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while i give this an "average" score, it is a pretty good version of the story. in fact i was driven to write this review because i am currently reading "the colour out of space" (and yes, that is how the title is spelled) . i saw this movie a few years ago, but some of the parts will be stuck in my mind forever. the acting is par, (it isn't that bad, but isn't that good), the film work is par, but it does what Lovecraft's story did, it has turns in it that will stay in your mind for a very long time. perhaps the most disturbing thing i saw in it (other then their use of meal worms for certain effects) was the melting effect, if you watch this movie, that will stay with you for a very long time indeed, especially when the movie comes to its climax. it was a very good scare, and i recommend seeing it like i did, at 2:00 in the morning with no lights on, after all that is the best way to experience Lovecraft and his works. though it does not match the book by any stretch in terms of dialog, or even setting and writing, it is still very close to the original in terms of the way the plot develops. and after all what movie has been totally true to its literary counterpart? anyway, if you want a bit of a scare, and don't have a weak stomach, or are in to a "Twighlight Zone" type of scenario, this movie is for you.

"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.

The Curse is a grotesque vision of H. P. Lovecraft's "Colour out of Space." Most Lovecraft adaptions suck (save the Gordon-Yuzna-Combs collaborations), but I happened to like this one. And it looks like I'm in the minority on that. Why do people hate this movie so much? Yes, it has flaws. David Keith's direction isn't great. He's an extremely likable actor and he should stick to what he's good at. I feel like the prologue part should have been saved for the epilogue. It would have been a fitting end, it was not a place to start. Some of the acting is also hammy, mostly the supporting cast. As actors go, Wil Wheaton does a fine job, as does his sister. And they're the only characters you are supposed to care about. The mother character freaks me out as she changes during the film. Horror Director Lucio Fulci produced, and maybe influenced, this one. There are scenes of gore present that rival Fulci's own. Not of the "flesh-ripping" variety, but of the "lets see what disgusting things we can do to food" type of gore. The Curse is not a film to eat during. I suggest that you ignore most of the comments, see the movie, and make your own decision as to whether it's good or bad.

Don't watch this movie. Wil Wheaton has described how incredibly abusive the whole experience was. From his parents forcing him to do it, to him and his sister being overworked and put in damaging situation, to even sexual abuse. Oh, and his abusive parents spent all the money.

Just google Wil Wheaton and the title of the movie, and read what he said. But here you have some snipets:

"I told my parents I didn't like it and didn't want to do it. I clearly recall thinking it was a piece of sh-- that would hurt my career."

"The experience was awful. It was the worst experience I have ever had on a set in my life, by every single metric. The movie is awful, and it is the embarrassment I knew it would be."

"When you watch The Curse, you are watching two children, me and my sister, who were abused on a daily basis. The production did not follow a single labor law. They worked us for twelve hours a day, (...) without any breaks, five days a week"

"I was inappropriately touched by two different adults during production. I knew it was wrong, but I was so scared and ashamed, and I felt so unsupported, I didn't tell anyone. I knew my dad wouldn't believe me, and my mother would blame me. Anything to keep the production happy, that's what she did."

"My sister is in a scene where she goes to get eggs from some chickens, and they attack her. So they hired Lucio Fulci, the Italian horror master, to direct her sequence. His idea, which everyone was totally on board with, was to throw chickens at my sister. Live chickens, live roosters, live birds. Just throw them at a nine-year-old girl. Oh, and then tie them to her arms and legs so they'll peck her. All of this happened under my mother's observation, and with her full participation."

"The makeup department decided they would literally cut my little sister's face with a scalpel, in three places, and put bandages over them."

"As I predicted and feared, this piece of -- movie cashed me out of respectable films forever. I got offers for movies, but they were always mindless comedies or exploitative horror films. They were never the serious dramas I wanted to work in after Stand by Me."

And there's more to it. Go read it.

Truly disturbing to see how children can be treated in Hollywood. No one to look after them.

Seriously. Shame on the director, the make-up crew, and all the production, the studio executives, and Wheaton's parents. Oh, and Fulci too.

Don't watch this movie! Wil Wheaton has said time and time again that he was abused on the making of this film so if you want to respect the actors who were children at the time don't watch this movie!

