Product Details

• Actors: Victoria Ullmann, Nola Roeper, Jack Quinn, Cassandra Church, Colette Claire
• Directors: Ulli Lommel
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: May 15, 2007
• Run Time: 82 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000NOIVTK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #253,630 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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CURSE OF THE ZODIAC - DVD Movie

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No wonder this was released straight to DVD..., June 7, 2007

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Monty Carbolic (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Curse of the Zodiac (DVD)

In a word (well, two, actually): it sucks! That being said, "Curse of the Zodiac" was marginally better than Lommel's previous flick about the Zodiac Killer. This atrocity was apparently set in 1978, and dealt with the Zodiac Killer taunting some writer for reasons unknown. He is still killing, but unlike the real Zodiac Killer, Lommel's version stalked only women and killed them by putting his gun in their mouths and pulling the trigger; it is a matter of fact that the real Zodiac Killer never did anything remotely like that. It's also a matter of fact that 4 of the Zodiac's 7 known victims were actually male, and he was never known to stalk and kill lone women, but then, facts don't seem to be anything that Lommel cares about.

The Zodiac harasses some writer a lot with phone calls, and cusses quite a bit (as mentioned in previous reviews); if all of his cussing were edited out, half the movie would be gone. It's apparent that Lommel has no talent for writing (or directing, for that matter, since he doesn't appear to have invested in anything other than his camcorder that he doesn't know how to use very well), since he couldn't think of anything else for the Zodiac to say. This flick itself was pretty pointless, it didn't seem to have any direction at all and I wondered the whole time where it was going. After it was over, I wondered why I even sat through it (I actually fell asleep two or three times, and the parts I missed made no difference at the end). I will say this, however: the heroine, played by Cassandra Church, is pretty cute, and it does look like she was making an effort unlike most of the others, who gave the impression they were making up the dialogue off the tops of their heads (and, if that's the case... what dialogue did Lommel actually write???).

The heroine had a psychic connection to the Zodiac, and he was also psychically aware of her. At the end, it's implied that the Zodiac killed her psychically... and then, I remembered where I saw this movie once before: "Fear," a TV movie that came out in July 1990, starring Ally Sheedy and Lauren Hutton. Ally Sheedy was a psychic who connected with a serial killer, who in turn was aware of her and played mind games with her. At the end, however, he was the one who was killed, not the psychic... and it looks like poor old Ulli couldn't think of a better plot and so ripped off an old idea and hoped no one would notice.

This gets one star only because there are no zero star ratings. Give it a miss, unless you want to see the cute Cassandra Church...

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bottom of the barrel garbage!, May 15, 2007

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Michael G. Hoelen "JazzBassLover" (Pirmasens, Germany; Merritt Island, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Curse of the Zodiac (DVD)

This movie proves if you have an old raggedy bulky camcorder, a mixer, some keyboards, special effects, and some sorry excuses for actors/actresses that you can make a stupid crappy homemade horror film! The self-proclaimed Zodiac keeps calling the police station and antagonizing the cop and calling him "Fat f*ck" after everything he says. To keep a long story short, take my word and save your time, money, and your eyesight. Do us all a favor and discontinue this one! If you want to see a real film about the Zodiac, watch either "Zodiac" or "The Zodiac". At least in those 2 films they cover events as they happened in real life.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Garbage, June 7, 2007

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Chris C. "Fairfax345" (Fairfax, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Curse of the Zodiac (DVD)

I totally agree! This movie was garbage! One horrible detail is the fact that a lot of the scenes are shown at a 90 degree angle. The ground or floor is over on the right side of the screen. It is like a stupid camera man turned the camcorder to a verticle angle while recording, then when they were editing the film and saw that the image was on it's side, they just said "So what? It will be fine that way." It definitely does look like some 9th graders made it for a high school project - and did a horrible job. The acting is so fake and stupid. The plot is also very very very boring. This is seriously the worst movie I have ever seen! They also say the F word a lot more than any other movie. The killer says "...you fat F***" or similar things hundreds of times. One last point, the gore... when the Zodiac kills a person, they always show a disgusting view of the dead body with a lot of blood. They show things like the person's brains blown out onto the pavement next to her head or the killer sticks his fingers in the bullet holes in the persons head and plays with it! Gross!