THEME EXPLORATION

cursed grounds

12 films · 2 directors

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FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006 · Gore Verbinski
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
2017 · Espen Sandberg & Joachim Rønning
Tales of Manhattan
Tales of Manhattan
1942 · Julien Duvivier
The Gorgon
The Gorgon
1964 · Terence Fisher
Evil Dead
Evil Dead
2013 · Fede Álvarez
Baron Blood
Baron Blood
1972 · Mario Bava
My Soul to Take
My Soul to Take
2010 · Wes Craven
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast
2014 · Christophe Gans
The Monkey
The Monkey
2025 · Osgood Perkins
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1998 · Takashi Shimizu
Dead Before Dawn
Dead Before Dawn
2012 · April Mullen
Djinn
Djinn
2013 · Tobe Hooper
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Ari Aster USA

His films like Hereditary and Midsommar explore how physical locations become vessels for family trauma and ancestral curses that trap characters in inescapable cycles of horror.

 Robert Eggers USA

Films like The Lighthouse and The Witch depict how desolate, forsaken locations amplify psychological deterioration and supernatural malevolence, turning landscape itself into a curse.