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The number of the beast

In the Book of Revelation, the beast that rises from the sea carries a number, and the number is six hundred and sixty-six. Cinema took that number and made it the birthmark of a little boy called Damien, and ever since the Devil has been one of the great characters of the screen: a gentleman with a contract, a voice in the night, a goat in a barn, a lawyer in a tower of glass. Ticket666 takes the number in its name as its subject, and gathers 156 films of the Devil and his kin, his children and his servants, his demons and his hells, the witches who dance with him and the angels who fight him, and sorts them on twelve boards, in three categories.

Every film of the guide has an English synopsis, its cast and director and a Watch now button that opens it on JustWatch, where you can see the services that offer it in your country. The oldest film is Häxan, of 1922, a Swedish and Danish history of witchcraft in which the director himself plays the Devil, and the newest is The Conjuring: Last Rites, of 2025. Together the films carry about 450,900 votes on TMDB, with an average rating of 6.46; the most voted is The Conjuring, of 2013, with about 13,200 votes, and the best rated are The Seventh Seal, of 1957, by Ingmar Bergman, with an 8.1, and Day of Wrath, of 1943, by Carl Theodor Dreyer, with an 8.0. The guide Start with Ticket666 picks one film from each board, and the guide The Devil on screen follows his career in cinema.

The first category, The Devil himself, holds the films in which he appears in person or through his heir: the Antichrist, the deals with the Devil, the classic devils of the silent and studio years, and the Devil in comedy. The second, Possession and exorcism, holds the films of the demons who enter bodies and houses: the exorcists, The Conjuring and its heirs, the houses of evil and the demons unleashed. The third, Hell, witches and cults, holds the films of the places and people of the dark: the gates of hell, the witches and their covens, the cults and their rituals, and the angels of the end of days.

The name and the look

The Wayback Machine keeps ticket666.com from 2007 to 2020. In October 2007 the address carried a small forum of film reviews, Streaming DiVX DVD Movie Reviews, with a few hundred posts and a news box that hoped to move from beta to launch, built on the forum software Simple Machines with a theme called MysticJade; from 2009 it was a parked page selling tickets to shows and sports. The stylesheet of the theme is missing from the archive, so the look of this guide follows the layout of the forum page and takes its colours from the name of the theme.

The page is the dark green of jade in shadow. The header carries a row of tabs in the manner of the forum, Home, the three categories and My list, on bars of jade that darken toward the bottom, and the logo draws a ticket stub with the 666 of the name in red. The introduction sits in a panel under a jade bar marked News, as the forum's news did, and the board of the home page, called The boards, lists the twelve shelves as the forum listed its boards, in rows of two alternating shades under a jade category bar, each with its category above it and its number of films beside it. Each shelf has its own jade title bar with a View board button, and each poster carries the rating on a blood-red tag, the year on a dark tag and the tag of its board in jade capitals on a dark band at the bottom. The guide The look of Ticket666 explains each detail.

How the boards work

Every film of the guide is a film of the Devil, of a demon, of hell, of witchcraft or of a satanic cult, or of the angels and prophecies that oppose them, chosen by hand from TMDB. Each film sits on a single board, chosen by its main idea, and each board keeps its thirteen most voted films and lists them by votes, so that the best known come first. 144 of the 156 films are in English, and the others in Italian, Swedish, German, French, Mandarin, Danish and Spanish, all with an English synopsis. The guide How the boards work sums up the rules.

The Devil on screen

The Devil is as old as cinema. Georges Méliès played him in short trick films before 1900, and the silent age gave him two masterpieces: Häxan, the strange documentary of witchcraft by the Dane Benjamin Christensen, and Faust, of 1926, by F. W. Murnau, in which Emil Jannings as Mephisto spreads his black wings over a whole town, rated 7.9. The studios of Hollywood made him a gentleman, the Mr Scratch of All That Money Can Buy, of 1941, a farmer's bargain argued in court by the orator Daniel Webster, and the British studio Hammer and the American Roger Corman made him a figure of gothic colour in the 1960s. Then, between 1968 and 1976, three films changed the horror film for ever, by bringing the Devil into the modern city and the modern family: Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist and The Omen.

