10 Scariest Cursed Items In Horror Movie History
7. The Monkey's Paw - The Monkey's Paw
Adapted to film both in 1948 and 2013, The Monkey's Paw is a story that many will have experienced even if not on the cinema screen. From The Simpson's Treehouse of Horror, to Are You Afraid of the Dark?, to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the idea of a cursed monkey's paw able to grant three wishes has appeared on screen for generations. And so has it's crazy consequences.
The paw will give you anything you want, at the price of an unknown punishment for meddling with fate. Wishing someone back from the dead as people so often do in these stories seems to be the one that really goes wrong, with creatures not intended to walk the Earth climbing out their graves and upsetting everyone in the process.
That such an innocuous item has so much power is the scariest thought here, and that you never really know what price you'll pay to get your wish. It really goes without saying: don't trust a piece of magic monkey jerky.