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Boston professor Johan Meyer, an eminent anthropologist is highly regarded for his translations of Egyptian tablets. Approached to evaluate an ancient text, his mysterious client requires urgency so Johan works around the clock. As the hours pass, strange occurrences take place as Johan's dreams become drenched in bizarre visions. It all seems a strange coincidence until the translation is almost at an end. It is only then that Johan realises the parchemtn contains a ritual that brings to life the Queen of the Underworld, thus awakening the dead and plunging the world into eternal darkness.

Wow, the horror movie Ed Wood wished he could have made.

You know in some films involving a curse such as the one featured here, and the airing of some ancient text sets free some sort of deadly creature from the dawn of time? &#39;The Curse&#39;, or &#39;Foe&#39; as it is sometimes known, fills the vast majority of the running time with piecing together the text. As a fan of slow-burning films, even I found myself getting exasperated with the endless scenes of research and bickering in the pursuit of making sense of this alleged curse. Just as it seems hero Johann (Mark Gantt) is getting somewhere, the sequence turns out to be a dream, or troublesome Agent Mike Fox (Timothy Gibbs) pops in and tells Johann exactly what the audience already know. The acting is very good, the locations are scenic and well used, but the story seems to deliberately avoid going anywhere. This is a shame - Antoni Solé&#39;s plot is hardly there at all. Fox&#39;s involvement gives us reason to suspect he is pivotal character, and yet he is killed arbitrarily off camera, and a fairly important phone conversation between Johann and his wife Barbara (Nikol Kollars) occurs with us only hearing Johann&#39;s dialogue - at first I thought these two occurrences were two clever red herrings of some kind, but no. Alongside many other moments, they just &#39;happened&#39;. Very inconclusive. It&#39;s as if actors Kollars and Gibbs suddenly became unavailable for some reason and were unable to finish the film. When the end of &#39;Foe&#39; came, it happened with no sense of closure or deliberation: the finale was just another scene that made no real sense. This is disappointing because so much seems to have been invested in this. My score is 4 out of 10.

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The cast were actually not that bad, excepting maybe agent Fox, who was a little over the top. The rest were capably trying to do their best with the miserable script and entirely absent story line. This truly belongs among the few worst movies I have ever seen. The only reason it isn&#39;t as bad as Tommy Wiseau&#39;s The Room is because Tommy isn&#39;t in it. Otherwise, it makes just about as much sense. Apparently, the nonsensical ending was tacked on because they&#39;d run out of ideas and had to end it somehow. The real failing of this film is that it falls just short of being &quot;so bad it&#39;s good&quot;. What a shame, could have been a classic.

I watched this a few years ago and very recently watched it again. A short movie, made with limited budget, and I wish only that this producer would produce more movies or even expand on the ghastly old Gods theme explored so well herein. I note the very low review rating. Rubbish. This short movie has it all - ancient evil in the middle eastern deserts, an acolyte willing to spill blood - others and ultimately his own; and the lore of the ancient eddas on which all is based, including the bible (old testament) - and much more, crammed into the limited screen time. The only negative aspect in my view was the intrusive, rude and stereotypical detective who, if it were me, would have been told unceremoniously to get his scungy out of my property and never come back unless with a search warrant. For those with a bent for Laird Barron, HPL - those types of scenarios - catch this movie if possible. You won&#39;t regret it.

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Inconclusive.

Wow, the horror movie Ed Wood wished he could have made.

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