The success of those three opened the floodgates. The 1980s gave the Devil to the makers of special effects, from the deadites of Sam Raimi to the Cenobites of Clive Barker; the 1990s gave him to the stars, Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate and Arnold Schwarzenegger against him in End of Days; and the 2010s gave him to the producers of cheap and profitable horror, with the haunted houses of Insidious and Paranormal Activity and the cases of Ed and Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring, which grew into the most successful horror series ever made. The last ten years have brought the art-house devils, the coven of Hereditary, the goat of The Witch and the talk show of Late Night with the Devil. The guide The Devil on screen tells the story.

The mark of the beast

The number itself has a story on screen. The Omen made 666 a birthmark hidden under the hair of a child, and the remake of 2006 was released on the sixth day of the sixth month of the year 2006 to make the most of it; Damien finds the same mark on his own scalp in Damien - Omen II. The fear of the number grew with the satanic panic of the 1980s, when parents and preachers in America saw the Devil behind heavy metal records, role-playing games and horror videos, and the films answered in their own way: Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny laughs at the panic twenty years later, and The House of the Devil, set in the 1980s and shot like a film of the time, plays it straight. The guide The mark of the beast follows the number through the films of the guide.

The Devil himself

The first category, The Devil himself, gathers 52 films in which the Devil appears in person, or through his son, his bargains or his jokes, with about 106,600 votes and an average rating of 6.60. It holds the oldest films of the guide and its classics, and it ends with the comedies, proof that audiences have always enjoyed laughing at the Prince of Darkness as much as fearing him. The guide The Devil himself sums up the category.

The Antichrist

The board The Antichrist holds thirteen films from 1968 to 2024 of the child of the Devil, his birth and his rise. Its best rated film is Rosemary's Baby, of 1968, by Roman Polanski, from the novel of Ira Levin, with Mia Farrow as a young wife of New York who becomes pregnant and begins to suspect that her husband and her friendly old neighbours of a grand old building of Manhattan have promised her baby to a coven, rated 7.8. Its most voted film is Hereditary, of 2018, the first feature of Ari Aster, with Toni Collette as a mother whose family is haunted after the death of her secretive mother, and whose grief hides the plan of a cult devoted to the demon king Paimon, rated 7.3 with about 9,000 votes.

The Omen and its heirs fill most of the rest. The Omen of 1976, by Richard Donner, with Gregory Peck as an American diplomat in London who discovers that the boy he adopted at birth carries the mark of the beast, rated 7.4, with the music of Jerry Goldsmith that won the Academy Award, was followed by Damien - Omen II, of 1978, with William Holden; by The Final Conflict, of 1981, with the young Sam Neill as the grown Antichrist; by a remake in 2006, on the sixth day of the sixth month of the year, and by The First Omen, of 2024, a young American novice in a convent of Rome who discovers the plot to bring the child into the world, rated 6.8. Immaculate, of 2024, with Sydney Sweeney, follows a nun in Italy who becomes pregnant while still a virgin; Apartment 7A, of 2024, tells the story of Rosemary's neighbour before Rosemary; End of Days, of 1999, sets Schwarzenegger against Satan on the last night of the millennium; The Seventh Sign, of 1988, with Demi Moore, and Bless the Child, of 2000, with Kim Basinger, close it with Devil's Due, of 2014, a honeymoon that ends in a strange pregnancy, the lowest rated of the board, at 4.7. The guide The Omen films follows the Antichrist.

