10 Most Powerful Horror Movie Curses

There are a lot of horror films out there with curses of varying degrees of power. Whether they kill just one person like in Drag Me To Hell, kill whole towns of unborn children as in Impetigore or even inhabit random bits of clothing like in Slaxx or In Fabric, the possibilities are endless.

Curses are always a fun topic in movies, with the tension of knowing impending doom is coming and the struggle to figure out how to save oneself.

In the instance that you don't know where the curse has come from, or even sometimes that you're cursed at all, things can get pretty out of hand with bodies piling up very quickly.

Taking a step away from the most well-known curse films (like Ring or The Grudge), in this we'll take a look at some very powerful and pretty terrifying curses that don't get enough attention.

With everything from a cursed corpse to an old witch's vindictive malediction, we've got you covered with some horrible hexes. You certainly wouldn't want to find yourself falling victim to any of these imprecations...

Unrest has a similar vibe to the recent (and pretty darn successful) The Autopsy of Jane Doe. Like the aforementioned flick, the bringer of the curse is a mysterious corpse. Those who disrespect or otherwise upset the corpse seem to soon meet their ends.

A group of medical students are assigned the body to dissect for class, and quickly notice that something is wrong with it. It is covered in scars from seemingly self-inflicted wounds, and pretty much from the offset our protagonist Alison feels uncomfortable in its presence.

Eventually the reason for the curse’s potency is revealed: the body belongs to that of a deceased archeologist, who once uncovered a mass grave in Brazil and thus angered the Aztec god of fertility. For the crime of disturbing the bodies of those once sacrificed to the god, the archeologist suffered a curse in life that stuck to her body after death.

Alison does her best amongst all the chaos to set things right and lay the body and its curse to rest, but when the big guys upstairs are involved sometimes it’s just too far above a medical student’s pay grade...