10 Most Terrifying Horror Movie Curses

10. Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark - The Cursed Storybook

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark finally came out in the summer 2019, after already showing us pretty much all their monsters through the marketing campaign. This was an... interesting move to say the least, but fortunately didn’t take away from the main essence of the film.

Basically, a group of friends happen across a cursed book belonging to a girl who died long ago. Stories begin to appear in the book, narrating in real time as the friends are tormented or killed by creatures spawned by the curse.

Grisly fates await the kids, ranging from a violent transformation into a human scarecrow to being absorbed by a huge, globulous beast in the world’s least comforting cuddle.

What makes this curse so scary is not just the way you’re forced to read as your friends are hunted, but each time a story begins to appear you’re just waiting, expecting your name to be the next on the list.

The monsters range from horrifying to vaguely comical (I’m looking at you, blob-hug lady), but the idea is solid and you can’t deny you would be quaking in your boots watching that haunted lettering appear.