Deals with the Devil

The board Deals with the Devil holds thirteen films from 1926 to 2011 of the bargains struck with the Devil and the prices paid. Its most voted and best known film is The Devil's Advocate, of 1997, by Taylor Hackford, with Keanu Reeves as a young lawyer of Florida who has won every case and is hired by a great firm of New York whose head, played by Al Pacino, turns out to be Satan himself, rated 7.5 with about 7,100 votes. The oldest and best rated is Faust, of 1926, the old German legend of the scholar who sells his soul for youth, and the same legend returns in Mephisto, of 1981, by István Szabó, with Klaus Maria Brandauer as an actor who sells his talent to the Nazis, the winner of the Academy Award for the best foreign language film, and in Faust: Love of the Damned, of 2000.

The bargains of the shelf take many forms. Angel Heart, of 1987, by Alan Parker, with Mickey Rourke as a private detective of the New York of 1955 hired by a strange Louis Cyphre, played by Robert De Niro, rated 7.1; The Ninth Gate, of 1999, by Roman Polanski, with Johnny Depp as a dealer in rare books who searches for the last copies of a book said to summon the Devil; Needful Things, of 1993, from Stephen King, with Max von Sydow as a shopkeeper whose antiques cost more than money; Crossroads, of 1986, by Walter Hill, with Ralph Macchio as a young guitarist who goes south to win back an old bluesman's soul in a guitar duel, rated 7.4, and Drag Me to Hell, of 2009, by Sam Raimi, a bank clerk cursed by the old woman she refused. Nicolas Cage is twice the stunt rider of Ghost Rider, of 2007, and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, of 2011, who sold his soul to save his father, and Spawn, of 1997, sends a murdered soldier back from hell as the general of its army. All That Money Can Buy, of 1941, closes the board.

Classic devils

The board Classic devils holds thirteen films from 1922 to 1975, and it is the best rated board of the guide, with an average of 7.21 and two films rated 8 or more, the only two of the guide. The Exorcist, of 1973, by William Friedkin, from the novel of William Peter Blatty, with Ellen Burstyn as an actress of Washington whose twelve-year-old daughter, Regan, played by Linda Blair, is possessed by the demon Pazuzu, and Max von Sydow as the old priest who comes to drive him out, is its most voted film, rated 7.7 with about 8,900 votes, and the first horror film nominated for the Academy Award for best picture. The best rated, The Seventh Seal, by Ingmar Bergman, sends a knight home from the Crusades to play chess with Death on a beach of plague-stricken Sweden, and Day of Wrath, by Carl Theodor Dreyer, tells of a young wife in the Denmark of the witch trials of 1623.

The rest of the board is a history of the horror of the studios. Black Sunday, of 1960, the first film of Mario Bava, with Barbara Steele as a witch who returns two hundred years after her execution, rated 7.4; Night of the Demon, of 1957, by Jacques Tourneur, a scientist who mocks a cult leader and receives a parchment of runes; The Black Cat, of 1934, the first film to bring together Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, as a satanist architect and his enemy; The Masque of the Red Death, of 1964, by Roger Corman, with Vincent Price as a prince who worships Satan while the plague rages outside his walls; Witchfinder General, of 1968, Price again as a hunter of witches of the English Civil War; The Devil Rides Out, of 1968, Christopher Lee against a coven for Hammer, and The Devils, of 1971, by Ken Russell, with Oliver Reed as a priest accused of bewitching a convent of nuns, rated 7.5. Simon of the Desert, of 1965, by Luis Buñuel, a hermit on a column tempted by Silvia Pinal as the Devil, at 45 minutes the shortest film of the guide, and Race with the Devil, of 1975, two couples in a camper who witness a sacrifice in Texas, close it. The guide The classic devils follows them.

