Horror: Curses/Spells
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1. Bad Moon (1996)
R | 80 min | Horror, Thriller
After being bitten by a werewolf in the jungle, Ted looks for a cure. His lawyer sister, with a son and dog, invites him to park his camper by her house in the woods and live out of her fridge.
Director: Eric Red | Stars: Mariel Hemingway, Michael Paré, Mason Gamble, Ken Pogue
Votes: 8,135 | Gross: $1.06M
2. All Cheerleaders Die (2013)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Horror
A rebel girl signs up a group of cheerleaders to help her take down the captain of their high school football team, but a supernatural turn of events thrusts the girls into a different battle.
Directors: Lucky McKee, Chris Sivertson | Stars: Sidney Allison, Charon R. Arnold, Shay Astar, Sam Bean
Votes: 9,552
3. Unrest (I) (2006)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
A young pathology med student suspects that the spirit of a dead cadaver in the hospital morgue where she works is killing off all those who handle or desecrate the body.
Director: Jason Todd Ipson | Stars: Corri English, Scot Davis, Joshua Alba, Marisa Petroro
Votes: 8,281
4. Knights of Badassdom (2013)
R | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Live-action role players conjure up a demon from Hell by mistake and they must deal with the consequences.
Director: Joe Lynch | Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Steve Zahn, Peter Dinklage, Summer Glau
Votes: 21,531 | Gross: $0.09M
5. Dead Before Dawn 3D (2012)
R | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
A group of college kids accidentally create, and then unleash, a curse that makes anyone they come into contact with kill themselves and then turn into zombie demons.
Director: April Mullen | Stars: Devon Bostick, Martha MacIsaac, Christopher Lloyd, Brandon Jay McLaren
Votes: 4,275
6. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Horror
Six friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic rite. It backfires with deadly consequences.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Alan Ormsby, Valerie Mamches, Jeff Gillen, Anya Ormsby
Votes: 5,025
7.
Masters of Horror (2005–2007)
Episode:
Haeckel's Tale
(2006)
TV-MA | 59 min | Horror
A grieving widower seeking the help of a necromancer is told the terrible tale of Ernst Haekel, a man obsessed with reanimation.
Director: John McNaughton | Stars: Steve Bacic, Micki Maunsell, Gerard Plunkett, Derek Cecil
Votes: 3,054
8. Pumpkinhead (1988)
R | 86 min | Fantasy, Horror
After a tragic accident, a man conjures up a towering, vengeful demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy a group of unsuspecting teenagers.
Director: Stan Winston | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Jeff East, John D'Aquino, Kimberly Ross
Votes: 27,838 | Gross: $4.39M
9. The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
R | 98 min | Fantasy, Horror
An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield
Votes: 27,650 | Gross: $19.60M
10. The Craft (1996)
R | 101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them.
Director: Andrew Fleming | Stars: Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Rachel True
Votes: 107,748 | Gross: $24.88M
11. Thinner (1996)
R | 93 min | Fantasy, Horror
An obese attorney is cursed by a gypsy to rapidly and uncontrollably lose weight.
Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna, Lucinda Jenney, Bethany Joy Lenz
Votes: 33,621 | Gross: $15.17M
12. The Ring (2002)
PG-13 | 115 min | Horror, Mystery
A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox, David Dorfman
Votes: 375,116 | Gross: $129.13M
13. The Ring Two (2005)
PG-13 | 110 min | Horror, Mystery
6 months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness.
Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Naomi Watts, David Dorfman, Sissy Spacek, Simon Baker
Votes: 100,997 | Gross: $76.23M
14. Ringu (1998)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Mystery
A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.
Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi, Hitomi Satô
Votes: 77,514
15. The Grudge (2004)
PG-13 | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.
Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Clea DuVall, William Mapother
Votes: 150,881 | Gross: $110.36M
16. Kodie (2010)
Horror
A paranormal investigator is caught up in a series of bloody murders committed by a young woman dressed as a teddy bear. The mayhem is the result of a witch's curse and now must be stopped by the investigator and the local sheriff.
Director: Abel Berry | Stars: Jayson Champion, Jennifer Michelle Stone II, Abel Berry, Michael McGibson
Votes: 24
17. Black Demons (1991)
Unrated | 88 min | Horror
Three college students, another couple, and their housekeeper are besieged at a remote Brazilian plantation by a group of zombies raised from the grave by a voodoo curse.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Keith Van Hoven, Joe Balogh, Sonia Curtis, Philip Murray
Votes: 1,003
18. The Wicked (2013 Video)
Not Rated | 105 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Following the abduction of a young local girl, a group of teenagers test the legend of an immortal witch and get more than they bargained for.
Director: Peter Winther | Stars: Devon Werkheiser, Justin Deeley, Jess Adams, Jamie Kaler
Votes: 7,680
19. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
Directors: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | Stars: Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffin
Votes: 285,658 | Gross: $140.54M
20. Trick 'r Treat (2007)
R | 82 min | Comedy, Horror
Five interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband; and a mean old man meets his match with a demonic, supernatural trick-or-treater.
