Black Demons
Three tourists in Brazil inadvertently get involved in an
ancient curse when one of them accepts an amulet of the Macumba
loa, Ogum.
The trio are a brother and sister and the sister's boyfriend,
who foolishly accepted the amulet during a possession ceremony.
Not only was he foolish enough to accept a charged amulet,
but he even taped the ceremony.
This leads to disaster when, after the trio have settled in
at an old mansion, he plays the tape back.
Out of the ground come six black zombies, bent on revenge
for sufferings they endured while living.
Each zombie is pledged to kill one white person in repayment
for what they endured as slaves.
Cast:
Joe Balogh, Sonia Curtis
Director:
Umberto Lenzi
The Curse
This awful horror film, the directing debut of actor David
Keith, is the second major adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's
The Colour Out of Space, first brought to the screen in Daniel
Haller's Die, Monster, Die.
Wil Wheaton stars as Zack, eternal whipping-boy of a rural
farm family headed by his religious fanatic stepfather Nathan
(Claude Akins).
A large meteor comes zipping through the clouds and crashes
in the yard, where local scientist Carl Willis (John Schneider)
cracks it open to leak slime into the water supply.
Soon, tomatoes are squirting blood, the lettuce oozes pus,
apples are full of worms and little Alice (Wheaton's real-life
sister Amy) is pecked bloody by crazed chickens.
Eventually, the bad water begins affecting other members of
the family, until Willis shows up to save the day.
Keith's direction is sluggish, the acting is horrid, and even
the involvement of associate producer Lucio Fulci couldn't
save the wretched effects-work.
The cast doesn't even seem to be paying attention most of
the time, as in the priceless moment when Zach's mother tells
him, "Eat your eggs, Wil"
The Curse is an utter abomination which somehow produced three
unrelated sequels.
Cast:
Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcom Danare, Cooper Huckabee,
John Schneider, Amy Wheaton, Steve Carlisle, Kathleen Jordan
Gregory, Hope North
Directors:
David Chaskin, David Keith |
