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The Curse / Curse 2: The Bite (Double Feature)

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In "The Curse", a young farmboy named Zack (Wil Wheaton) has a dysfunctional family run by his bible-thumping stepdad (Claude Akins) until one night, a meteorite crash lands near the farm. It unleashes a slimey goo carrying alien parasites that suddenly contaminates the area's water supply and makes the crops look all huge and delicious but actually disgusting on the inside, the animals turn bad even if they rot and turns some of the farm owners into zombie-like mutants as now Zack must try to escape. In "Curse 2" which is not related to the first movie, A happy couple (J.Edie Peck and Jill Schoelen) traveling the southwestern part of America near a nuclear testing range that has contaminated the snakes around the area. Clark gets bitten on the hand by a deadly radioactive snake and soon his hand starts changing and he starts to become a mutated killer.

The first one is a highly entertaining and gooey Sci-fi horror shocker inspired by an H.P. Lovecraft story with some decent special effects, disgusting moments like the apple sequence you won't forget, and a couple of good performances by Wil Wheaton and Claude Akins. Sure some of the acting could be better on the other performers and the story a bit more coherent but this is a fun and disgusting movie that was co-produced by Lucio Fulci and is worth watching even for that suprising ending. "The Curse II" is a completely unreleated story but still enjoyable and gory at times with fine special effects by Steve Johnson, it's quite a "Fly"-esque story of mutation and is filmed in my beloved state of New Mexico in Las Crusas.

The DVD on both features have no extras but good widescreen quality picture on the first movie and the second movie has decent picture with full frame.

Also recommended: "The Thing (1982)", "Re-Animator", "From Beyond", "Slither", "Night of the Creeps", "Undead", "Tremors", "Snakes on a Plane", "Ssssssss", "From Dusk Till Dawn", "Dead Alive (a.k.a. Braindead)", "Evil Dead II", "Pet Semetary", "Night of the Comet", "Maximum Overdrive", "Pitch Black", "Die Monster Die", "The Gate", "The Deadly Spawn (a.k.a. Return of the Aliens)", "Lifeforce", "Event Horizon", "Creepshow", "Deadly Friend", "Day of The Traffids", "Return of the Living Dead 3", "Resident Evil", "Xtro", "Shivers", "The Fly (1986)", "The Blob (1958 and 1988)", "C.H.U.D.", "Leviathan", "The Green Slime", "The Evil Dead", "Doom", "Contamination", "TerrorVison", "Bride of Re-Animator", "Beyond Re-Animator", "Critters 1 & 2", "Killer Klowns from Outer Space", "Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1957 and 1978)", "Them!", "Bad Taste", "Insemenoid", "Nightbeast", "The Faculty", "Species", "X-Files: Fight The Future" and "Videodrome".

I've been waiting for so long for this 80's horror classic to release on DVD.From beginning to the end,nothing boring from this sci-fi movie.J.Eddie Peck was so phenomenal bringing his character on the silver screen.Not to mention a steamy and shocking scene!I never watch any kind of movie showing snake come out from the chopped hand.Is that amazing? The effect was excellent for the 80's period and the storyline also smooth and easy to understand.What more I can tell about "Curse 2 The Bite".Almost perfect!I love watching "The Curse" even though there's no connection with" The Curse 2".This movie also quite good and worth watching!

