Tarot and 4 Other Recent Horror Movies About Curses to Watch on Halloween
There's no better time to dive deep into the dark family secrets.
It's fall outside, which means it's time to watch horror movies, go to antique shops in search of strange things with a special aura, burn candles and read tarot cards.
You should do all this with caution: the characters of the movies in this list prove that playing with the supernatural can be extremely dangerous.
1. Tarot, 2024
A group of friends is celebrating a birthday in a rented mansion. The alcohol they brought runs out in a few hours, and they go down to the locked basement, where instead of bottles of wine they find an old, hand-painted deck of tarot cards.
Haley, who loves the esoteric, warns that they can't lay someone else's deck – it's a bad omen. But the friends can't wait to find out their futures.
It's easy to guess that all the predictions will come true, but not in the way they would like. Impatient fate takes its first victim the very next day.
2. Exhuma, 2024
Wealthy South Korean Park Ji-yong and his family have moved to the US, where he learns that his newborn son is seriously ill and doctors cannot help him. So Park hires a popular Seoul shaman, Lee Hwa-rim, and her assistant to heal his family.
The shaman recognizes a terrible curse. She suggests that the Parks exhume their ancestor, who is buried alone on a dark mountain. At the same time, they have to pay a lot of money, because this business cannot be done without a geomancer and Feng Shui master Kim Sang-deok and an undertaker Yeong-geun.
3. Malicious, 2018
Mathematician Adam gets a job as a university teacher and moves with his pregnant wife Lisa to a secluded mansion in the woods, closer to the campus. The couple does not enjoy the idyll and romance of rural life for long.
As it turns out, the house is possessed by demons. Almost immediately, Lisa begins to be haunted by supernatural phenomena. Out of fear, the woman has a miscarriage. But the cries of her spiritual pain attract the attention of a much more powerful force from the other world.
4. The Funeral Home, 2020
Bernardo runs a family funeral parlor in his home. He, his wife, and his stepdaughter, Irina, have become accustomed to living with ghosts and strictly follow the rules so that neither the dead nor the living disturb each other.
But as the family's conflicts grow, the dead become increasingly restless. Bernardo communicates with a ghost pretending to be his dead father. The dead are constantly breaking into Irina's room and waking her up at night. Contacts with the other world become more intense, and then Bernardo calls in the psychic Ramona.
5. Hereditary, 2018
Annie is not a happy person. Every member of her family has suffered from severe mental illness. Her schizophrenic brother committed suicide, and her domineering mother, who bullied Annie, fell into dementia. After their deaths, Annie finally breathes a sigh of relief.
But soon Charlie, Annie's daughter, dies horribly. She blames her son Peter for her death. Hatred corrodes the family from within, leaving deep scars, confusing thoughts and waking her at night. But Annie soon learns that behind all the tragedies in her life is the work of occultists.