Director: Michael Dougherty | Stars: Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Dylan Baker, Rochelle Aytes
Votes: 104,634
21. From Within (2008)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A small Maryland town is gripped by a curse which causes residents to take their own life one after another.
Director: Phedon Papamichael | Stars: Elizabeth Rice, Thomas Dekker, Kelly Blatz, Laura Allen
Votes: 7,982 | Gross: $0.07M
22. Rites of Spring (2011)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror, Thriller
A ransom scheme turns into a nightmare for a group of kidnappers who become victims of a horrifying secret that must be paid every spring.
Director: Padraig Reynolds | Stars: AJ Bowen, Anessa Ramsey, Sonny Marinelli, Katherine Randolph
Votes: 2,300
23. The Evil Dead (1981)
NC-17 | 85 min | Horror
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker
Votes: 232,459 | Gross: $2.40M
24.
Fear Itself (2008–2009)
Episode:
Eater
(2008)
TV-14 | 41 min | Horror
Nothing is as it seems when a rookie cop is assigned to watch over a serial killer known as the "Eater".
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Russell Hornsby, Stephen Lee, Stephen R. Hart
Votes: 1,053
25. Needful Things (1993)
R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
Director: Fraser C. Heston | Stars: Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, Amanda Plummer
Votes: 27,509 | Gross: $15.19M
26. The Theatre Bizarre (2011)
Not Rated | 114 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A modern horror omnibus inspired by the over-the-top shocks of Paris' early 20th century 'Theatre du Grand Guignol'. Enola Penny sneaks into an abandoned theater and witnesses six bizarre tales.
Directors: Douglas Buck, Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Jeremy Kasten, Tom Savini, Richard Stanley | Stars: Udo Kier, Virginia Newcomb, Amanda Marquardt, Amelia Gotham
Votes: 4,476
27. Mark of the Witch (1970)
GP | 78 min | Horror
A 300-year-old witch terrorizes a college town to get revenge on the descendant of the man who persecuted her.
Director: Tom Moore | Stars: Robert Elston, Anitra Walsh, Darryl Wells, Jack Gardner
Votes: 590
28. Torture Garden (1967)
Not Rated | 93 min | Fantasy, Horror
An anthology of four short horror stories about people who visit Dr. Diabolo's fairground haunted-house attraction show.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams, Peter Cushing
Votes: 3,355
29. Witch-Hunt (2017)
81 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
When five young women gather to play a witch-themed board game, they begin to suspect one of them may actually be a witch.
Director: Philip Schaeffer | Stars: Melo Bourne, Erin Curtis, Abby Eiland, Lillian Olive
Votes: 287
30. The Guardian (1990)
R | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young couple with a newborn baby don't realize that the nanny they hired is a magical nymph who sacrifices infants to an evil tree.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Jenny Seagrove, Dwier Brown, Carey Lowell, Brad Hall
Votes: 6,400 | Gross: $17.04M
31. Tales from the Crypt (1972)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Ralph Richardson, Geoffrey Bayldon
Votes: 13,020 | Gross: $1.70M
32. Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Approved | 98 min | Horror
Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Neil McCallum, Ursula Howells
Votes: 7,502
33. The Binding (2020)
TV-MA | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
While visiting her fiancé's mother in southern Italy, a woman must fight the mysterious and malevolent curse intent on claiming her daughter.
Director: Domenico de Feudis | Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Mía Maestro, Giulia Patrignani, Mariella Lo Sardo
Votes: 4,660
34. Rings (2017)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young woman finds herself on the receiving end of a terrifying curse that threatens to take her life in 7 days.
Director: F. Javier Gutiérrez | Stars: Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Vincent D'Onofrio
Votes: 43,236 | Gross: $27.79M
35. Rings (2005 Video)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Horror, Mystery
Jake, a teenager watches a cursed video tape after joining a teen cult named "Rings". Join Jake as he lives the horrifying experiences of Samara Morgan's cursed tape.
Director: Jonathan Liebesman | Stars: Ryan Merriman, Emily VanCamp, Kelly Stables, Alexandra Breckenridge
Votes: 3,117
36. Spiral (1998)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit.
Director: Jôji Iida | Stars: Kôichi Satô, Miki Nakatani, Hinako Saeki, Shingo Tsurumi
Votes: 3,977
37. Ring 2 (1999)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Reiko takes Yôichi into hiding when her son begins to display frightening powers. Meanwhile, Mai Takano and the authorities begin a desperate search for them, as the mysterious Ring curse spreads.
Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Satô, Kyôko Fukada, Fumiyo Kohinata
Votes: 14,726
38. Red Clover (2012 TV Movie)
R | 88 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A young woman accidentally releases a homicidal leprechaun while hunting, which brings back memories of her town's deadly past.
