9 Horror Movies About Curses
Actions have consequences
If the consequences of your actions might lead to a cursed object or a curse on your whole family, you probably need to rethink what you’re about to do.
Curses are fascinating because they feel so real, so logical. Your brain is all too happy to slot a curse into being the cause of a pattern of events or behaviours that you’ve noticed going on around you. Even though you know curses are not real. Or are they?
There’s always some sort of secret or injustice behind a curse. Some tragic event has happened that someone, be it a whole family, a family member, or just a random person, won’t admit to. They kick the can down the road and leave the mess for their ancestors or an unwitting innocent to deal with.
Here are nine horror movies involving curses that will terrify you or give you a giggle. You decide which one is which.
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1. The Ring (2002)
The Ring is a supernatural horror story.
Rachel is a journalist investigating the strange circumstances of the death of her niece. She discovers a cursed videotape that her niece and friends watched seven days before her niece and friends died. After Rachel watches the tape, she gets an anonymous phone call from someone who whispers ‘seven days’.
Rachel makes a copy of the tape and asks Noah, her ex-boyfriend, to help investigate. Rachel starts to see hidden imagery on the tape, including a lighthouse and a woman who she identifies as someone who committed suicide.
After her son, Aidan, also watches the tape, she tracks down the family of the woman from the tape to uncover the secrets behind it to save herself, Aidan, and Noah.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 7.1 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.6 out of 5
2. Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)
Ju-On: The Grudge is a supernatural Japanese horror story.
Takeo murders his wife, Kayako, and son, Toshio, unleashing a curse that revives them as vengeful ghosts. Kayako’s ghost murders Takeo and the curse remains on the house, so anyone entering the house ‘catches’ the curse too. When they die, the curse also spreads to the place they die in, in turn affecting more people.
Rika, a social worker, is sent to care for an ill woman whose son and his wife have been killed by the ghosts. She finds Toshio and faints when she sees the woman she’s supposed to be caring for being killed by Kayako. Rika’s boss finds Rika and contacts the police.
More people die and two detectives research the history of the house to work out what’s going on and how to stop it.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 6.7 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.5 out of 5
3. Drag Me To Hell (2009)
Drag Me To Hell is a supernatural horror story.
Christine is a bank loan officer. She denies an old woman an extension on her mortgage and the woman attacks her in the car park after work. The woman tears a button from Christine’s coat and curses it.
A psychic tells Christine she is being haunted by something dark. Christine is attacked by a spirit at home and hallucinates about the old woman at work.
Christine goes to the old woman’s home to ask for forgiveness but learns the woman is dead. The psychic she’d seen previously tells her the cursed button will cause her to be tormented for three days before the spirit will drag her to Hell.
It becomes a race against time to get rid of the button and remove the curse.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 6.6 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.4 out of 5
4. Dark Shadows (2012)
Dark Shadows is a gothic comedy horror story.
In 1760, Barnabas Collins is cursed by Angelique when he spurns her advances. She murders his parents and curses him so that ‘all he loves will die‘.
When his fiancée jumps to her death, Barnabas throws himself after her. But Angelique further curses him to suffer for eternity as a vampire and convinces the town to bury him alive.
In 1972, Maggie comes to the Collins estate as a governess but tells the dysfunctional family her name is Victoria. She looks remarkably like Barnabas’s fiancée.
A construction crew accidentally releases Barnabas from his tomb and he finds himself perplexed by present-day life as he tries to restore glory to the family and release himself from the vampire curse.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 6.2 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.6 out of 5
5. The Cursed (2021)
The Cursed is a gothic werewolf horror story.
A Romani clan settle on some land in rural France in the late nineteenth century. The Romani leader knows there’ll be trouble with the local landowner and she makes a set of silver dentures in the form of wolf fangs. The landowner massacres the clan and the leader is buried alive clutching the silver fangs, while another Romani is dismembered and erected as a scarecrow to serve as a warning to others.
The townspeople start to have nightmares about the scarecrow and the fangs. A farm boy shows some other children the location of the scarecrow, digs up the fangs, and puts them in his mouth. He bites one of the other children – Edward, the son of the landowner – and the others all run away. Edward subsequently gets sick and disappears one night.
People then start to be mauled by a wolf-like beast and it becomes the job of a visiting pathologist to investigate and fix things.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 6.2 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.0 out of 5
6. Thinner (1996)
Thinner is a body horror story based on a Stephen King story.
Billy is an obese lawyer who’s celebrating his success in getting a Mafia client acquitted of a murder charge.
Billy runs over and kills an elderly Romani woman. At his trial, the local police chief lies for him and Billy is acquitted by the judge, who also happens to be a friend of his. The father of the dead woman puts a curse on Billy by touching Billy’s face and saying ‘Thinner‘.
Billy starts to lose weight and soon learns that the judge and the police chief have also been cursed.
After both his friends commit suicide, Billy desperately tries to find out how to break the curse before he wastes away.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 5.8 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.8 out of 5
7. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers is the sixth movie in the Halloween series of serial killer horror stories.
In 1989, Michael Myers and his niece, Jamie, are abducted by a cult leader. Six years later, Jamie gives birth to a child. A midwife helps Jamie escape and Michael kills the midwife but Jamie and her child get away.
Stuff happens, people die, while Tommy, the boy Laurie babysat in 1978, is obsessed with Michael. Tommy finds Jamie’s baby at a bus station and takes him to the hospital before taking him home.
Tommy believes that Michael has been cursed by the cult leader to kill his bloodline on Halloween night and thinks that Jamie’s baby will be the final sacrifice.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 4.7 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.6 out of 5
8. The Devonsville Terror (1983)
The Devonsville Terror is a supernatural horror story.
In 1683, in Devonsville, Massachusetts, three women are accused of witchcraft and are murdered by the townsfolk. When the last one dies, her ghost appears in the sky and a thunderstorm begins.
Three hundred years later, the local doctor investigates the supposed witch’s curse on the town. He comes down with a strange sickness in which worms crawl from his skin, a curse seemingly linked to his ancestors’ roles in the women’s deaths.
Meanwhile, three new women move to the town, angering the town’s bigoted patriarchs and threatening the comfortable status quo of the menfolk.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 4.7 out of 10 | Amazon: 3.7 out of 5
9. The Curse of Sleeping Beauty (2016)
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty is a fantasy horror story.
Thomas is an artist who has recurring dreams of a beautiful sleeping girl but always wakes up before he can kiss her.
Thomas inherits a letter and a property from his estranged uncle. The letter tells him to never go to the lower levels of the building and that the family is cursed.
During his first night sleeping in the house, Thomas has his usual dream but this time he finally kisses the girl and she wakes up. She tells him her name is Briar Rose and that now he’s close to her, they can communicate.
He learns that many people have gone missing in the house and he discovers that he’s now bound to the property. If he leaves for too long, he collapses and may die if he doesn’t get back there soon.
He believes that he has to wake Rose to break the curse and save both Rose and himself.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 4.3 out of 10 | Amazon: 3.1 out of 5
Published: 5 October 2022
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