The Curse (1987) is among the worst movies I have ever fully sat through. Not only is it dull, badly acted, badly shot, and horribly scored, but it also makes absolutely no sense and is easily one of the biggest misfires i've ever seen. It's one of those films that try so hard to be scary, even though it clearly knows it can't. Besides the bland scenery and cinematography- we are often treated to the exact same country banjo-toned music covered by standard ominous tones in nearly every single scene- and truly its enough to drive you nuts. The special effects aren't too terrible I suppose, at least for a low budget film like this, but they are quite obvious...and incredibly cheap looking...and look like something you can find at a dollar store- so yeah they're bad- but I guess they could have been worse? The acting is incredibly over the top as well, especially from the non-Wheaton's of the main family. That being, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare, and Kathleen Jordon Gregory (the later of which never had a role other than this movie). Akin's is an over the top abusive stepfather who is hilariously forced on screen nonsense seems like something you would see out of an 80's family sitcom. Danare's portryalof the older step brother is so offuttingly dumb that you can't help but feel sorry for the actor as you're watching him- as you know he isn't going anywhere after this film. The Wheaton's are not great in the film either, but they try the right amount, and most of their flaws throughout the film are largely due to the ridiculous script- which, truth be told- doesn't really have a clear story to begin with. In the end, The Curse is an incredibly bland over-saturated little low budget horror film that should never be watched voluntarily. Simply said, just watch the 2019 Color Out of Space instead- it's actually good.

My Rating: 1/10.

IMDb rating almost kept me away from this jewel. That would be a big mistake. The first hour is a mystery drama with SF premise, and then in the last twenty minutes it grows into good horror. In my opinion, few scenes with lousy effects should have been skipped and without them movie would be more convincing, but even this way this is the best Lovecraft adaptation I saw so far and one of the best movies in its class, primarily because of excellent atmosphere it builds and succeeds to maintain on the level till the very end. This one definitely goes to my collection.

7/10 (8,5/10 within the genre)

The Curse (1987) was a film that was loosely based upon the short story "The Colour from Outer Space". This seminal horror/science fiction prose was written by the master of horror H.P. Lovecraft. The problem with adapting his original material is that the film makers tinker with success. Whilst a few directors such as Stuart Gordon and Dan O'Bannon have been successful in translating his stories for the silver screen, most of them are pure nonsensical tripe that's best avoided (except for John Carpenter's trilogy of the apocalypse that captures the aura of Lovecraft perfectly).

The Curse had all the makings of being a decent film. But the director and writers just don't fully understand the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Dumbingt down the man's work for a pedestrian horror film just doesn't cut it. Whilst it get's an A for effort it get's an F minus in execution. Bad acting, sloppy direction and lousy dialog dooms this movie from the get go. Better luck next time.

Not recommended, unless you're a H.P. Lovecraft completist.

There certainly are elements in this film that could have been left out, and the film would have been better off for it; why the cheap monster/demon makeup?(The increasing blisters are great though..) Why having that obnoxious fatso-brother appear in the film at all? And let's face it, the special effects in places were not exactly state of the art either, neither were the editing. So why give it an 8 then? Well my rating couldn't have been any lower, and this is based solely on the fact that the film positively reeks of unique and creepy atmosphere, atmosphere so dark that I put it up there with the Kane-scenes in "Poltergeist 2", and the atmosphere in "Exorcist 3". There truly are some psychotic and memorable scenes. Two that stands out are when the mother of the family tries to " connect the dots" on Cyrus's back, the other is when she sits quietly in the living-room sowing, and then starts to jam the needle and thread into her hands! Excellent! Not to mention the infested fruit and vegetables! All in all,there is in this film a disturbed and unsettling tension that you seldom get to witness in other horror flicks of the same decade, and certainly not in contemporary and crappy Hollywood blockbusters, that's for sure. If you are just curious, rent! If you are a true horror-fan, buy!

In Tellico Plains, Tennessee, the widow Frances (Kathleen Jordon Gregory) has married the pious farmer Nathan Crane (Claude Akins), and her children, Zachary (Will Wheaton) and Alice (Amy Wheaton) are living with his obnoxious son Cyrus (Malcolm Danare) in the farmhouse. Nathan is digging a well in his property to irrigate his plants and supply water, and the worker Mike (Steve Davis) is helping him. One night, he does not give attention to Frances, and she betrays him with Mike. Out of the blue, a meteor falls in his farm, and Nathan sees his wife with Mike. The local Dr. Alan Forbes (Cooper Huckabee) decides to call the appropriate authorities to investigate the rock. However, he is dissuaded by the speculator Charlie Davidson (Steve Carlisle). Alan's sexy wife Esther Forbes (Hope North), who wants to move from that place, also convinces him to analyze the meteor by himself. A dam will be built In Tellico Plains and the value of the lands will increase, and Esther will receive an extra bonus from Charlie, if Nathan sells his lands. Meanwhile, the meteor releases a strange substance in the water table, contaminating the water of Nathan's farm. Zachary notes that something weird is happening with his mother, vegetables, and animals, but Nathan disregard his observation, believing that God is punishing them for her infidelity.

