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The Curse (1987)
Falling under the genre of rural American farm horror movie (see Deadly Blessings) ,The Curse cheekily borrows from The Blob and the Creepshow episode The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill.Now this is supposed to be adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space ,but I have never read that story so can not confirm or disagree with how accurate that this is.Also according to the WWW Lucio Fulci supervised the gore effects,again apart from a dodgy name on the credits I have no idea why on earth he would do this.(im sure someone could confirm this) Nathan Crane (Claude Akins) is a religious nut who spouts the bible and refuses to have sex with his dead brothers wife Kathleen Jordon Gregory as Frances Crane. Wil Wheaton as Zack Crane and Amy Wheaton as Alice Crane are not particularly happy living with nutty uncle Nathan and his dumb ass bullying son. On top of this the farm is losing money and is under threat from having the land turned into a reservoir. Just when things could not get any worse a giant meteorite crashes lands on the farm nearby,glowing away like one giant testicle looking for its mate. This simultaneously happens when Frances Crane. decides to have sex with the farm hand,so the earth really did move for her anyway, At first the crops are looking good,the chickens are clucking and the cows are a mooing,until the meteorite seems to have polluted the farm's water,turning the apples into maggot ridden disgusting yuck,the cows udders are not looking great either and the chickens are just foul. And who ever drinks the water starts to get a completion that not even the best botox surgeon could sort out. I have to say I enjoyed The Curse ,its a fairly well made pot boiler,with some nice goey effects and some rather good acting from the young Wil Wheaton not to forget Claude Akins without his ape make-up is always fun.Make a good double with Deadly Blessings.