The Curse (a.k.a. The Farm)

[J.R.]

Just caught this film on one of the 3 dozen Cinemax channels at 5 AM. It's one bad movie fans will really enjoy. It stars Wesley from Star Trek: The Next Generation as a kid whose mom marries a religious zealot played by Claud Akins and they move to his farm in Texas. Then a meteor lands in the back yard and contaminates the water, turning everyone into vomiting, maggot-bleeding creatures. It's one of the many late 80's horror films that shows way too much disgusting imagery. You know, not gore or blood, but brown goo with puss and maggots crawling around. Stuff that's neither gross nor scary, just "eh". There are also several scenes of unnaturally hairy naked men and the morbidly skinny Wesley walking around in his underwear. Chilling.

[Steven Millan]

           Fangoria once claimed that "The Curse" was made for over $2 million,but it defintiely looks like the budget was under 35 cents(that meteor crash-landing is so damn chitzy looking---$2 million budget!?!:NO WAY!!!)
            Lucio Fulci was also a production associate:too bad the Mastetro didn't get his hand onto both the script and the director's chair:imagine all of the nonstop wave of flowing gore,killer zombies,and meaty deaths that would have flooded the screen if Fulci would have been given that type of reign on the set,instead of the clunky La-Hoo-ZaHer status that this one openly displays,and meritly stands on.

[J.R.]

The director is David Keith. Is that the actor of the same name?

[Cullen]

Looks like it is.  Check it out at http://us.imdb.com/Name?Keith,+David

[AndyC]

I remember this one. I think it was supposed to have been based on Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space," putting it among the worst Lovecraft adaptations. In addition to Wesley and Claude Akins, I believe Bo Duke was in it.

The thing I couldn't figure out was what the maggots had to do with anything, besides looking gross. The unknown element from the meteor was supposed to have been changing other substances into itself (or something like that). Having people deteriorating mentally and physically makes sense, but making plants grow and maggots multiply inside things just doesn't fit with that.

Why am I looking for logic in this thing?