"The Curse" (1987) is a horror sci-fi movie that deserves to be watched with attention My first review of this film in IMDb was unfair, and "The Course" is not so bad. The sanctimonious Nathan Hayes is the key element of the story, with his ignorance and religiosity. The greedy of Charlie Davidson, Dr. Alan Forbes and his wife Esther are also important. The last point is the lack of experience of Carl Willis is the last factor for the happening of the havoc in Tellico Plains. The special effects are poor, but the viewer shall consider that this is a low-budget movie. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "A Maldição - Raízes do Terror" ("The Curse - Roots of Terror")

This movie is about a family living on a farm in the country: a husband, wife, and two sons and a daughter. The father, being an EXTREMELY religious type, finds out that his wife is cheating on him. Not long after that, a meteor hits the backyard (how stereotypical can you get?) and begins to pollute the water and the vegetables. Those who eat the vegetables and drink the water slowly turn into hideous, slime-spewing homicidal mutants!!!

Duh-Duh-Duhhnn! I'm guessing that maybe this meteor is supposed to be a punishment from God (or so the husband says.)

Everyone but the younger brother and his sister eat the food and drink the water from the farm. First, the fruits and vegetables start to rot/become infested with insects/fill up with brownish fluid. Next, the chickens attack the daughter, and the horse kicks one of the brothers. After that, the cows become sick and start spewing up maggots. By this time, the mother, who was infected first I'm guessing, starts to break out in these nasty little blisters. Eventually, she starts talking in gibberish, eats with her fingers and tries to stitch a cloth to her hand, then she tries to kill her husband. The husband puts her in the shed for the next few days. The next person to show signs of infection is the brother, who starts acting like more of a buttmunch than usual. A dog on their farm kills a traveling salesman's assisstant, and the wife ends up munching the salesman's guts. When the husband finds out he moves his wife to the attic. Meanwhile, the main character (Will Wheaton) tries to figure out how to save his sister from his now-criminally insane family. That night, his father finds him in the shed looking for his mother. Then he notices that his son has a backpack filled with evil, sinful, store-bought food. His father tells him he's unappreciative and tries to beat him. When that fails, he tries to kill him. The brother is able to hold him off until the house starts collapsing. A friend of the family comes by to save Will Wheaton and his sister, but Will says he has to save his mother. He goes up to the attic, and in one of the most creepy scenes of the movie, he watches his mother rot away into a puddle of black goo. He escapes just in time to watch the house sink into the ground, sending his unholy kinfolk into redneck hell!

I liked this movie, it WAS poorly acted, but it was far-fetched to begin with. There are some genuinely nasty moments that will make your skin crawl. For instance, after the chickens attack the little girl the camera zooms in as their eyes collapse in the sockets and start bleeding this nasty yellow goop. Or the scene where the cow's udder splits open and locusts fly out. Or the scene where the mother cuts open a head of lettuce to reveal it's putrid, rotting innards (and lettuce doesn't even HAVE innards!). The film is very dark in atmosphere and there is a sense of impending doom throughout the whole film, not unlike that of Poltergeist. I give it 6 1/2 out of 10 because the acting, other than that of Wheaton and Akins, was horrendous.

"The Curse"is a total,almost unwatchable garbage,I can't believe the positive reviews people give it here.The acting is bad,the special effects are lame,and the script is obnoxious and stupid.More boring than scary "The Curse" is one of the lamest horror movies I have seen.Why such great director like Lucio Fulci produced this one is beyond me.Watch it to make fun of it.Not recommended.

Lmao!!! You guys think you have it bad watching this thing, I actually spent half my life in the little hick town it was filmed in.

Now that is bad.

Oddly only a small glimpse of the town is visible in the movie, in the scene where you can see an old barbed wire fence outside of the car window as John Schneider drives down the road... well the hill just above it has contained 3 apartment complexes since around 1992 and I currently reside in one of them.

In another scene you can see out the door of the "Inn" (if you can call it that) the old historic Co-Op building which used to be a Railroad Station that was used in the Civil War (tracks have been gone since 1990 or so).

Fortunately I did spend the other half of my childhood in various other places across the country.

Unfortunately, I am currently residing in good Ole' Tellico Plains Tennessee again ..... can't seem to stay out of this place .... aaahhh... omg it is a curse!!!!

