Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

sol- Possessed by the spirit of her aunt, who died in a childhood car accident, a young girl acquires supernatural powers in this strange Canadian variation on 'The Omen' and 'The Exorcist'. The film gets off to a mediocre start with a poorly edited, intertitle-heavy exposition segment that tells us the circumstances by which the aunt died even though it has little bearing on the plot. The film improves somewhat as it cuts to decades later with an expressive Randi Allen well cast as the young protagonist who gradually progresses from using foul language to becoming totally unhinged as the movie plods along. The doll that she finds (and which supposedly leads to the possession) is pretty creepy too; same goes for a painting upstairs with glowing eyes. Unfortunately none of the adult actors here are up to Allen's level. Beverly Murray is particularly over-the-top as her overbearing mother and the less said about the man who plays a constantly coughing drunk who she befriends the better. The biggest issue (or 'curse' if you like) with the film though is that it never really makes up its mind what it wants to be. There is no tangible motivation driving the possessed aunt and a lot of what Allen does comes off as weird for the sake of it. The film does benefit from a pulsating music score and refreshingly minimal (decent) special effects, but to what end here is uncertain.

preppy-3 Cathy is a sweet little girl who moves into his father's boyhood home with him and her mom. Twenty years earlier a little girl had also lived there but had died in a car accident. Cathy gets her room and (for no good reason) becomes possessed by the spirit of the dead little girl through a rag doll. She begins acting nasty, swearing, speaking in a man's voice, disappearing at will (???), causing things to move about and killing two people and a dog.Slow, dull "Exorcist" clone with a pointless story, terrible script, VERY bad acting, clumsy "special" effects, laughable gore and it just isn't scary or even remotely interesting. There is no rhyme or reason to her seemingly limitless powers and her anger at everything makes absolutely no sense. Also the R rating is not warranted. The gore is limited to one scene and there's no nudity, sex or swearing. If you have to see EVERY "Exorcist" clone ever made than this is for you. Otherwise stay away.

Red-Barracuda Cathy's Curse is a bargain basement version of The Omen meets Carrie, which were contemporary horror hits at the time. It's a truly terrible film that has the added disadvantage of seemingly being only available in prints that are in an atrocious state (in the one I saw, the colours were so bad that the blood was purple). But even if this movie was released on high definition it wouldn't change the fact that it's abysmal.The story is senseless. A mother takes her son George away from the family home, leaving the father and daughter. The dad isn't too pleased about this, so he jumps in his car with his little girl Laura. They swerve off the road to avoid a rabbit and the car blows up. Thirty years later, the son returns to the family home with his wife and daughter, Cathy. Pretty much right away Cathy becomes possessed by George's sister Laura's old doll and becomes homicidal, killing various people. Laura seems to be an embittered soul, angered by her early death and wrecks havoc via her brother's offspring.From the above synopsis, I think it's only fair to say that the film, strictly speaking should have been called Laura's Curse. But this is only a glaring detail and this film quite frankly doesn't concern itself with such trivialities. There are many moments of WTF in this film. At one point Cathy teleports from the bottom of the stairs to the top and vice-versa, and her mother, witnessing this, just gets annoyed; she doesn't actually seem to be, well, a little surprised that her daughter has developed the ability to teleport at will, she is merely irritated with her misbehaving child. In another scene Cathy sits down for breakfast and throws her plate across the room at the opposite wall, smashing it to bits, and the housekeeper simply picks it up and seems to imply that she just dropped it, rather than launched it 3 metres over the other side of the room. In other words, people in this movie do not act like Earthlings. A further example of utter madness, is where the medium takes hold of an old family picture then starts talking in creepy voices, getting progressively more and more demented until she smashes the picture on the floor while screaming; she then turns around and says that she's really had a marvellous time and would simply love to pop over again. It's just weird. What perhaps makes these people all the stranger is that absolutely no one can act. The performances are universally atrocious. The handyman is abysmal too, although it's maybe not surprising seeing as he appears to be Mick Fleetwood from Fleetwood Mac in a rare acting appearance.There are one or two occasions when Cathy's Curse is almost effective. And it can't be argued that it's pretty bizarre throughout. But despite all this, it drags. The unintentional hilarity is something to behold but you really need some buddies and beer to enjoy this one.

Zeegrade Uttterly unwatchable dreck that's plagued by a serious degradation of the original copy. The movie is in a constant orange hue that I began to wonder if this was actually filmed on Tang. It doesn't really matter anyway as the poor editing which appears to be done by hyperactive toddlers renders most of the plot useless regardless of the clarity of the picture.The story begins with the father and sister of George Gimble who were apparently abandoned by George's mother who took the young George with her. The dad gets into his car with the young girl in pursuit, one might gather as his motivations are never addressed (they could be going to Pizza Hut for all I know), when a rabbit in their path causes them to swerve off the side of the road into a small embankment which of course causes the car to go up in flames. Flash forward to the now adult George who has returned to his childhood home along with his wife Vivian and his daughter Cathy. Left to investigate her new home on her own, which happens a lot mind you, Cathy comes upon a doll with her eyes sewn shut that for some reason she becomes infatuated with. Turns out this doll holds the tormented soul of George's dead sister Laura who transfers her powers of telekinesis along with her virulent hatred of women over to Cathy. Wouldn't that make this Laura's curse instead of Cathy's? You might want to look into that. Anyway, Cathy begins her reign of terror as she maims and murders any living thing in sight along with the occasional "bitch" or "whore" peppered in for good measure. This provides the lone amusing scene as Cathy verbally abuses an admittedly creepy medium along with the drunk handyman Paul who really looks like Mick Fleetwood.It was approximately two seconds after Vivian screeched her first line about her nervous breakdown that I wanted her to die first. I would compare her voice to nails on a chalkboard except for the fact that even that would be the sound of angels singing next to the grating effect of her New Joisy accent. She bitches and moans the whole movie: "George I heard the do-awg barking, the do-awg" or her complaint that someone is watching her from the yard even though her back is to the window. At one point she watches Cathy teleport multiple times in front of her to which she responds by irritation rather than open-jawed disbelief. In her defense she gets no help from her useless husband George who does absolutely nothing throughout the film except refer to his construction job that requires a shirt and tie. A neighborhood medium introduces herself to Vivian, holds a photo of George's father, goes into a violent flashback trance of the car crash complete with speaking in different voices, and then acts like nothing happened. What parallel universe do these people live in? Or is this just typical of Canadian suburbs? Scenes are edited so abruptly, like whenever the doll moves on its own, that Cathy's Curse resembles more a flipbook with random drawings rather than a movie. On top of the picture quality, editing, and poor character development is the sound effects that go from obnoxious to down right earsplitting such as George's electric razor and the constant crackle of "silence" that resembles someone running a shower inside the room. The only reason I made it through this film in one viewing is the fact that it was about five degrees outside and the thought of shoveling all of that global warming snow wasn't enough to get me to turn this crap off. But not by much.