The Curse

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<B></B></div> <div> <B>1987/Color/92 Min./Media Home Entertainment, Inc. & Trans World Entertainment/Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.........David Keith (Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......David Chaskin</B></div> <div> <B>Music............John Debney</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........Ovidio G. Assonitis (Beyond the Door, Madhouse)</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producers.....Moshe Diamant & Ovidio G. Assonitis</B></div> <div> <B>Make-up by Frank Russell</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Zack......Wil Wheaton (Stand by Me, Star Trek: Next Generation-TV)</B></div> <div> <B>Willis....John Schneider (Dukes of Hazzard, Eddie Macon's Run)</B></div> <div> <B>Nathan....Claude Akins (The Night Stalker, Tarantulas-Deadly Cargo)</B></div> <div> <B>Cyrus.....Malcolm Danare</B></div> <div> <B>Forbes....Cooper Huckabee (The Funhouse, Night Eyes)</B></div> <div> <B>Alice.....Amy Wheaton </B></div> <div> <B>Davidson..Steve Carlisle </B></div> <div> <B>Frances...Kathleen Jordan Gregory</B></div> <div> <B>Esther....Hope North</B></div> <div> <B>Mike......Steve Davis</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique</B><B>: When a meteor crashes on the farm of holy farmer Akins, his crops and family become contaminated. Son Wheaton and his adult friends are the last line of defense against his crazed family and an army of irresponsible real estate speculators. This loose adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's </B><I><B>The Color Out of Space</B></I><B> would not be such a bad movie if it weren't its coopting of some of horror's most glaringly crummy tropes. Why does the house have to collapse at the end? Houses that collapse just because its the end (Burnt Offerings) are not a good sign. Why do we see Willis affected by the water at the beginning instead of the end, when we know who he is and why he went crazy? That will be enough to leave most viewers unhappily surprised at the very end. On the other hand, Claude Akins is scary as the religious zealot farmer on the brink of bankruptcy and Kathleen Jordan Gregory delivers a rare subtle horror movie performance as the oppressed/repressed housewife turned sinner turned mutant monster. The film has a nice pace and the simplicity of the scares is extremely effective as we can all relate to financial ruin, a worm in an apple or a bad skin condition. This makes the film fun to watch until it becomes apparent that the filmmakers don't know where to go from there. For Wesley Crusher haters no good news. This film was finished before Wheaton became obnoxious, indeed, he's great. A remake of the 1965 </B><I><B>Die, Monster, Die! </B></I><B>with Boris Karloff. Followed by three sequels related by title only.</B></div> <div> <B></B></div> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Police surround and arrest a young man whose face is bubbling up. "It's in the water!" he screams as all around him people are enjoying the convenience of running tap water. Six months earlier, things were much more simple in Tellico Plains, Tennessee, where young Zack lives on a farm with his little sister Alice, mother Frances, evil stepbrother Cyrus, and Calvinist stepfather, Nathan.</B></div> <div> <B>Charlie Davidson, a real estate speculator is pressuring Nathan hard to sell the family farm but Nathan stubbornly keeps his farm, urges his repressed wife to keep her shirt buttoned and to stop babying Zack. Although "It ain't proper for a woman to be making advances", she gazes longingly at the burly hired hand until she meets him in the night at the same time a banging shutter and storm wake Nathan and Zack just as a glowing meteor crashes to earth. As Zack investigates, cuckold Nathan encounters Frances returning. The "university-educated" neighbor, Dr. Allen Forbes, advises everyone to stay away from it until experts have seen it and leaves Frances to face her cuckold husband. Nathan isn't talking. It isn't long before Charlie stops by Allen's practice concerned that publicity will drive down real estate prices. The doctor chips off a specimen which causes a brown liquid to gush out of the thing. Allen can't determine the nature of the thing with his experiments, only that it is not radioactive. Zack observes it at night as it reduces itself to slime and oozes off in every direction. The doctor surmises the thing was airline "doodoo" which froze as it descended and melted overnight. Everyone has a good laugh and they go about the business of watering the produce. A Tennessee State Water official, Carl Willis, takes up residence in a local boarding house while Frances is marveling at her vegetables which look spectacular, but are filled with a vile smelling red slime. She hasn't yet noticed the large boil on her left cheek. Charlie, who suspects that the state might want to construct a reservoir at Tellico Springs rushes to meet Willis and offers to drive him around the lots he had wanted to inspect. Dr. Allen's golddigger wife can't wait to sell their land and move to the city. Zack and Alice don't like the food and particularly not the water from the new well but Nathan orders them to finish both. No, despite the lord's bounty on the vine, all is not well at home. Mother is dazed and Cyrus is nearly trampled by an angry horse and Alice is nearly pecked to death by chickens that have brown liquid instead of blood. Nathan's apples are more beautiful and abundant than ever before, regrettably, now they are full of wriggling worms. The doctor notices that Frances looks a bit piqued and the water tastes lousy. Frances, however, is more than a bit piqued that evening when she tosses the menfolk around the house like rag dolls. She also has a few more of those boils on her face. Nathan wont let the doctor see her, but on his way out, Allen takes a sample from the well. When Carl Willis stops in for a glass of water at Nathan's he is attacked by Frances with a carving knife but saved at the last second by Nathan, who throws him out. Cyrus also has a boil and the cattle are covered with them. Nathan looks on with horror as one cow explodes, spraying him and Cyrus with bugs and worms. Nathan's theory is that God is punishing them for Frances' sins. Frances finally is reduced to a yellow slime-puking, raving monster with claws and tries to kill Zack with a poker. Cyrus isn't far behind as he cheers on his father who wrestles Frances to the cellar where he locks her up. Boil-faced Alice can only cry at the spectacle. The scientists believe they have found a previously unknown element which is actually changing the molecular structure of the water. When Charlie and Hester Forbes descend on Nathan's farm to force a deal, Nathan's mutant dogs kill Hester as Charlie takes refuge in the occupied cellar where Francis rips his chest out. Zack meanwhile has put himself and his ailing sister on a strict diet of store-bought foods which enrages his now boil-faced stepfather who tries to kill him. Upstairs, yellow slime-puking Cyrus is after Alice and Monster Francis is trying to bust out of her room when Dr. Forbes finally arrives only to be hammered by angry monster Nathan. Nathan turns his rage on Zack just when Carl Willis arrives for the final showdown with the boil-faced trio.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>