Top Ten Voodoo Horror Movies

10. Voodoo Dawn (1991): A gritty, low-budget flick featuring Tony Todd about a group of migrants who find themselves targeted by a voodoo cult.

9. Bad Voodoo (2026): A new supernatural horror release featuring escaped convicts who face voodoo terrors in a mysterious house.

8. Bitter Souls (2025): After a tragic accident a teenage girl is resurrected with the use of black magic. She uses her new-found powers to exact vengeance on her tormentors.

7. Spell (2020): A modern survival horror where a man crashes his plane in rural Appalachia and is taken in by a practitioner of Hoodoo who uses a blood-magic doll to keep him captive.

6. Eve’s Bayou (1997): While more of a Southern Gothic drama, this film heavily features Voodoo themes and a haunting atmosphere as a young girl in 1960s Louisiana navigates family secrets.

5. White Zombie (1932): Starring Bela Lugosi, this is famously the first-ever zombie movie. It depicts a witch doctor using Voodoo to turn a woman into a mindless slave.

4. I Walked with a Zombie (1943): A high-art classic from Jacques Tourneur, often cited as one of the best horror movies ever made. It explores Voodoo in the Caribbean through a nurse’s perspective.

3. Angel Heart (1987): A neo-noir masterpiece starring Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro. It follows a private eye into a dark web of murder and Voodoo rituals in 1950s New Orleans.

2. The Skeleton Key (2005): Set in the Louisiana bayou, this film follows a hospice nurse (Kate Hudson) who discovers the mansion she works in holds deep Hoodoo secrets. It is praised for its Southern Gothic atmosphere and shocking twist ending.

1. The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988): Directed by Wes Craven and based on a true account, this film follows an anthropologist (Bill Pullman) investigating zombie-making drugs in Haiti. It is widely considered the definitive Voodoo horror film for its transition from scientific inquiry to supernatural terror.