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[–] [email protected] 89 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Cursed artifacts that compel a person to buy/acquire them are among my favorite horror tropes.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 13 hours ago

call that findoom

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago

I'm currently reading Ruin Road by Lamar Giles which uses this trope.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Is there a good short story or anything with this theme? I love that idea but don’t know if I’d want to read a whole book about it lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Needful Things kinda hits this. It’s a novel, but it’s Stephen King so it goes quick.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

Well, I know this is a somewhat hot take, but the 2013 Evil Dead reimagining is really good. Suuuuper violent, but all done with practical effects. Really cool. And they did this whole “evil item” thing really well. I think it’s done better than any other movie I’ve seen with the trope. The whole time, one of the characters is being just beaten to shit but they’re clinging to life with everything they have because they’re so scared of what awaits them in hell.

That movie stuck with me for a few reasons, but the effect they managed to get with the whole sense of doom for these characters was so well done. Accomplished with a few choice lines and scenes that are just brutal and, well, evil.

If you can handle the gore, I recommend it