The Curse (1987 film)
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| Directed by | David Keith |
| Produced by |
Ovidio G. Assonitis Moshe Diamant Lucio Fulci Anselmo Parrinello |
| Written by | David Chaskin |
| Based on | "The Colour Out of Space" by H. P. Lovecraft |
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| Music by | Franco Micalizzi |
| Cinematography | Roberto Forges Davanzati |
| Edited by | Claudio M. Cutry |
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Trans World Entertainment Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,930,001 (USA) |
The Curse (also known as The Farm) is a 1987 horror film adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space directed by David Keith. Famed Italian director Lucio Fulci was listed as a co-producer in the credits, and supervised the film's gore effects. Compared to previous adaptations of the Lovecraft story, this version stays closer to the source material.
The film was released theatrically in the United States as The Farm, and was years later released on video as The Curse. Three other Euro-horror "sequels" were distributed on video titled Curse II: The Bite (1989), Curse III: Blood Sacrifice (1991) and Curse IV: The Ultimate Sacrifice (1993); although all four films are completely unrelated to each other except through title.
Teenage boy Zack lives on a farm in Tellico Plains, Tennessee with his mother Frances, younger sister Alice, stern and pious stepfather Nathan Crane and unpleasant, dim-witted stepbrother Cyrus. One night Frances sneaks out of the house while Nathan is asleep and begins having sex with Mike, a farm-hand who lives in a nearby shack. Suddenly a large meteorite crashes onto the property, emitting an eerie glow. Next morning, Alan Forbes, a physician who lives nearby, visits the crash-site, examining the meteorite which is a large sphere with a hard shell from which a noxious liquid oozes out. Before long, the object dissolves into glowing gelatinous liquid which seeps into the soil. Forbes wants to contact the authorities but is dissuaded by Charlie Davidson, local realtor and head of the chamber of commerce, who worries that the event will discourage the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) from building a new reservoir in the area. Forbes' bored wife Esther also manipulates her husband into keeping quiet, worried their house will lose its value.
The mysterious liquid soon begins to affect the farm. The water from the well grows cloudy and tastes unpleasant, fruit and vegetables grow invitingly large but are rotten and in-edible inside and the livestock begin to behave violently and show severe signs of infection. Alice is attacked and injured by infected chickens and Cyrus is nearly killed by a horse. Frances begins to have large boils growing on her face which soon grotesquely alter her features. She becomes mentally unstable, physically harming herself and attacking her own family. Believing the blight affecting his farm to be a punishment from God for his wife's infidelity, Nathan locks her in their bedroom, not allowing Zack to tell the doctor. Zack keeps himself and Alice free from the infection by consuming clean water and food he steals from Forbes' house.
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