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51. Red: Werewolf Hunter (2010 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 88 min | Fantasy, Horror
The modern-day descendant of Little Red Riding Hood brings her fiancé home to meet her family and reveal their occupation as werewolf hunters, but after he is bitten by a werewolf, she must protect him from her own family.
Director: Sheldon Wilson | Stars: Felicia Day, Kavan Smith, Stephen McHattie, Greg Bryk
Votes: 2,162
52. The Undying Monster (1942)
Not Rated | 63 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Surviving members of an aristocratic English family are threatened by a legendary monster when they venture out on chilly, foggy nights.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: James Ellison, Heather Angel, John Howard, Bramwell Fletcher
Votes: 1,553
53. The Mill on the Floss (1997 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Lawyer Wakem takes away the mill on the river Floss from Edward Tulliver, whose ancestors owned it for 300 years, and becomes the worst enemy of Tulliver's family. When Edward's daughter, ... See full summary »
Director: Graham Theakston | Stars: Emily Watson, Cheryl Campbell, James Frain, Bernard Hill
Votes: 597
54. Savage Hunt of King Stakh (1980)
134 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends.
Director: Valeri Rubinchik | Stars: Boris Plotnikov, Elena Dimitrova, Albert Filozov, Roman Filippov
Votes: 649
55. Dead Bride (2022)
83 min | Horror, Thriller
After her father's death, Alyson, her partner Richard and their baby return to her childhood home.
Director: Francesco Picone | Stars: Jennifer Mischiati, Christoph Hülsen, David White, Douglas Dean
Votes: 280
56. The Brides Wore Blood (1972)
R | 84 min | Horror
The DeLorca family has been cursed ever since Carlos' grandfather was interrupted while conjuring evil spirits. The curse makes each DeLorca son turn into a vampire, and upon the birth of ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Favorite | Stars: Dolores Friedline, Chuck Faulkner, Jan Sherman, Dolores Starling
Votes: 206
57. 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: 1,524
58. 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: 848
59. La llorona (1933)
73 min | Horror, Mystery
In modern day Mexico, a man on the street is supernaturally killed after hearing the eerie sound of a wailing woman. We then arrive at the manor of an upper class family, who are ... See full summary »
Director: Ramón Peón | Stars: Ramón Pereda, Virginia Zurí, Carlos Orellana, Adriana Lamar
Votes: 349
60. The Cursed (I) (2010)
88 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
A supernatural thriller set in a cozy Tennessee town where Sheriff Jimmy Muldoon and younger brother, Deputy Lloyd Muldoon, have a firm grasp of law and order until a stranger, Denny White,... See full summary »
Director: Joel Bender | Stars: Louis Mandylor, Brad Thornton, Costas Mandylor, Francesca Cecil
Votes: 2,114
61. The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery (1995 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Drama, Horror
Shortly after moving to Rittersburg to take over duties as the lone "Schattenjager", Gabriel Knight is called by the townsfolk to investigate the killing of a child believed to be caused by a werewolf.
Director: Will Binder | Stars: Dean Erickson, Joanne Takahashi, Russell Mitchell, Peter J. Lucas
Votes: 863
62. Are We Dead Yet (2019)
97 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A robbery goes horrifyingly wrong when five have-a-go criminals are forced to take refuge from the police in an old castle. What starts out as 'one last job' quickly becomes a hilarious, fun-filled journey of ghostly misfortunes.
Director: Fredi 'Kruga' Nwaka | Stars: Jessica-Jane Stafford, Khali Best, Paul Danan, Tim Faraday
Votes: 300
63. That Man Oh Soo (2018)
Fantasy, Romance
Oh Soo is an IT company technician as well as a cafe owner and barista. He is also a matchmaking cupid who has the power to pair lovers together. Oh Soo can detect people's unseen emotions ... See full summary »
Stars: Jong-Hyun Lee, Kim So-eun, Kang Tae-oh, Heo Jeong-min
Votes: 303
64. 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: 1,219
65. House of the Black Death (1971)
GP | 89 min | Horror
Two brothers, both warlocks, use their own powers and covens of witches to battle over the family fortune.
Directors: Harold Daniels, Reginald Le Borg, Jerry Warren | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Andrea King, Tom Drake
Votes: 366
66. Immortal Sins (1991)
R | 80 min | Horror, Thriller
Michael Alvarez and his wife Susan have inherited an ancient Spanish castle, unaware that it comes with a horrendous curse. Michael is soon lured into a deadly romance with Diana, that tortures the family with immortal sins.
Director: Hervé Hachuel | Stars: Cliff De Young, Maryam d'Abo, Shari Shattuck, Tony Isbert
Votes: 173
67. Haunted by Her Past (1987 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 100 min | Horror
The evil spirit of one of her ancestors possesses a young woman who inadvertently comes into possession of a haunted mirror.
Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Susan Lucci, Marcia Strassman, Robin Thomas, Finola Hughes
Votes: 174
68. The Witch's Curse (1962)
91 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.
