10 Possession Horror Movies on Tubi With Serious Boundary Issues
Demons, Deadites, cursed objects, and one very bad party game make personal space a supernatural problem in 10 possession horror movies on Tubi.
Horror has given us plenty of useful life lessons. Don't read from the suspicious book. Don't volunteer for the séance. Maybe stop buying antiques with extremely concerning backstories. Possession movies add one more: your body should really be a one-tenant property.
Of course, horror wouldn't have much fun if anybody respected that rule. Demons move in rent-free, spirits treat human bodies like open houses, and every now and then, someone willingly invites the supernatural inside because surely they'll be the person it works out for. Underneath all the head-spinning, strange voices, and inevitable calls for an exorcist is one of the genre's nastier fears: losing control of the one place you should always be able to call your own. Your face is still yours. Your voice sounds like yours. Who's actually behind the wheel? Different story.
Possession horror has spent decades finding new ways to violate that boundary, and Tubi's Possession Obsessions collection is full of movies where supernatural personal space is more of a suggestion. Terror on Tubi can keep the nightmare going once we've exhausted our supply of holy water.
Grab the crucifix. Maybe stretch first. Things are about to start bending.
Talk to Me
Most possession movies spend a lot of time trying to get the spirit out. The teenagers in Talk to Me are lining up to let one in.
A group of friends discovers that an embalmed hand can connect them with the dead, turning possession into the supernatural equivalent of a party drug. Light the candle. Grab the hand. Say “Talk to me.” Invite the spirit inside. Just remember to let go.
Talk to Me takes one of horror's oldest fears and gives it an extremely modern problem: what happens when getting possessed is actually fun? Sophie Wilde's Mia is grieving her mother's death when the ritual offers a connection to something beyond herself, making the temptation much harder to dismiss once the game stops feeling like a game. Horror fans know the cursed-object rules. Teenagers traditionally do not.
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Insidious
Your child is asleep. Unfortunately, his body has vacancies.
James Wan's Insidious follows Josh and Renai Lambert after their son Dalton inexplicably falls into a coma. Medical answers don't explain what's happening, strange activity begins surrounding the family, and eventually the problem becomes much bigger than a haunted house since Dalton isn't simply unconscious. His ability to astral project has taken him somewhere called the Further, leaving his physical body behind while something less friendly considers moving in.
Enter Elise Rainier. Lin Shaye's paranormal investigator became a horror favorite for good reason, bringing calm authority to a situation involving astral projection, malevolent entities, and one demon with a face you're probably going to remember when the lights go out. The Lambert family wanted their kid back. Several other things want the address.
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Evil Dead
Cabin in the woods? Check. Mysterious book wrapped in something deeply concerning? Check. Someone reads from it anyway? We have an Evil Dead movie.
The 2013 Evil Dead brings Mia and a group of friends to an isolated cabin as they try to help her through withdrawal. Then somebody discovers the Naturom Demonto, ignores a truly heroic number of visual warnings, and reads from it. The Deadites take things from there.
Jane Levy's Mia gets put through an absolutely brutal possession gauntlet as the movie turns demonic takeover into full-body horror. This isn't the kind of possession where somebody's voice gets deeper and a priest reaches for holy water. Bodies become playgrounds for whatever has been unleashed, and the practical gore refuses to look away.
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The Last Exorcism
Reverend Cotton Marcus has performed plenty of exorcisms. There's just one small issue. He doesn't believe in them.
The Last Exorcism follows Cotton as he allows a documentary crew to film what he intends to be his final fraudulent exorcism, hoping to expose the tricks behind a practice he believes can do more harm than good. Then he meets Nell Sweetzer, whose father is convinced something demonic has taken hold of his daughter.
The found-footage setup makes belief part of the scare. We're watching a professional skeptic run through the exact performance he's used before while the possibility grows that this time, somebody else might be performing too. Nothing humbles a skeptic quite like a demon refusing to follow the script.
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Exorcist II: The Heretic
Regan MacNeil already did the possession thing. She'd like to unsubscribe.
Four years after the events of The Exorcist, Linda Blair returns as Regan in Exorcist II: The Heretic, where therapy begins uncovering pieces of the nightmare she doesn't fully remember. Pazuzu, unfortunately, hasn't treated the first movie as closure.
The sequel gets much stranger with psychic connections, synchronized hypnosis, locust imagery, and an attempt to understand why Regan became a target in the first place. It also asks an interesting question that possession movies don't always stick around long enough to explore: What happens to the person after everyone declares the demon gone? It's the same refusal to let horror survivors move on that we explored in our article about horror's returning Final Girls, only Regan's old enemy happens to live on the demonic side of things.
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Night of the Demons
Halloween party at an abandoned mortuary. Horror fans have already identified several problems with this sentence.
Angela and her friends choose Hull House for their Halloween festivities in Night of the Demons, because somehow nobody in 1988 had access to a nice living room. A séance gets involved, an evil presence wakes up, and soon the guest list starts changing from partygoers to possessed partygoers.
Angela's transformation helped turn the movie into an '80s cult favorite, but the real appeal is how enthusiastically everything commits to Halloween-night chaos. Makeup effects, demonic transformations, punky attitude, and increasingly questionable decisions all get invited.
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The Vatican Tapes
Angela Holmes starts exhibiting behavior that would be concerning in any household. Then the Vatican gets involved.
Olivia Taylor Dudley stars as Angela in The Vatican Tapes, where a series of disturbing incidents surrounding her eventually attracts attention far beyond her family and local clergy. What begins as one woman's apparent possession grows into something with implications larger than saving a single soul.
Possession stories often make the victim the battleground between good and evil. This one starts wondering what happens when the battle might be pointing toward something apocalyptic. When the Vatican has a file on you, the situation has probably moved beyond WebMD.
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Anything for Jackson
Most people in possession movies are desperately trying to keep spirits out. Audrey and Henry have invited one over.
The grieving grandparents at the center of Anything for Jackson kidnap a pregnant woman as part of a reverse exorcism intended to bring their dead grandson back through her unborn child. It's an awful idea before the ritual even starts. Then other spirits realize somebody left the door open.
Usual possession is flipped on its head here. Audrey and Henry aren't naïve teenagers reading from a cursed book or innocent victims targeted by a demon. They've studied the occult. They have a plan. They know exactly what they're trying to invite inside. Knowing the guest's name doesn't mean you control the guest list, though.
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The Atticus Institute
Scientists finally find convincing evidence of the supernatural. Humanity handles it with maturity and restraint. Just kidding.
Presented like a documentary assembled from archival footage and interviews, The Atticus Institute looks back at a 1970s research facility devoted to studying supposed psychic phenomena. Then Judith Winstead arrives with abilities the researchers can't easily dismiss. Interest eventually extends beyond the laboratory.
The mockumentary format lets possession collide with institutional curiosity: what begins as an attempt to scientifically document the impossible becomes something other people would very much like to understand, contain, and potentially use. Horror has repeatedly asked whether we should study the supernatural. Horror has also repeatedly answered its own question.
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The Exorcism of God
Father Peter Williams successfully performed an exorcism years ago. “Successfully” is doing some heavy lifting.
The Exorcism of God catches up with the priest decades after a possession left him carrying a secret from the encounter. When another case forces him back toward the same evil, casting the demon out becomes tangled with what happened the first time.
His history with the demon puts a different spin on the familiar priest-versus-demon showdown. The exorcist isn't arriving untouched, armed with absolute certainty and ready to save somebody else. He's already carrying the consequences of meeting this particular darkness before. Because demons hold grudges. And horror loves a rematch.
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