The Devil laughs

The board The Devil laughs holds thirteen films from 1967 to 2022 in which the Devil and his followers are a joke. Its most voted film is This Is the End, of 2013, by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, in which a group of comedians playing themselves are trapped in the house of James Franco at the start of the Apocalypse, rated 6.2 with about 7,100 votes, and its best rated is South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, of 1999, by Trey Parker, the musical in which Satan and his lover Saddam Hussein plan to rise from hell, rated 7.3. Bedazzled appears twice, the British film of 1967, by Stanley Donen, with Peter Cook as the Devil and Dudley Moore as the cook who sells his soul for seven wishes, and its remake of 2000, by Harold Ramis, with Elizabeth Hurley as the Devil and Brendan Fraser.

The witches of the board are the funniest. Hocus Pocus, of 1993, brings three witch sisters of Salem, led by Bette Midler, back to life on Halloween, rated 7.0, and its sequel, Hocus Pocus 2, of 2022, rated 7.1, followed twenty-nine years later; The Witches of Eastwick, of 1987, by George Miller, gives Jack Nicholson the role of the charming devil who seduces three women of a small town of New England, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer. The sons of the Devil are here too, Adam Sandler as Little Nicky, of 2000, sent to Earth to bring back his brothers, and Jack Black and Kyle Gass of Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, of 2006, who go in search of a guitar pick made from a tooth of Satan. Jennifer's Body, of 2009, a cheerleader sacrificed by a band and turned into a demon; The Babysitter, of 2017, a babysitter who leads a satanic cult; Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, of 1991, two heroes who beat Death at board games, and The Devil and Max Devlin, of 1981, a comedy of Disney with Bill Cosby as an agent of hell, complete it. The guide The Devil in comedy follows the jokes.

Possession and exorcism

The second category, Possession and exorcism, gathers 52 films of the demons who enter bodies, dolls and houses, and of those who fight to drive them out, with about 185,600 votes, the most of the three categories, and an average rating of 6.38. It is the category of modern horror, born from The Exorcist, and its films have filled the cinemas of every Halloween for twenty years. The guide Possession and exorcism sums up the category.

Exorcists

The board Exorcists holds thirteen films from 1977 to 2023 of the priests and believers who face the possessed. Its most voted film is The Pope's Exorcist, of 2023, with Russell Crowe as Gabriele Amorth, the real chief exorcist of Rome, on a scooter and with a sense of humour, rated 6.9 with about 3,300 votes, and the sequels of The Exorcist are all here: Exorcist II: The Heretic, of 1977, by John Boorman, with Richard Burton, the lowest rated of the board, at 4.5; The Exorcist III, of 1990, directed by William Peter Blatty himself from his own novel, with George C. Scott, the best rated sequel, at 6.3; Exorcist: The Beginning, of 2004, the youth of Father Merrin in Africa, and The Exorcist: Believer, of 2023, with Ellen Burstyn returning as the mother of Regan.

Scott Derrickson made two of the other films: The Exorcism of Emily Rose, of 2005, the trial of a priest after the death of a young woman he tried to exorcise, drawn from a true case of Germany, with Laura Linney and Tom Wilkinson, rated 6.6, and Deliver Us from Evil, of 2014, a police officer of New York who teams up with a priest. The rest of the board follows the rites in every form: The Rite, of 2011, with Anthony Hopkins as an old exorcist of Rome; The Possession, of 2012, a girl who buys a box that holds a dybbuk, a demon of Jewish folklore; The Last Exorcism, of 2010, a preacher who fakes exorcisms until he meets a real one; Prey for the Devil, of 2022, a nun who trains as an exorcist; The Devil Inside, of 2012, and The Vatican Tapes, of 2015. The guide The exorcist films follows the rites.

The Conjuring and its heirs

The board The Conjuring and its heirs holds thirteen films from 2009 to 2023 from the two factories of modern horror, the films that the director James Wan made for New Line and those that the producer Jason Blum made for his company Blumhouse. Its most voted film is the most voted of the guide: The Conjuring, of 2013, by James Wan, with Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson as Lorraine and Ed Warren, the real investigators of the paranormal, called to a farmhouse of Rhode Island where a witch of the past haunts a family of seven, rated 7.5 with about 13,200 votes. The Conjuring 2, of 2016, sends them to a council house of London, and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, of 2021, to a murder trial in which the killer claims possession, both rated 7.3.

