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A family tormented by paranormal and demonic activities in their home After rejecting a warlock's request to buy their house
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| New York TimesWalter GoodmanIf you need to see the worms, sores and nasty oozing glop for yourself, they're at the Criterion and other movie houses. |
| User ReviewCharlie CYet another neglected, forgotten classic, screaming out for a DVD release. Lucio Fulci did the gore effects for it. Unknown to all but serious 80s horror enthusiasts. Based on the HP Lovecraft story Color Out of Space. |
| User ReviewHeidi KCreepy movie, saw it in the theaters when I was in 6th grade. |
| User ReviewDean MPleasantly surprised with this film. I wasn't sure what to expect but there are some very entertaining moments as well as a movie that keeps its energy throughout the film. I was presently surprised after seeing this. |
| User ReviewJason DAwesome little underrated 80's gem with a cheesy alien meteor (you can see the prop stick holding it still!!) crashing on to a farm and causing all sorts of weird shit for this hillbilly bible-belt farm. We need more films like this!!! |
| User ReviewMs Amanda JThe second-best film adaptation of Lovecraft's "The Color Out of Space" is profoundly flawed but tremendous horror fun, thanks in no small part to the involvement of Lucio Fulci. While his official role was producer, but his fingerprints are all over the look of the film, from the cinematography to the liberal use of maggots (well, mealworms; they look better on screen), pus-oozing wounds, and anti-religious sentiment. "The Curse" is set on a farm in Tellico Plain, Tennessee. The Cranes are struggling to get by. Claude Akins is deadpan, growlingly perfect as bible-thumping halfwit father Nathan Crane who also frequently thumps wife Frances and stepson Zack (Will Wheaton). When a meteorite strikes the farm and melts into the water supply, the crops swell with inner goo and the farm animals go crazy and also swell with goo. In one memorable scene, the sores of an infected cow explode, showering Nathan and his son with maggots, pus and bugs. Yum. Frances degenerates rapidly, sewing a sock to her hand and soon getting "nasty and ugly," turning into a slimy, mummified-looking monster that the family locks in the barn. As Nathan and his bullying son also degenerate, Zack tries to save his young sister, Alice. Much oozing, screaming, and stabbings with pitchforks ensue before the climax, when we see Frances as little more than a puddle of gray-green goop with eyeballs and the house itself flies apart in a manner reminiscent of "The Fall of the House of Usher." There are plenty of little technical goofs; one can see the stick from which the meteorite hangs as it flies in for impact. Models are used in many scenes and they're not too convincing, particular in the scenes of impact and the house falling apart. Some of the acting falls short, too. Will Wheaton isn't particularly good here, nor is Malcolm Danare as Cyrus, Nathan's pudgy, over-aggressive son. Despite this, "The Curse" is too much fun for horror fans in general, and Lovecraft fans in particular, to miss. It goes in more for mood and gross-out than gore, and it never takes itself too seriously. Worth seeing just for the dinner scene and learning how much can really go wrong with produce. If you liked Fulci's "City of the Living Dead/Gates of Hell," you'll enjoy "The Curse," too. Not quite as good as "Colour from the Dark" but better than "Die Monster Die." |
| User ReviewGlenn CThe Curse is yet another gem from the 80s that brings back a lot of memories. Watching it again as an adult I was 11 years old again and it still hit all of the right notes... although, a few FX left me stunned at how blatantly bad they were. Its a classic 50's B-movie based on a story by HP Lovecraft about a meteorite crash landing on a farm in rural America and seeping a strange goo into the town's water supply. The locals start to succumb to madness and the expected horror kicks in with savage deaths and people frantically running for their lives. I'm not usually one to point out a movie's flaws but the initial meteor crash is spectacularly bad. You can see the giant arm/rod attached to the styrofoam ball as it plummets through a plume of fog. Almost so bad it's good and when you see that Lucio Fulci is attached as producer and assisted with the FX department, it makes sense! LOL. Will Wheaton stars and I reckon almost every movie he was in as a kid, he performed scenes in just his underwear... its as unnerving as the story itself. With all of it's flaws I reckon that The Curse still delivers and has some fantastic poster art. |
| User ReviewJoey TThe movie info starts by saying "This awful horror film." I didn't think it was bad, just a little slow. It's worth watching once. Claude Akins is the man! |
| User ReviewAD VA low budget reworking of H P Lovecraft's 'The Colour out of Space', which manages a few good scenes in and around the blighted farm. Unfortunately, the acting is fairly suspect for the most part, and it gets actively stupid by the end. |
| User ReviewJonathan LOf all the Hollywood movies based on Lovecraft stories, this one is the most accurate adaption... and yet it wasn't even credited. |