Director: Riccardo Freda | Stars: Kirk Morris, Hélène Chanel, Vira Silenti, Angelo Zanolli
Votes: 525
69. 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: 751
70. Kaidan (2007)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river ... See full summary »
Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Kikunosuke Onoe, Hitomi Kuroki, Mao Inoue, Kumiko Asô
Votes: 1,215
71. The House of Usher (2006)
R | 81 min | Drama, Thriller
Sinister thriller based on Edgar Allan Poe's classic story. Jill uncovers a terrifying secret at the funeral of her best friend who disappeared years earlier and whose twin brother was Jill's lover.
Director: Hayley Cloake | Stars: Austin Nichols, Izabella Miko, Beth Grant, Stephen Fischer
Votes: 756
72. Cry of the Werewolf (1944)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A young woman raised by gypsies hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to protect.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Nina Foch, Stephen Crane, Osa Massen, Blanche Yurka
Votes: 1,197
73. Lacuna (I) (2021)
91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A troubled family deals with disturbing and horrifying changes in their lives after a serious accident unravels dark mysteries from the past.
Director: Rodrigo Lages | Stars: Lorena Comparato, Laila Zaid, Guilherme Prates, Kika Kalache
Votes: 84
74. The Body Beneath (1970)
82 min | Horror
A family of vampires takes over an estate known as Carfax Abbey. Since inbreeding is destroying the family line, they need new blood to keep the family going, so they set out to find new sources.
Director: Andy Milligan | Stars: Gavin Reed, Jackie Skarvellis, Berwick Kaler, Susan Heard
Votes: 605
75. The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
Approved | 70 min | Horror, Mystery
Anthropologist Jonathan Drake believes that the men of his family have been cursed for generations by the native South American tribe he studies. Shortly after his brother, discovers one of the tribe's shrunken heads, he's found murdered.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Eduard Franz, Valerie French, Grant Richards, Henry Daniell
Votes: 1,248
76. The Wanting Mare (2020)
89 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
In Whithren, a line of women pass a recurring dream through multiple generations.
Director: Nicholas Ashe Bateman | Stars: Jordan Monaghan, Yasamin Keshtkar, Christine Kellogg-Darrin, Edmond Cofie
Votes: 590
77. Expiration Date (2006)
94 min | Comedy, Romance
Charlie Silvercould III carries around a family curse passed down from his grandfather; death by a milk truck on his 25th birthday. With eight days left, Charlie accepts his fate and starts... See full summary »
Director: Rick Stevenson | Stars: Robert A. Guthrie, Sascha Knopf, Dee Wallace, David Keith
Votes: 437
78. Curse of the God Dog (1977)
103 min | Horror
A man looking to mine uranium in a rural Japanese village has the wicked curse of the Dog God set upon him.
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Shin'ya Ôwada, Emiko Yamauchi, Masami Hasegawa, Jun Izumi
Votes: 191
79. The Depths (1957)
66 min | Horror
A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur ... See full summary »
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa | Stars: Katsuko Wakasugi, Takashi Wada, Noriko Kitazawa, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 299
80. Voices (2007)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
This creepy, supernatural thriller revolves around the paranoid belief that those dearest to you may want you dead.
Director: Ki-hwan Oh | Stars: Yoon Jin-seo, Park Gi-woong, Lee Ki-woo, Yu-seon Ham
Votes: 1,416
81. Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It (1970)
92 min | Drama, Thriller
When a young man named Enrico comes back home for his fathers funeral he discovers his brother Cesare and his sister Verde may be plotting his death.
Director: Salvatore Samperi | Stars: Jean Sorel, Marilù Tolo, Maurizio Degli Esposti, Gigi Ballista
Votes: 152
82. La mano de un hombre muerto (1962)
Approved | 95 min | Horror
When violent crime strikes a tiny hamlet, the townsfolk suspect the distant relative of a sadistic 17th century baron who cursed the village.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Ana Castor, Howard Vernon, Paula Martel, Georges Rollin
Votes: 666
83. La dinastía de Dracula (1980)
85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In the 16th century, the Inquisition condemns Count Orloff, a vampire and sorcerer to death. In the 19th century, the vampire Madame Kostoff arrives in Mexico and buys the house where the vampire was buried and revives him.
Directors: Alfredo B. Crevenna, Claudia Becker | Stars: Fabián Aranza, Silvia Manríquez, Rubén Rojo, Magda Guzmán
Votes: 96
84. Jennifer's Shadow (2004)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Shaken by the recent, unexpected death of her twin sister, Jennifer travels to Buenos Aires to execute the will and claim her inheritance. There, she encounters her remarkably well-preserved grandmother, who might be hiding something.
Directors: Daniel de la Vega, Pablo Parés | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Gina Philips, Duilio Marzio, Nicolás Pauls
Votes: 595
85. La Llorona (1960)
75 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Felipe and Margarita get married and have a boy named Jorgito. Her uncle Gerardo tell them about a curse that affects the first born boy in the family.
