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1. The Iron Claw (2023)
R | 132 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s.
Director: Sean Durkin | Stars: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney
Votes: 57,778
2. Ready or Not (I) (2019)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett | Stars: Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien, Henry Czerny
Votes: 182,878 | Gross: $28.71M
3. Holes (2003)
PG | 117 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason.
Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson
Votes: 100,352 | Gross: $67.41M
4. The Cursed (2021)
R | 111 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
In rural 19th-century France, a mysterious, possibly supernatural menace threatens a small village. John McBride, a pathologist, comes to town to investigate the danger - and exorcise some of his own demons in the process.
Director: Sean Ellis | Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxane Duran
Votes: 16,785
5. Practical Magic (1998)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love.
Director: Griffin Dunne | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest
Votes: 93,133 | Gross: $46.68M
6. Logan Lucky (2017)
PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two brothers attempt to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race in North Carolina.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig, Farrah Mackenzie
Votes: 162,278 | Gross: $27.78M
7. Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A pair of star-crossed lovers in Ireland get caught up in their family's land dispute.
Director: John Patrick Shanley | Stars: Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Jon Hamm, Christopher Walken
Votes: 12,118
8. Without a Paddle (2004)
PG-13 | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery
After their friend dies, three men decide to fulfill their childhood dream by going on a camping expedition for the lost D. B. Cooper bounty, with calamitous results.
Director: Steven Brill | Stars: Matthew Lillard, Seth Green, Dax Shepard, Matthew Price
Votes: 50,962 | Gross: $58.17M
9. Chapelwaite (2021–2023)
TV-MA | 516 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family to his ancestral home in the small, sleepy town of Preacher's Corners. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family's history and fight to end the darkness.
Stars: Adrien Brody, Emily Hampshire, Jennifer Ens, Sirena Gulamgaus
Votes: 12,099
10. The Beast (1975)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In order to inherit a fortune a young woman agrees to marry a young man. She soon discovers that his family harbours a dark past involving a monstrous beast.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza, Pierre Benedetti
Votes: 5,350
11. Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Unrated | 71 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When Countess Marya Zaleska appears in London, mysterious events occur that lead Dr. Von Helsing to believe that the Countess must be a vampire.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill, Edward Van Sloan
Votes: 8,022
12. Malevolent (III) (2018)
TV-MA | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A team of scam artists get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted country estate gets out of hand.
Director: Olaf de Fleur Johannesson | Stars: Florence Pugh, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Scott Chambers, Georgina Bevan
Votes: 17,105
13. Revenant (2023– )
60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Ku San Young works and studies at night to become a public officer. After receiving a relic from her dead father mysterious deaths take place around her, and she finds herself slowly changing.
Stars: Hong Kyung, Kim Tae-ri, Oh Jung-se, Kim Hae-sook
Votes: 2,755
14. Black Sunday (1960)
Approved | 87 min | Horror
A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani
Votes: 17,621
15. Martin (1977)
R | 95 min | Drama, Horror
A young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a Pennsylvania small town where he tries to redeem his blood-craving urges.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest, Elyane Nadeau
Votes: 12,617 | Gross: $0.10M
16. Flowers (2016–2018)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
Dark comedy about the eccentric members of the Flowers family. Maurice and Deborah are barely together but yet to divorce. They live with Maurice's batty mother and their maladjusted twin children.
Stars: Sophia Di Martino, Olivia Colman, Julian Barratt, Daniel Rigby
Votes: 6,592
17. Scared Topless (2015 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Ghosts cause a sexual frenzy when college students visit a haunted house.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Cindy Lucas, Bridgette B., Frankie Cullen, Billy Chappell
Votes: 388
18. Moloch (2022)
99 min | Horror, Mystery
Betriek lives on the edge of a bog in the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. She discovers that something is chasing her.
Director: Nico van den Brink | Stars: Sallie Harmsen, Alexandre Willaume, Anneke Blok, Fred Goessens
Votes: 6,799
19. Devil's Nightmare (1971)
R | 95 min | Fantasy, Horror
A group of tourists traveling on a bus take a detour to stay overnight in a castle owned by a family cursed with a history of Satanism and death.