The universe of The Conjuring spread to its objects and demons: the doll of Annabelle, of 2014, Annabelle: Creation, of 2017, and Annabelle Comes Home, of 2019; the demon nun Valak of The Nun, of 2018, and The Nun II, of 2023, and the weeping woman of Mexican folklore of The Curse of La Llorona, of 2019. Patrick Wilson, the actor seen most often in the guide, in eight films, also plays the father of Insidious, of 2011, and Insidious: Chapter 2, of 2013, by James Wan, whose son drifts into a world of spirits called the Further; Ethan Hawke is the writer of true crime who finds a box of old home films in his attic in Sinister, of 2012, by Scott Derrickson, and Paranormal Activity, of 2009, made for about fifteen thousand dollars, filmed a young couple and the demon of their house with a single camera, one of the most profitable films ever made. The guide The Conjuring universe follows the Warrens.

Houses of evil

The board Houses of evil holds thirteen films from 1982 to 2025 of the houses, rooms and objects where something evil waits. Its most voted film is 1408, of 2007, from a story of Stephen King, with John Cusack as a writer who debunks haunted places and checks into the room of a hotel of New York where fifty-six people have died, rated 6.7 with about 5,100 votes, and its best rated is the Poltergeist of 1982, by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, in which the spirits of a suburban house take the little daughter of the family through the television, rated 7.2; the remake of 2015 is here too. The Amityville Horror of 2005, with Ryan Reynolds, retells the most famous haunted house of America, on Long Island.

The other films of the board are the sequels and heirs of the great series. Insidious: Chapter 3, of 2015, and Insidious: The Last Key, of 2018, follow the psychic Elise Rainier, played by Lin Shaye, into the Further; Paranormal Activity 2, of 2010, and Paranormal Activity 3, of 2011, go back in time to the childhood of the sisters of the first film; Sinister 2, of 2015, follows the demon Bughuul to a farm. Mike Flanagan made two of the best films of the board, Oculus, of 2014, a brother and sister who try to prove that an antique mirror killed their parents, and Ouija: Origin of Evil, of 2016, a fake medium of the 1960s whose daughter really speaks with the dead, rated 6.2, far above the first Ouija, of 2014. The Conjuring: Last Rites, of 2025, the last case of the Warrens and the newest film of the guide, rated 6.9, closes the board. The guide The haunted house follows the houses of the guide.

Demons unleashed

The board Demons unleashed holds thirteen films from 1983 to 2024 of demons set free on the living, and it is the second best rated board of the guide, with an average of 6.88. The Evil Dead series of Sam Raimi stands at its heart, with five films: The Evil Dead, shot in the woods of Tennessee by a group of young friends from Michigan, in which a recording of a book of the dead wakes the demons of a cabin, rated 7.3; Evil Dead II, of 1987, the best rated of the board, at 7.5, which turned the same story into a slapstick of blood with Bruce Campbell as Ash and his chainsaw hand; Army of Darkness, of 1992, which sent Ash to the Middle Ages, and the two later films, Evil Dead, of 2013, by Fede Álvarez, the most voted film of the board, rated 6.7 with about 5,400 votes, and Evil Dead Rise, of 2023, in a block of flats of Los Angeles, rated 7.0. Bruce Campbell appears in all five, as Ash or as a voice.