THE CURSE is about a kid named Zack (Wil Wheaton from Stand By Me and "Star Trek TNG") who finds himself in the middle of an alien invasion. Zack lost his father, and his mother is now re-married to Nathan, a rigid religious nut (Claude Akins) w/ an awful bully of a son named Cyrus (Malcolm Denare from Christine and Popcorn). They all live on Nathan's farm in Tennessee. One night, Zack's frustrated mum decides to sneak out of bed and sleep with the burly farmhand. You can hardly blame her, as hubby is a stone-cold dud in the sack, unwilling to respond to her advances. Anyway, that same night, a meteor crashes onto the farm with a tremendous explosion. This thing is no ordinary space rock! It's cold, and it pulsates eerily! Soon, it melts, seeping horrendous goo into the ground like a river! This in turn pollutes the water table, causing the well to be infected with interstellar slime! Yep, you guessed it, everyone drinks this vile liquid, and all the farm's crops are watered with it! The livestock start getting weird. There's even a mad chicken attack! Mum is the first human to act strange. The rest of the family joins her in short order. Zack and his sister, Alice (Amy Wheaton) avoid the putrid food and water, only to be surrounded by their mutated, homicidal, orally oozing relatives! THE CURSE is a lesser known 80s classic, sort of the grand-child of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, and the grand-dad of movies like SLITHER. CURSE 2: THE BITE is not so much a sequel as it is a goofy spin-off. The story is completely unrelated to the original. This go round we get a guy named Clark and his girlfriend traveling through a government testing site in Arizona. Of course, radiation has caused desert animals (rattlesnakes this time) to mutate into vicious killers! Not only that, but the venom of these creatures causes further mutations in their prey! Clark is bitten and begins changing in bizarre ways. He becomes a crazed maniac with a unique method of killing anyone he comes in contact with. C2 is a gore-drenched semi-masterpiece of insanity! We also get Jamie Farr (!!) as a salesman turned gun-toting hero; and Bo Svenson (Snow Beast) as the sheriff! Together, CURSE 1 and 2 make for a nice Saturday double bill...

plot goes nowhere everything makes 0 sense chcikens attacking was probably my favorite part really bad

Has to be one of the grossest movies I've seen in any century...I won't give alot of details here but a couple driving through the southwest United States, the state escapes me right now because I am not in the right frame of mind from getting hurt at work BUT, they get a flat tire after running over a whole poopload of snakes on the road but what they don't know is they picked up a hitchhiker and he bites the husband on the hand, they find a doctor in the next town who just happens to be a herpologist played by Jamie Farr From M*A*S*H, who ID's the snake killed in the couples Hotel room and gives him Anti-venom and all is well...right?............WRONG!

Wrong Snake and wrong Anti-venom and of course, the usual havoc ensues but in the meantime, something is going terribly wrong with our snakebite victim, his hand seems to be morphing into a...you got it, a snake and the rest of this review is just left to the imagination and your wallet to reach in and buy this fine DVD, I haven't watched the first CURSE yet but I will now that I'm home for a few days but I reccomend the Second one for sure, it's worth the price alone.

I purchased these, having seen them when they first came out, Curse I in
theaters and Curse II on VHS. The first, starring Wil Wheaton shortly
after his role in "Stand By Me", was a tense, scary, horror film with
an interesting plot about the water turning people into reptilian like
crazies very gradually, though the ending was a bit hokey. The title
refers to the boys father (Claude Akins) thinking that the changes in his wife (she's
the main victim of the tainted water)is a curse from God for her sexual
straying that he discovered. Curse 2 is about a couple who are traveling
near White Sands where A-Bomb tests occurred and the man is bitten by a
snake, one of about a thousand lying all over the road. He begins to
change, his arm becoming snake like over a few hours or days, which is
the only similarity to Curse 1. The movie starts out pretty well, but
becomes rather tedious, with another disappointing ending, not that I
knew how to make it better. Overall, these two movies should hold your
interest if you are a thriller or horror fan, but neither will be classics. Curse 1 is definitely the better of the two. Curse 2 is called "The Bite".

I swear, MGM is the worst when it comes to dvd cover art haha. Anyway, I forgive them because their putting these great horror movies out on dvd! I'll keep the review short and sweet as I usually do. 'The CURSE' -aka- 'The FARM', is about a huge meteorite falling into a farmer's property, so because of this, everything from cattle/live stock to plants begin to spoil! Also the water system is infected! What happens when the farmer, his family, and town folk begin to eat and drink off of what this deadly meterorite created!!!??? You'll just have to find out for yourself!

'The Curse 2' -aka- 'The BITE' is about a man getting bit and his hand starts to mutate, also develops a mind of its own!!! It kinda reminds me of another forgotten horror flick, titled: 'Severed Ties'. Yes, this is unlike the first one and so are the rest of the Curse 1+4 series! It's kinda reminds me of what John Carpenter wanted to do with each 'Halloween' flick, by making a different story but under the same title. These horror flicks are meant to be enjoyed and not taken seriously. Both 1 + 2 have great make-up effects in my opinion.