Director: Jean Brismée | Stars: Erika Blanc, Jean Servais, Daniel Emilfork, Lucien Raimbourg
Votes: 2,191
20. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
An ordinary man must embark on a search to find his missing wife that leads him to an abandoned house where a mysterious family lives who harbor an evil secret within the house and themselves.
Director: Koushi Nakanishi | Stars: Todd Soley, Katie O'Hagan, Jack Brand, Sara Coates
Votes: 10,348
21. House of Usher (1960)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Horror
Upon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe
Votes: 15,459 | Gross: $3.16M
22. Meridian (1990 Video)
R | 85 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Two American girls in Italy are drugged and raped by an evil magician and his twin brother who suffer from a curse that turns them into beastmen each day. One of the girls falls for the good twin and decides to help him break the curse.
Director: Charles Band | Stars: Sherilyn Fenn, Malcolm Jamieson, Charlie Spradling, Hilary Mason
Votes: 1,793
23. Dark Shadows (1991)
TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Victoria Winters comes to Collinwood, an isolated mansion in Maine, to work as a governess, but soon finds herself drawn into a strange world of vampires, ghosts and curses.
Stars: Ben Cross, Barbara Blackburn, Jim Fyfe, Joanna Going
Votes: 2,140
24. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie
Votes: 11,697
25. I Married a Witch (1942)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward
Votes: 9,538 | Gross: $0.31M
26. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Mystery
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi
Votes: 12,388
27. Mausoleum (1983)
R | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror
A 10 year-old girl, mourning the death of her mother, becomes possessed by a demon who has been preying on her female ancestors for centuries. Years later, the demon starts to take over, both mentally and physically.
Director: Michael Dugan | Stars: Marjoe Gortner, Bobbie Bresee, Norman Burton, Maurice Sherbanee
Votes: 3,097
28. Monster Family 2 (2021)
PG | 103 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
To free Baba Yaga and Renfield from the clutches of Monster Hunter Mila Starr, the Wishbone Family once more transforms into a Vampire, Frankenstein's Monster, a Mummy and a Werewolf. Aided... See full summary »
Director: Holger Tappe | Stars: Emily Carey, Jason Isaacs, Rainer Fritzsche, Bernhard Völger
Votes: 1,160 | Gross: $0.08M
29. And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
R | 91 min | Horror
England, 1795: the young Catherine has just married Charles Fengriffen and moves into his castle. She becomes the victim of an old curse that lays on the family. On her wedding night she is raped by a ghost and gets pregnant.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Stephanie Beacham
Votes: 3,077
30. Curses! (2023– )
TV-G | Animation, Action, Adventure
When a generations-long family curse turns Alex Vanderhouven to stone, it's up to his two kids, Pandora and Russ, and his wife Sky, to return artifacts stolen by their ancestors to their rightful homes to finally lift the curse for good.
Stars: Rhys Darby, James Marsters, Gabrielle Nevaeh, Lyric Lewis
Votes: 243
31. Dragonwyck (1946)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan
Votes: 5,404
32. The Lodgers (2017)
R | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A family curse confines orphaned twins Rachel and Edwards to their home, in punishment for their ancestors' sins. Bound to the rules of a haunting childhood lullaby, the twins must never let any outsiders inside the house.
Director: Brian O'Malley | Stars: Charlotte Vega, Bill Milner, Eugene Simon, David Bradley
Votes: 9,654
33. Berserker (1987)
R | 85 min | Horror
Six people renting a cabin in the woods of Utah run afoul of a legendary viking warrior who dons the claws and mouth of a bear, with no help in sight.
Director: Jefferson Richard | Stars: Joseph Alan Johnson, Greg Dawson, Valerie Sheldon, Shannon Engemann
Votes: 1,072
34. Bleeders (1997)
R | 89 min | Horror
A man travels to an island with his girlfriend in search of his relatives, but he finds maybe more than what he wanted to know.