The other demons of the board come in every form. Late Night with the Devil, of 2024, by Colin and Cameron Cairnes, the talk show of Halloween night of 1977 that invites a possessed girl on air, rated 7.1; Talk to Me, of 2023, by Danny and Michael Philippou, the teenagers who grab an embalmed hand to let the dead in, rated 7.1; Longlegs, of 2024, by Osgood Perkins, with Maika Monroe as an agent of the FBI and Nicolas Cage as a satanic killer; Smile, of 2022, a curse that passes from victim to victim; Devil, of 2010, from a story of M. Night Shyamalan, five strangers trapped in a lift with the Devil among them; Fallen, of 1998, with Denzel Washington as a detective hunted by the demon Azazel, who passes from body to body by touch; Prince of Darkness, of 1987, by John Carpenter, a canister of green liquid in a church of Los Angeles that holds the son of Satan, and Demons, of 1985, by Lamberto Bava, a cinema whose audience turns into demons while watching a horror film. The guide The Evil Dead follows the deadites.

Hell, witches and cults

The third category, Hell, witches and cults, gathers 52 films of the places and people of the dark, with about 158,700 votes and an average rating of 6.41. It goes down to the gates of hell and up to the angels of the end of days, and between them it holds the witches and the cults, the oldest followers of the Devil in folklore and the newest in horror. The guide Hell, witches and cults sums up the category.

The gates of hell

The board The gates of hell holds thirteen films from 1987 to 2022 of hell and of the doors that lead to it. Its most voted films are the two of Hellboy by Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy, of 2004, and Hellboy II: The Golden Army, of 2008, with Ron Perlman as a demon summoned to Earth by the Nazis as a child and raised by an American scientist to fight the forces of darkness, rated 6.7 and 6.8. The Hellraiser of 1987, written and directed by Clive Barker from his own novella, opens a puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, the demons of pain led by Pinhead, rated 6.9, and returns in Hellbound: Hellraiser II, of 1988, and in the remake of 2022, by David Bruckner, in which Pinhead is played by Jamie Clayton.

The hells of the board take many shapes. Event Horizon, of 1997, a spaceship that returns from beyond the edge of the solar system with hell on board; Jacob's Ladder, of 1990, by Adrian Lyne, with Tim Robbins as a veteran of Vietnam haunted by demons in the streets of New York, the best rated film of the board, at 7.4; What Dreams May Come, of 1998, with Robin Williams as a man who goes down into hell to rescue his wife, rated 7.3; Silent Hill, of 2006, from the video game, a mother lost in a town covered in ash; In the Mouth of Madness, of 1995, by John Carpenter, with Sam Neill as an investigator who enters the novels of a writer of horror; The Cell, of 2000, by Tarsem Singh, the hellish mind of a killer; Doom, of 2005, from the video game, with Dwayne Johnson on Mars, and Hell House LLC, of 2015, a false documentary of a haunted attraction of Halloween. The guide The hells of cinema follows them.

Witches and covens

The board Witches and covens holds thirteen films from 1977 to 2018 of the witches of folklore and horror. Its most voted film is The Witch, of 2016, the first feature of Robert Eggers, with Anya Taylor-Joy as the eldest daughter of a Puritan family of New England of the 1630s, banished from their settlement to a farm at the edge of a wood, where a black goat called Black Phillip waits, rated 7.0 with about 8,000 votes. The Suspiria of 1977, by Dario Argento, in which an American dancer discovers that her academy of ballet in Germany is run by a coven, with its screaming colours and the music of Goblin, is the best rated film of the board, at 7.5, and its remake of 2018, by Luca Guadagnino, with Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton, at 152 minutes the longest film of the guide, is here too; Argento closed his trilogy of the three mothers with The Mother of Tears, of 2007.

The witches of the rest of the board range from the horror to the comedy. The Blair Witch Project, of 1999, three students lost in the woods of Maryland with their cameras, invented the craze of found footage; The Autopsy of Jane Doe, of 2016, by André Øvredal, a father and son of the morgue examining an unknown woman whose body hides an old curse, rated 6.8; The Craft, of 1996, four schoolgirls of Los Angeles who form a coven; The Witches, of 1990, by Nicolas Roeg, from Roald Dahl, with Anjelica Huston as the Grand High Witch, rated 7.0; Practical Magic, of 1998, with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as sisters of a family of witches; The Love Witch, of 2016, by Anna Biller, in the colours of the films of the 1960s. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, of 2013, with Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton, The Last Witch Hunter, of 2015, with Vin Diesel, and Season of the Witch, of 2011, with Nicolas Cage, are the action films of the board. The guide The witches of the screen follows them.