The Curse is one of those fun, oddball horror flicks that you could catch on HBO at about 5AM back in the good ol' days. I know because I watched it many times and even taped it on VHS. I always liked the movie and thought it was creepy as a kid. I guess a bit of that sticks with me when I watch it today, though it's not a very terrifying movie through adult eyes.
It's based on H.P. Lovecraft's story, The Colour Out Of Space, as was the Boris Karloff flick, Die,Monster, Die! In the movie, Zachary(Will Wheaton-good, but not making quite the impression he did in Stand By Me) lives on a farm with his religious zealot stepdad, Nathan(Claude Akins doing a great job of making you hate him) and his bonehead son, Cyrus, who likes to torment Zack. Zack's mother, Frances, and his little sister, Alice, are there as well. Nathan rules the family with a strict religious iron fist. One night he's refusing his wife's advances, so she does what any horny, sensible woman unfortunate enough to be married to Claude Akins would do, and boinks the handyman. Also at this time, a meteor crashes on the farm. It's an odd marvel at first, but it soon melts and seeps into the newly built well. Now the apples and veggies are growing like crazy, but that's a smokescreen. Soon the water tastes funny, the apples are packed with worms, the lettuce is full of snotty ooze, and the farm animals are acting violently-full of bugs too! Zack and his sister seem to be the only ones who know something funny is going on. Nathan puts it all down to God's will, so he's no help at all, but more or less an accomplice of the curse. The infected family members start getting nasty warts like the ones Lemmy from Motorhead has, and begin to act crazy. Frances becomes downright grotesque and savage. Zack tries to enlist the help of the local doctor and an EPA type guy played by John Schneider(yes, THAT John Schneider), but in the end he's the one who's gonna have to try to save himself and his sister from The Curse.
The movie was directed by actor David Keith(he's the guy who played Drew Barrymore's dad in Firestarter)making his directorial debut. Lucio Fulci(billed as Louis Fulci) is an associate producer! I'll bet you horror fans wanna see this now, eh? It's really not too bad of a little horror film, and worth checking out.
Curse 2:The Bite is one of those sequels in name only. Apparently The Curse must have been fairly successful(though to this day I have yet to meet one other person who has actually seen The Curse. I did force some of my childhood friends to watch it back when I was hot poop for taping it off HBO at 5AM), so the title was used again to make this film seem like a tie-in with The Curse. Curse 2 didn't make it to HBO(I don't think), but it certainly appeared at all the local video stores. It's entertaining in it's own right but just doesn't pack the same kind of punch. It's one of those road trip type films. Clark and his girlfriend are out on vacation and drive through a radioactive bomb test area infested with radioactive animals-primarily snakes. Ol' Clark is bitten and things just get progressively crappy for him from then on. His bitten arm slowly morphs into an uncontrollable snake head. Clark and his girlfriend, Lisa(late 80s/early 90s minor league scream queen Jill Schoelen) are pursued by a police sheriff(Bo Svenson!) and a traveling salesman(Jamie Farr!!) trying to avoid a lawsuit by initially giving Clark the wrong snake antidote. Lots of chasing, hiding, screaming, bandage oozing and snake biting. Even an eyeball sliding down a windshield! There's a bit more gore in Curse 2 than the first film, but the gore isn't really a substitute for story, and The Curse had the more messed up story. Curse 2 isn't too bad and a harmless way to turn your Saturday into a "Curse" night.
Bare bones DVDs, no trailers or anything. That's pretty much expected though with these obscure flicks that don't really even qualify as Cult films. I could have certainly done without this new lousy cover art(which seems to happen to almost every DVD release of a cool movie that had cool cover art), as The Curse had a pretty snazzy cover showing Wheaton's face next to the farm house held in the palm of a giant, yucky hand emerging from the ground. Oh, well, at least I can replace that old VHS tape finally.

This double feature was a treat to find. The original feature (The Curse) was directed by a popular actor which was interesting, but the story was really good. Special effects were not the greatest, but that would be the only weakness of the film. "The Curse 2 (The Bite)" had an interesting plot, but the acting suffered. It is still worth watching as it is a good film. The cost for the double feature is unbeatable.

The curse was sort of disturbing for me me in a strange way.I never got to see this movie until now.It was really hard to find on vhs,however the artwork was more appealing and better,as this one is not.As a collector i was dissapointed with its dual disc generic cover and packaging.mgm does not put out the best artwork on there dvd's hello mary lou prom night2 is a good example ,however i recommend this movie it is great and the effects were amazing.