailty Centers on a Family Torn Apart by a Demented Father Who Believes He Has Is Getting Messages from God.

Chances Are Good That If You're Reading Comicbook. Com, You've Heard of Filmmaker Kevin Smith.

. .. Umm, the Original, Obviously, Not the Remake with Nicolas Cage.

A 2001 Film Starring David Caruso (Csi: Miami) and Paul Guilfoyle (Csi), Session 9 Centers Around an Asbestos Crew That Is Called in to Clear out an Old, Abandoned Hospital.

As Far as Popular '80S Horror Franchises, House Is Kind of the One That Got Away.

We're Going with This One Largely Because, to Some Extent, the Visual of an Evil Nun Is Inherently Absurd -- So Even If You Are Watching These Movies for Some Serious Scares or the Creepy Religious Imagery, We're Going to Guess You Wouldn't Mind a Movie Where Abraham Lincoln and the Marquis De Sade Try to Kill Some High School Kids.

A Clever Anthology Movie That Has a Consistent Tone but a Variety of Characters, Trick 'R' Treat Feels Like a Movie That Was a Few Year's Ahead of Its Time and Could Easily Have Slotted into the "Shared Universe" Horror Movies of the Conjuring, the Purge, and Others Where Movie After Movie Follow a Different Group of Characters Facing a Similar Threat.

Since This Is Recent, It Has Probably the Most Visual Similarity to the Nun in the Sense That Horror Movies Tend to Go in Waves as to What Is Considered Scary at Any Given Moment.

This One Is a Kind of Melding of Various Styles, with Monsters, Body Horror, Jump Scares, Psychological Horror, and the Premise of a Family Trapped in a Haunted House All Kind of Blended into One Film.

Ten Horror Movies to Try If You Liked 'The Nun'

By James H. Sterling

• Oct 8, 2026 • 7 min read

Ten Horror Movies to Try If You Liked 'The Nun'

Direct Answer • Key Takeaway

As the U. S. Inches Ever Closer to Fall, the Tone and Tenor of Movies Drifts from Big-Budget Tentpoles to Creepy and Moody.

James H. Sterling

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James Sterling reports on renewable energy developments, climate policy, ecological conservation, and green tech innovations around the globe.

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