Cults and rituals

The board Cults and rituals holds thirteen films from 1973 to 2022 of the cults that worship the Devil or older gods, and of the rites they perform. Its most voted film is Midsommar, of 2019, by Ari Aster, with Florence Pugh as a young woman in mourning who joins her boyfriend and his friends at the midsummer festival of a Swedish commune that happens once every ninety years, rated 7.1 with about 8,500 votes. Its best rated films are two, at 7.3 each: The Wicker Man, of 1973, by Robin Hardy, with Edward Woodward as a devout police officer and Christopher Lee as the lord of an island of pagans, and the French Martyrs, of 2008, by Pascal Laugier, a secret society that tortures young women to learn what lies beyond death.

The cults of the rest of the board are hidden in every corner of the world. The Ritual, of 2017, four friends lost in a Swedish forest who find the village of a god of the woods; The Invitation, of 2016, a dinner party of old friends who have joined a group in Mexico; Mandy, of 2018, by Panos Cosmatos, with Nicolas Cage as a lumberjack who takes revenge on a cult of hippies; Apostle, of 2018, by Gareth Evans, a man who rescues his sister from an island cult of Wales in 1905; The Endless, of 2017, two brothers who return to the camp they fled; Kill List, of 2011, by Ben Wheatley, two hit men whose last job leads to a pagan rite; The House of the Devil, of 2009, by Ti West, a student babysitter of the 1980s on the night of a lunar eclipse; Children of the Corn, of 1984, from Stephen King, the children of a farm town of Nebraska who kill every adult; The Lords of Salem, of 2013, by Rob Zombie, and the Taiwanese Incantation, of 2022, a mother who broke a taboo of a family cult, told as found footage, rated 6.9. The guide Cults on screen follows the rituals.

Angels and the end of days

The board Angels and the end of days holds thirteen films from 1991 to 2017 of the angels, prophets and rapture that oppose the Devil, or join his war. Its most voted and best rated film is Constantine, of 2005, by Francis Lawrence, with Keanu Reeves as John Constantine, a chain-smoking exorcist of Los Angeles who has been to hell and back and fights the half-breeds of heaven and hell, with Tilda Swinton as the archangel Gabriel and Peter Stormare as Lucifer, rated 7.2 with about 8,600 votes. Darren Aronofsky made two films of the board: mother!, of 2017, with Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem as a couple whose house is invaded by strangers, an allegory of the Bible from the creation to the end, and Noah, of 2014, the flood.

The war of the angels fills the rest. The Prophecy, of 1995, with Christopher Walken as the archangel Gabriel waging a second war in heaven; Legion, of 2010, and Priest, of 2011, both by Scott Stewart and both with Paul Bettany, the first as the archangel Michael defending a diner in the desert; Dogma, of 1999, by Kevin Smith, with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as two fallen angels who find a loophole to return to heaven, rated 6.9; Frailty, of 2002, directed by the actor Bill Paxton, a father of Texas who believes an angel has given him a list of demons to destroy, rated 7.0; Knowing, of 2009, with Nicolas Cage and a page of numbers that predicts every disaster; I, Frankenstein, of 2014, the creature caught in a war of gargoyles and demons; Gabriel, of 2007, an archangel in a city of eternal night; The Rapture, of 1991, with Mimi Rogers, and Left Behind, of 2014, with Nicolas Cage on a plane during the rapture, the lowest rated film of the guide, at 4.3. The guide The end of days follows the angels.

