"The Curse" 1987 by David Keith displays great horrific atmosphere and a nice cast with Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins , John Schneider , Malcolm Danare , among others . From the darkest part of the heavens , horror has arrived , a meteorite that lands near a small farm. The night of a storm , an unindentified, glowing object falls from space , it seems to be a meteor that crashes on earth and infects the water , food and near a farm in rural Tennessee , and , subsequently , the Alien parasites do gruesome things to a lonely family . With it comes a terrible curse for the astonishing family , while farm animals and fruits get infected . As the stiff father (Claude Akins providing nice acting) undertakes a crusade to rid the wife (Kathleen Jordon Gregory) and children (Wil Wheaton and his real-sister Amy Wheaton ) of these monstruosities , resulting in fateful consequences . It will consume you ! No one believe them ! Now , no one's left to save them. It takes your body. And your mind . Then it takes you straight to hell... It took seed ...now it needs to feed . A tale of crops , creatures and carnage !.
Terror movie with thrills , chills , scary events , strong violence and traditional but effective special effects . Concerning an outer entity , a huge, glowing meteorite falls on a farm and contaminates the grubby area , turning people and animals into slime-oozing mutants .Here stands out the colorful images and the gory and loathing FX with plenty of blood and grimy that deliver the goods enough . This is based on Lovecraft story titled ¨Color Out of Space¨, this notorious writer has been adapted in several films such as Dagon , The Dunwich Horror ,The Call of Cthulhu , Re-animator , Re-sonator , The Beyond , Valdemar Legacy I , Valdemar Legacy II , and many others . Stars Wil Wheaton as the good little boy who attempts to save his sister at whatever cost , Claude Akins as the fanatic religious as well as upsettling daddy and Malcolm Damre as the extremely nasty brother. The remaining ensemble cast includes , Steve Carlise , Cooper Huckabee and John Schneider , all of them giving decent acting . It was again adapted in 2019 as ¨Color out of space¨by Richard Stanley with fine performances from Nicolas Cage providing a really histrionic , gestual and almost farcical acting , Joely Richardson, Brendan Meyer and Julian Illiard.
The motion picture was professionally directed by David Keith. This filmmaker has made a few movies , in fact this "The Curse" 2019 resulted to be his first film, and his subsequent outing was ¨Adventures of Tennesse Buck¨. He's a good actor , in his starters , Keith had a supporting role in The Rose (1979) starring Bette Midler ; later on , he had a supporting role in Brubaker (1980), and co-starred with Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). He played a local thug in The Great Santini (1979), starred in The Lords of Discipline (1983) and held a prominent supporting role opposite Matthew McConaughey in U-571 (2000). After that , he played opposite Drew Barrymore in the science fiction horror film Firestarter (1984) , among others . Rating : 6/10 . Acceptable and passable movie horror movie . The pic will appeal to H. P. Lovecraft enthusiasts.
