(1) The Possession of Hannah Grace
The film opens with a chilling exorcism gone wrong. Hannah Grace, a young woman possessed by a powerful demonic entity, undergoes an intense exorcism ritual. Despite the priests’ efforts, the demon within her is too strong. Hannah ends up killing one of the priests and must be smothered to death by her father to stop the evil.
Three Months Later…
We meet Megan Reed, a former Boston cop struggling with trauma, addiction, and guilt from a past incident. She’s trying to rebuild her life and takes the night shift at a city hospital morgue — quiet, isolated, and seemingly perfect for someone avoiding the world.
One night, a burned and contorted corpse arrives — it’s Hannah Grace, listed as having died during an exorcism. As Megan processes the body, strange things begin to happen.
Despite being dead, Hannah’s body shows signs of healing itself — her wounds close, her skin regenerates. Megan begins to suspect that something supernatural is going on, and through research, she learns about Hannah’s failed exorcism and the demon inside her.
The demon isn’t just lingering — it’s still inside the corpse, needing fresh victims to keep Hannah’s body alive.
Megan battles her own mental demons while trying to stop the very real one inside Hannah. She finally confronts the possessed corpse in the morgue, managing to burn Hannah’s body in a crematorium. The fire seems to finally destroy the demon.
Megan starts to rebuild her life. But in the final scene, a motion sensor flickers on in an empty hallway… leaving a chilling sense that the evil may not be gone for good.
(2) The Crooked Man
At the start, a young girl named Olivia (Angelique Rivera) attends a sleepover where she and her friends recite a creepy nursery rhyme intended to summon the “Crooked Man”—a malevolent demonic figure. But when one of the girls goes missing or dies under horrifying circumstances, the others are traumatized, and Olivia is blamed. Olivia is subsequently institutionalized.
Six Years Later Olivia has returned home after six years away. However, unexplained deaths begin occurring around her—people are found with their necks twisted unnaturally, mirroring the “crooked” aspect of the rhyme. She realizes the Crooked Man has returned and is stalking those linked to that fateful night.
Desperate to stop the curse and prove her innocence, Olivia enlists help from her father (Michael Jai White) and friend Cameron Jebo. As the death toll rises, they unravel the rhyme’s connection to the demonic entity. The tension builds as they race to break the curse before the Crooked Man claims more victims.
The Crooked Man follows a traumatised young woman haunted by a nursery-rhyme demon years after a tragic sleepover. Teaming up with her father and friend, she battles to break the curse and stop the Crooked Man’s murderous rampage. With supernatural chills and psychological horror at its core, it’s a tense stand-alone horror worth a watch if you enjoy folklore-based scares.
(3) Slender Man
In colonial Massachusetts, high school friends Hallie, Wren, Chloe, and Katie hold a sleepover. They discover a creepy online video teaching how to summon Slender Man—a tall, faceless creature from creepypasta lore. Out of curiosity, they perform the ritual.
A week later on a field trip, Katie senses something in the woods and vanishes without a trace. The remaining trio suspect their ritual unleashed something far more sinister.
Investigating Katie’s digital footprint, they uncover her fixation on the occult and her belief that Slender Man could free her. They attempt to contact him, discarding personal items to regain Katie—but Chloe panics, opens her eyes during the ritual, and encounters Slender Man.
Strange phenomena escalate: Chloe experiences hallucinations and paranoia; Wren sees her face melt in a library; Hallie’s younger sister gets traumatized seeing Slender Man. The entity stalks them relentlessly.
Believing Slender Man wants to claim them, Wren sacrifices herself—pulled away by tentacles. Hallie bravely confronts the entity in the woods, offering herself in exchange for her sister’s safety. He transforms into a twisted tree, ensnaring and merging Hallie into it.
Lizzie, Hallie’s sister, survives but is traumatized, waking in hospital screaming that “He has no face.” The film closes on this chilling note.
Slender Man delivers eerie visuals and faithful homage to its meme origins, but critics argue its characters and plot feel bland and predictable. Fans of internet-legend horror may appreciate the creature’s depiction, though it falls short of truly scary or innovative horror.
(4) Evil Dead Rise
At a remote lakeside cabin, a woman becomes possessed and violently murders her friend before levitating ominously over the lake. This short cold open hints that something ancient and evil is about to awaken again…
A sudden earthquake hits the city, cracking open the basement of the parking garage below the apartment. Danny explores the hole and discovers:
- A strange, flesh-bound book (the Book of the Dead, aka Necronomicon).
- Three old phonograph records from 1923.
Despite warnings, Danny takes the items upstairs. Later, out of curiosity, he plays the recordings, which contain an ancient incantation spoken by a priest. The ritual awakens a demonic force.
Ellie is attacked by the unseen demonic force in the elevator. She becomes possessed by a Deadite, returning to her apartment in a dazed, violent state. She vomits black bile, has convulsions, and soon brutally murders neighbors.
She begins attacking her own children, starting with Bridget and Danny, and even attempts to kill little Kassie. Ellie is no longer herself — she’s a cruel, taunting, and sadistic version twisted by the evil entity.
As the night unfolds, Beth and the kids are trapped in the apartment with the possessed Ellie and other rising Deadites. The building is isolated, and the stairwell has collapsed. Ellie mutilates herself and becomes even more monstrous.
Bridget is also infected and transforms into a Deadite, leaving Beth as the only adult survivor trying to protect Kassie.
Beth finds strength in her role as a protector — and as an expecting mother. She arms herself with a chainsaw and other tools to battle the evil. The climax takes place in the parking garage where the Deadites merge into a horrific abomination made from Ellie and her kids’ corpses — called the Marauder.Beth and Kassie barely escape the bloodbath and destroy the monster by feeding it into a wood chipper.
As dawn rises, Beth and Kassie walk away from the building, scarred but alive. Meanwhile, back at the apartment complex, another resident — a girl from the prologue — enters the garage, unaware of the horrors that just occurred. The demonic force awakens again, looping the film back to its opening scene.
Evil Dead Rise is a brutal, relentless horror film full of shocking gore, creative kills, and high tension. It’s a fresh take on the franchise, moving the terror from a cabin in the woods to a claustrophobic urban high-rise — proving evil can rise anywhere.