Director: Drew Daywalt | Stars: Derek Babb, Kent Jude Bernard, Chase Boltin, Dave Davis
Votes: 857
39. The Craft: Legacy (2020)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A group of high school students form a coven of witches.
Director: Zoe Lister-Jones | Stars: Cailee Spaeny, Zoey Luna, Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone
Votes: 16,510
40. Shaapit: The Cursed (2010)
Not Rated | 145 min | Adventure, Horror, Romance
In order to wed his sweetheart, a male must reverse a 350-year old curse on her family.
Director: Vikram Bhatt | Stars: Aditya Narayan, Shweta Agarwal, Rahul Dev, Shubh Joshi
Votes: 1,135
41. One Missed Call (2003)
R | 112 min | Horror, Mystery
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kô Shibasaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi, Anna Nagata
Votes: 19,317
42. Ludo (2015)
90 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Needing a secluded place for a late-night tryst, two couples stow away in a mall after hours, but are quickly ensnared in a gruesome and deadly game.
Directors: Qaushiq Mukherjee, Nikon | Stars: Kamalika Banerjee, Joyraj Bhattacharya, Soumendra Bhattacharya, Ananya Biswas
Votes: 952
43. The Hollow Child (2017)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A troubled foster teen, Samantha, works to expose a dangerous supernatural impostor in her new family and rescue her foster sister.
Director: Jeremy Lutter | Stars: Jess McLeod, Hannah Cheramy, John Emmet Tracy, Jana Mitsoula
Votes: 1,727
44. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
R | 112 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Arne Cheyenne Johnson stabs and murders his landlord, claiming to be under demonic possession while Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate the case and try to prove his innocence.
Director: Michael Chaves | Stars: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ruairi O'Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook
Votes: 139,060 | Gross: $65.63M
45. Sinister (I) (2012)
R | 110 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A controversial true-crime writer finds a box of Super 8 home movies in his new home, revealing that the murder case he is currently researching could be the work of an unknown serial killer whose legacy dates back to the 1960s.
Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, James Ransone, Fred Thompson
Votes: 280,276 | Gross: $48.09M
46. The Hole in the Ground (2019)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A single mother living in the Irish countryside with her son begins to suspect he may not be her son at all, and fears his increasingly disturbing behavior is linked to a mysterious sinkhole in the forest behind their house.
Director: Lee Cronin | Stars: Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, Kati Outinen, David Crowley
Votes: 22,372 | Gross: $0.02M
47. Sinister 2 (2015)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.
Director: Ciarán Foy | Stars: James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon, Robert Daniel Sloan, Dartanian Sloan
Votes: 60,593 | Gross: $27.74M
48. Slaxx (2020)
TV-MA | 77 min | Comedy, Horror
When a possessed pair of jeans begins to kill the staff of a trendy clothing store, it is up to Libby, an idealistic young salesclerk, to stop its bloody rampage.
Director: Elza Kephart | Stars: Romane Denis, Brett Donahue, Sehar Bhojani, Kenny Wong
Votes: 4,171
49. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Approved | 137 min | Drama, Horror
A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer
Votes: 235,259
50. Flight 7500 (2014)
PG-13 | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Flight 7500 departs Los Angeles International Airport bound for Tokyo. As the overnight flight makes its way over the Pacific Ocean during its ten-hour course, the passengers encounter what appears to be a supernatural force in the cabin.
Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Leslie Bibb, Ryan Kwanten, Amy Smart, Jamie Chung
Votes: 17,161
51. Them (2021– )
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Anthology horror series with varying characters and locations by season, featuring different aspects of the horror genre.
Stars: Deborah Ayorinde, Ashley Thomas, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Alison Pill
Votes: 24,838
52. Stay Alive (2006)
PG-13 | 85 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
For a group of teens, the answer to the mysterious death of their old friend lies within the world of an online video game based on the true story of an ancient noblewoman known as the Blood Countess.
Director: William Brent Bell | Stars: Jon Foster, Samaire Armstrong, Frankie Muniz, Jimmi Simpson
Votes: 34,032 | Gross: $23.09M
53. Encounter with the Unknown (1972)
PG | 90 min | Horror, Mystery
Three eerie tales based on actual events are enacted in this film. First, three college students play a prank on a geeky classmate, who is accidentally shot and killed. His vengeful mother ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Thomason | Stars: Rod Serling, Robert Ginnaven, Gary Brockette, John Leslie
Votes: 676
54. The Task (2011)
R | 94 min | Horror
A group of reality show contestants must survive the night in a haunted jail.
Director: Alex Orwell | Stars: Alexandra Staden, Victor McGuire, Sean McConaghy, Adam Rayner
Votes: 3,706
55. The Ritual (I) (2017)
TV-MA | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of old college friends reunite for a trip to a most dangerous country in Europe - Sweden, encountering a menacing presence there stalking them.
Director: David Bruckner | Stars: Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier, Sam Troughton
Votes: 119,763
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