Director: Peter Svatek | Stars: Gillian Ferrabee, Pascal Gruselle, Roy Dupuis, Kristin Lehman
Votes: 3,037
35. She-Wolf of London (1946)
Passed | 61 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Don Porter, June Lockhart, Sara Haden, Jan Wiley
Votes: 3,032
36. Monster Dog (1984)
R | 84 min | Horror, Music
A rock star returns to his childhood home to shoot a music video while a pack of wild dogs are on the loose killing off the local residents.
Director: Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Alice Cooper, Victoria Vera, Carlos Santurio, Pepa Sarsa
Votes: 1,599
37. Cry of the Banshee (1970)
GP | 91 min | Horror
In 1500s England, a cruel witch-hunting magistrate, who often tortures innocent villagers for his entertainment, runs afoul of a witch who conjures a banshee to kill the magistrate and his family.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Vincent Price, Elisabeth Bergner, Essy Persson, Hugh Griffith
Votes: 2,900
38. Curse of the Devil (1973)
R | 73 min | Horror
A man whose ancestors executed a witch is turned into a werewolf by modern-day descendants of the executed witch.
Director: Carlos Aured | Stars: Paul Naschy, Fabiola Falcón, Mariano Vidal Molina, Maritza Olivares
Votes: 903
39. Psychonauts (2005 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Raz, a young psychic, must battle forces greater than he if he is to save his new-found friends at the Whispering Rock psychic camp, where children are having their brains mysteriously stolen.
Director: Tim Schafer | Stars: Richard Steven Horvitz, Nikki Rapp, Stephen Stanton, Alexis Lezin
Votes: 1,917
40. 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: 951
41. Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983)
133 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Princess Shizu was born under a terrible curse. Only the eight legendary samurai, hailing from across Japan, can protect her from an ancient supernatural clan to fulfill their destinies as foretold by prophecy.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Etsuko Shihomi
Votes: 1,311
42. Psychonauts 2 (2021 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The game will pick up after the conclusion of Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin, following Zanotto's rescue, the team returns to Psychonaut Headquarters, where Raz discovers that the ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Schafer | Stars: Richard Steven Horvitz, Carson Annable, Krizia Bajos, Poonam Basu
Votes: 912
43. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (1993 Video Game)
T | Adventure, Drama, Horror
Gabriel Knight, the owner of a New Orleans, Louisiana bookstore, gets tangled up in the investigation of a series of voodoo-related murders currently plaguing the city.
Director: Jane Jensen | Stars: Tim Curry, Mark Hamill, Leah Remini, Virginia Capers
Votes: 749
44. Crypt of the Vampire (1964)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror
Count Karnstein sends for a doctor to help his sick daughter Laura. Her nurse believes she is possessed by the spirit of a dead ancestor, Carmilla.
Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Christopher Lee, Adriana Ambesi, Ursula Davis, José Campos
Votes: 1,212
45. The Dain Curse (1978)
360 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Private eye investigates diamond theft, and becomes involved with an ancient family curse.
Stars: Tom Bower, David Canary, Malachy McCourt, Hattie Winston
Votes: 361
46. Witchcraft (1964)
Not Rated | 79 min | Horror
When her grave is disturbed by modern-day land developers, a 300-year-old witch is accidentally resurrected and terrorizes an English village.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Jack Hedley, Jill Dixon, Viola Keats
Votes: 1,542
47. The Blancheville Monster (1963)
Unrated | 88 min | Horror
The beautiful young daughter of a crazed count fears that she will fall victim to the family curse - to be sacrificed to fulfill an ancient family legend.
Director: Alberto De Martino | Stars: Gérard Tichy, Leo Anchóriz, Ombretta Colli, Helga Liné
Votes: 840
48. Twice-Told Tales (1963)
Approved | 120 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
Three horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the first story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of himself, his fiancee ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Brett Halsey, Beverly Garland
Votes: 3,570
49. The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Thriller
Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this classic film follows a family feud between two brothers and an ancient curse that haunts them.
Director: Joe May | Stars: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Dick Foran
Votes: 1,519
50. Adam & Steve (2005)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Follows two New York city couples -- one heterosexual and one gay who explore the peaks and the valleys of their respective relationships.
Director: Craig Chester | Stars: Craig Chester, Malcolm Gets, Parker Posey, Chris Kattan
Votes: 3,277 | Gross: $0.31M