Occult
10 works in the index tagged OCCULT, across every medium we score — film, television, print, audio and objects.
Don't Look Now
Nicolas Roeg · 1973 · Film
Grief edited like a premonition. The ending is a knife.
The Omen
Richard Donner · 1976 · Film
Stately, humourless, and it kills people in ways you remember for thirty years.
Hellraiser
Clive Barker · 1987 · Film
Desire and agony filed under the same heading.
Heresy
Lustmord · 1990 · Record
Recorded in caves and crypts. The founding dark-ambient text.
Time Machines
Coil · 1998 · Record
Four long drones engineered to dismantle your sense of time.
The Croning
Laird Barron · 2012 · Book
Cosmic horror with a marriage at the centre of it.
Sinister
Scott Derrickson · 2012 · Film
The found super-8 reels are the whole film. Bleaker than its box office suggests.
A Dark Song
Liam Gavin · 2016 · Film
Ritual magic as tedious, exhausting labour. That is what makes it work.
The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor Lavalle · 2016 · Book
Lovecraft answered on his own ground, and beaten there.
Twin Peaks: The Return
David Lynch · 2017 · Television
Eighteen hours that refuse to be a season of television.
Tags are a blunt instrument. The axes are not.
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