Curses can go by any name you like - voodoo, hexes, superstitious heebie-jeebies and so on, but the purpose is always the same: unimaginable suffering upon whoever the curse is placed upon. Hollywood's inspired the nightmares of millions with tales of the undead and the supernatural, and in honor of the latest film in the curse series, Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell, we've put together a list of the Ten Most Evil Movie Curses you've ever seen! Grab some popcorn, a voodoo doll, a ouija board and dig in.

Drag Me To Hell

The latest from cinematic wizard Sam Raimi centers on a loan officer who's been ordered to evict an old woman from her home, and finds herself on the receiving end of an unthinkable a supernatural curse as a result - one which turns her life into a literal living hell. Desperate to save her own soul, she turns to a seer to get rid of this horrific curse- before it's too late.

Thinner

An early novel from Stephen King’s alter ego Richard Bachman, Thinner is all that a curse movie should be. Moments after Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke) is acquitted for vehicular manslaughter, a 106 year-old gypsy named Tadzu Lemke (Michael Constantine) brushes against him outside the courthouse and whispers the word "Thinner" in his ear. Soon after, Halleck begins to notice that he's dropping pounds at a near-liposuction rate. Terrified by he realization that he’d been cursed by the ancient gypsy, Billy sinks into a nightmare of selfish desperation that sucks everyone who knows and loves him into the hellish reality he's brought upon himself.

Hellraiser

Clive Barker's directing debut centers on the horrifying tale of a man who discovers a mysterious puzzle box in North Africa. He brings the box home and solves the puzzle, and hooked chains immediately fly out of the box and dig into his skin. The leader of the demon race Cenobites, Pinhead (Doug Bradley), picks up the box and twists it back into its original state, and the room goes back to normal. Later, a husband and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature hiding upstairs - something unfortunately familiar to the newlyweds. He was brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor, and soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body - something the Cenobites do not approve of.