Curse

9 works in the index tagged CURSE, across every medium we score — film, television, print, audio and objects.

The Omen

Richard Donner · 1976 · Film

Stately, humourless, and it kills people in ways you remember for thirty years.

Pet Sematary

Stephen King · 1983 · Book

King's bleakest. He sat on it for years because it upset him.

Ring

Koji Suzuki · 1991 · Book

The novel is closer to a procedural. Colder than the film.

Ringu

Hideo Nakata · 1998 · Film

A curse that spreads like media, because it is media.

Final Destination

James Wong · 2000 · Film

Death as a Rube Goldberg machine. Cheerfully, elaborately explicit.

The Ring

Gore Verbinski · 2002 · Film

The American one, and better than it is given credit for.

It Follows

David Robert Mitchell · 2014 · Film

A rule you can't argue with, walking toward you at a constant speed.

The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones · 2020 · Book

A debt coming due across ten years and four men.

Smile

Parker Finn · 2022 · Film

A curse that spreads by witness. Meaner than the marketing let on.