Director: René Cardona | Stars: María Elena Marqués, Eduardo Fajardo, Luz María Aguilar, Carlos López Moctezuma
Votes: 148
86. Poslední aristokratka (2019)
110 min | Comedy
The picturesque story of the Czech-American family of Count Frantisek Antonín Kostka of Kostka who learns that his aristocratic fore bearers have left him their ancient family seat - the Castle of Kostka.
Director: Jirí Vejdelek | Stars: Hynek Cermák, Tatiana Dyková, Yvona Stolarová, Martin Pechlát
Votes: 328
87. Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse (1983 TV Movie)
G | 67 min | Animation, Mystery
In this animated tale, detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate a cursed family.
Director: Richard Slapczynski | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Ron Haddrick, Earle Cross, Helen Morse
Votes: 204
88. Theatre Fantastique (2014– )
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
"Theatre Fantastique" by Hollinsworth Productions, is a non-hosted US horror anthology series that ran in 2014 and 2017 on YouTube, with a total of 10 episodes.
Stars: Christopher Pennock, Kelsey Hewlett, Elyse Ashton, Nathan Wilson
Votes: 22
89. The Fall of the House of Usher (1982)
15 min | Animation, Short, Horror
In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse: The brother's ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Star: Petr Cepek
Votes: 795
90. Rumic World: The Laughing Target (1987 Video)
Unrated | 51 min | Animation, Horror, Mystery
Yuzuru was an average teenager who had almost forgotten that he was betrothed to Azusa(a girl)when he was only 6! Now arriving to claim what she feels is rightfully hers, only Satomi(... See full summary »
Director: Motosuke Takahashi | Stars: Yoku Shioya, Iyo Matsumoto, Hiromi Tsuru, Toshiko Sawada
Votes: 190
91. Skin Crawl (2007 Video)
R | 75 min | Horror
A young woman named Margaret is brutally murdered, victim of her husband's cold-blooded plot to inherit her wealth. An ages-old curse lying dormant for generations will manifest itself before his very eyes and those of Margaret's killers.
Director: Justin Wingenfeld | Stars: Julian Wells, Kevin G. Shinnick, Debbie Rochon, Armand Anthony
Votes: 245
92. Impossible Love (1977)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance
Rich Spanish landowner Alvaro is torn between his wife Elvira and two other women in his life. He's also worried about the fact that both his father and grandfather were murdered by Spanish revolutionaries in the house he's inherited.
Director: José Antonio Nieves Conde | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Sara Lezana, Carmen de la Maza, Paola Senatore
Votes: 37
93. The Green Chamber of Linnais (1945)
91 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A nobleman in 1830's Finland has to contend with stuck-up relatives, his daughters' suitors, dark secrets from his family's past, mistaken identities and a haunted wing of his mansion.
Director: Valentin Vaala | Stars: Rauli Tuomi, Regina Linnanheimo, Kaija Rahola, Paavo Jännes
Votes: 176
94. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room (1931)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance
A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
Director: William A. O'Connor | Stars: William Farnum, Tom Santschi, Patty Lou Lynd, Robert Frazer
Votes: 137
95. Magic Kitchen (2004)
105 min | Romance, Comedy
Yau is on the lookout for love in modern day Hong Kong in spite of her family curse
Director: Chi-Ngai Lee | Stars: Sheila Chan, Sammi Cheng, Nicola Cheung, Stephen Fung
Votes: 551
96. Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny (1997 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
On her death bed, Scotia, witch of the Dark Army, bestowed her evil twisted powers upon her son, Luther- but there were complications... Now Luther uncontrollably shape-shifts (from human ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph D. Kucan | Stars: Paige Rowland, Paul Bastardo, Sean Masterson, Andrew Craig
Votes: 87
97. The Inheritor (1990)
R | 83 min | Horror
When her twin sister dies in an area called Windsor Lake, a young woman teams up with a local cop to try to find out what happened.
Director: Brian Savegar | Stars: Lisa McGuire, John Patrick Rice, Barnaby Spring, Dan Haggerty
Votes: 51
98. Nabbie's Love (1999)
92 min | Drama
The film tells the story of a small community on a small island in Okinawa, Japan. Especially it focusses on the story of a grandma named Nabbie, but although it's her story told in the ... See full summary »
Director: Yûji Nakae | Stars: Naomi Nishida, Jun Murakami, Tomi Taira, Reiko Kaneshima
Votes: 296
99. Darovi moje rodjake Marije (1970 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama, Horror
Follow the fate of a deceased woman, Maria, who once was a very beautiful girl whose beauty became deadly to her and the people around her.
Director: Djordje Kadijevic | Stars: Ljiljana Krstic, Neda Spasojevic, Slobodan 'Cica' Perovic, Ljubomir Cipranic
Votes: 42
100. Jumalan myrsky (1940)
82 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Valentin Vaala | Stars: Irma Seikkula, Olavi Reimas, Simo Osa, Sylvi Palo
Votes: 43