Movies about Dark Arts & Magic
The Craft (1996)
Dir: Andrew Fleming
Stars: Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Rachel True
A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them.
Practical Magic (1998)
Dir: Griffin Dunne
Stars: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest
The wry, comic romantic tale follows the Owens sisters, Sally and Gillian, as they struggle to use their hereditary gift for practical magic to overcome the obstacles in discovering true love.
The Skeleton Key (2005)
Dir: Iain Softley
Stars: Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard, Joy Bryant, Gena Rowlands
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house’s dark past.
The Covenant (2006)
Dir: Renny Harlin
Stars: Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Toby Hemingway, Taylor Kitsch
Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Another great force they must contend with is the jealousy and suspicion that threatens to tear them apart.
Season of the Witch (2011)
Dir: Dominic Sena
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Claire Foy, Stephen Campbell Moore
14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.
Solomon Kane (2009)
Dir: Michael J. Bassett
Stars: James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Pete
A ruthless mercenary renounces violence after learning his soul is bound for hell. When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer’s murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil.
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
Dir: Wes Craven
Stars: Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield
An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.