The faces of the dark

The same faces return across the boards. Patrick Wilson is the actor seen most often in the guide, in eight films, six of them as Ed Warren in the Conjuring films and two as the father of the Insidious films, and Vera Farmiga, his Lorraine, appears in six. Nicolas Cage appears in seven, from the two Ghost Riders and the witch hunter of Season of the Witch to the lumberjack of Mandy, the killer of Longlegs and the passengers of Knowing and Left Behind. Doug Jones, the actor under the makeup, plays the fish man Abe Sapien in the two Hellboy films and the zombie Billy Butcherson in the two Hocus Pocus films, and Lin Shaye is the psychic of four Insidious films. Max von Sydow is the great old face of the guide, in five films: the knight of The Seventh Seal, Father Merrin in The Exorcist and Exorcist II, the shopkeeper of Needful Things and a guide through the afterlife in What Dreams May Come. Bruce Campbell, the Ash of the Evil Dead, appears in all five films of the series.

Among the directors, James Wan and Michael Chaves have four films each, all of them of the Conjuring and Insidious universes; Sam Raimi has four, the three Evil Dead films of his youth and Drag Me to Hell; Scott Derrickson has three, Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Deliver Us from Evil, and Ari Aster, Roman Polanski, Darren Aronofsky, Guillermo del Toro, John Carpenter, Mike Flanagan and Dario Argento have two each. The guide The stars lists the actors who appear most often.

Ticket666 in figures

The 156 films of the guide carry about 450,900 votes on TMDB, with an average rating of 6.46; two of them reach 8, The Seventh Seal and Day of Wrath, and the collection Rated 7.5 or more gathers the twelve films rated 7.5 or more, best first, from The Seventh Seal to Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Conjuring and Evil Dead II. By decade, the guide holds two films of the 1920s, one of the 1930s, two of the 1940s, two of the 1950s, seven of the 1960s, eight of the 1970s, fifteen of the 1980s, 22 of the 1990s, 26 of the 2000s, 54 of the 2010s and seventeen of the 2020s, and the busiest year is 2014, with eight films. The collection Before 1970 gathers the fourteen films made before 1970, oldest first, from Häxan to Rosemary's Baby, and the collection The 2020s gathers the seventeen films made since 2020.

Together the films last 16,158 minutes, more than 269 hours, or eleven days and nights in the dark; the longest is the Suspiria of 2018, with 152 minutes, followed by Midsommar, with 147, and the shortest is Simon of the Desert, with 45. The United States is the first country of production of 102 films, the United Kingdom of seventeen and Canada of ten. The most voted films are The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2, Hereditary, The Exorcist and Constantine, and the lowest rated are Left Behind, at 4.3, and Exorcist II: The Heretic, at 4.5. The guide The figures gathers every number.

Where to begin

For a first night, take one film from each category: Rosemary's Baby for the Devil himself, The Exorcist for possession and The Witch for the witches. Then follow your nerve. For the masters, The Seventh Seal, Häxan and Faust; for a laugh, The Witches of Eastwick and This Is the End; for gore, Evil Dead II and Hellraiser; for slow dread, Hereditary, The Wicker Man and Late Night with the Devil; for a stormy evening with friends, The Conjuring and Drag Me to Hell. The guide Start with Ticket666 picks one film from each board.

How to use Ticket666

The home page opens with the News panel and the board list The boards, with the twelve shelves in three columns, one per category, in rows of two alternating shades. Each row shows the category, the board and its number of films, and leads to that board on the page. Each board has a jade title bar with a View board button that opens the full shelf. The tabs in the header lead to the three categories, and the search box finds any film by its title; the guide Search tips explains how.

Each poster shows the year on a dark tag, the TMDB rating on a red tag and, on a dark band at the bottom, the tag of its board, for example Antichrist or Witch; under the poster come the title, the first genre and the running time. The film page has the English synopsis, the cast, the director and the genres. The Watch now button opens the film on JustWatch, which shows the services that offer it in your country, and the list button keeps it in My list, stored in your browser. The guide How to use Ticket666 explains each part, and the guide The Watch now button explains how JustWatch works.

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