THE
CURSE
CAST
Wil Wheaton, Claude
Atkins, Malcom Danare
DIRECTOR
David Keith
YEAR OF
RELEASE
1987
The Curse
is a low budget, badly lit, badly acted, and
poorly finished movie- with a good story as
it's backbone. The plot is based on H.P.
Lovecraft's "The Color out of Space", and is
the tale of a young boy named Zachary who
lives with his abusive father, harlot mother
and siblings on a very amish-like farm,
although the amish part is never specified. A
meteor comes from space in the middle of the
night and gets in the water supply, resulting
in a bad crop and killer farm animals. The
mother eats some of this bad crop and becomes
a deformed killer mutant that they have to
lock in the cellar in an akward silence.
Meanwhile young Zachary struggles with his
father and local cops investigating takes
most of the time up. The ending is an awful,
explosion-of-colored-lights-into-where-do-we-
go-from-here finish, that left me bored. The
whole movie drudges along way too slow and
the effects ain't that great. It's definately
a skip-don't-rent, and only earns a 2
(instead of a 1) on overall because the
storyline is pretty fresh (although there are
some similarly plotted films- see one segment
of Creepshow and 1965's Die Monster Die). The
Curse has a couple of sequels, all of which
have nothing to do with the original, and all
of which are also skipable.
SHOCK/SUSPENSE
2
GORE
2
CAMP
2
OVERALL
2