Actor David Keith made an unusual but creditable directing debut with this positively nasty adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story "The Colour Out of Space" (which had been previously filmed as "Die, Monster, Die!"). It takes the dying of the family farm quite literally. Young Wil Wheaton, who'd recently made an impression in the excellent drama "Stand By Me", is promoted as the star of this story about a small group of country folk and their yucky fate after a very strange meteorite lands on their property and oozes a substance that contaminates their water supply. It slowly but surely mutates some of the family - as well as the livestock - and drives them into a frenzy. Wheaton is appealing in the lead role, and is one of the few characters in the story with any brains. He knows the water is bad, but his Bible thumping, overbearing stepfather Nathan (Claude Akins) refuses to acknowledge that anything is wrong - at least, until he sees what's growing inside of his produce. Keith and his crew do a fine job of creating some *very* effective down-home atmosphere; this is both filmed in and set in the town of Tellico Plains, Tennessee. They also make this a decidedly grim affair, which only gets more creepy as it goes along. However, that's not to say that they miss the potential for humour, as witness the "connect the dots" sequence. Visual and makeup effects are generally well done, with the blisters that grow on peoples' faces growing bigger all the time. The music by Franco Micalizzi is quite good throughout. The cast features an interesting bunch of actors. In addition to Wheaton and the entertainingly hammy Akins, the actors include Malcolm Danare ("Christine") as obnoxious, bullying slob stepbrother Cyrus, Wheatons' adorable younger sister Amy as his sister in the film, the solid Cooper Huckabee ("The Funhouse") as the doctor who tries to do the right thing, and in an amusing case of "What is HE doing here?", John Schneider of 'The Dukes of Hazzard' fame plays the straight laced water company representative. Steve Carlisle is hilarious as unsubtle slimeball Davidson (then again, very little in this film is subtle) and Kathleen Jordon Gregory is memorable as the increasingly demented mother Frances. The film isn't without its problems: viewers can find the characters infuriating, and the script (by David Chaskin) isn't too coherent (just where does Schneiders' character come from during the finale?) overall. Still, horror fans should find this a pretty agreeable gross-out experience (that bit with the apples is fun) that is slickly made and full of cool moments. Associate producer "Louis Fulci" is actually film director Lucio Fulci. Seven out of 10.

This adaptation of Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space proves that adapting most of Lovecraft's work is just not feasible unless really done with utmost care.

The horror in Lovecraft's story is completely contained within his writing style and as such cannot be easily translated to film.

Especially when the film is so pedestrian and routine as this one, and leaves out significant elements of the story, or changes them, and/or updates it to a modern time period for the sake of budget. Just take one look at the "meteor" (like a weather balloon) and the "impact crater" (badly designed bulldozer scrape) and you'll see the budget restrictions.

Practically everyone who has read this story and is a Lovecraft fan has imagined it as a film. The proper way to do it would be as what the HPLHS Films did for The Whisperer in Darkness, which would be B&W and set in the same time period as the story.

And the use of B&W photography would be of prime significance since the actual "colour" from space is supposed to be a new type of color never before seen by human eyes.

"The Farm" (much better title than "The Curse", if you ask me) was one of the first horror movies I secretly rented during the late 80's, so obviously it always remained something special, and, to me personally, and a movie with great nostalgic value. Of course by now, nearly twenty years later, I realize it's not the greatest horror masterpiece ever made, but it's definitely also not as terrible as some of the reviews around here lead you to believe. "The Farm" is loosely based on a H.P. Lovecraft story called "The Colour Out of Space", revolving on a meteorite crash-landing on the fields around a remote farmhouse and causing crops to grow to enormous sizes (but inconsumable) and organisms to mutate into aggressive monsters. The rudimentary premise is already solid, and David Keith then also adds the engaging sub plot about the stricken family's internal issues. Nathan, the family patriarch, is a religious fanatic who raises his stepchildren with strict rules and believes the rotten crops are God's punishment for the adultery of his wife. Meanwhile the farm also faces financial pressure, as a sleazy local real estate agent tries to buy all unprofitable companies to make room for an upcoming and large-scaled building project. "The Farm" is competently paced and contains a handful moments of admirable suspense. The intro sequence showing a random guy going berserk and repeatedly yelling "It's in the water, it's in the water" is rather uncanny, albeit unrelated to any of the other events shown after the opening credits. The make-up effects are delightfully cheesy and more typically 80's than anything you've ever seen before. There isn't any real carnage on screen, but a nice variety of decaying humans (with erupting volcanoes on their faces) and maggot-infested fruit and vegetables. The exaggeratedly destructive finale is somewhat inappropriate and feels like the writers couldn't find another way out the messy plot, but the whole thing luckily never becomes too ridiculous. Wil Wheaton's name parades the VHS cover (understandably, since he starred in the box office hit "Stand By Me" one year earlier) but it's mostly Claude Akins' performance that impresses. Akins is truly terrific, and even genuinely menacing, as the Bible-quoting and kids-smacking stepfather. Another interesting bit of trivia regarding "The Farm" is the producer's name. This is the only non-Italian movie ever produced by Lucio Fulci, THE maestro of gory zombie flicks like "The Beyond", "City of the Living Dead" and "Zombi 2". Presumably to sound more American, he's credited here as Louis Fulci instead of Lucio.

I had high hopes for this movie, being a fan of old horror movies, but this dull-snooze-fast didn't deliver, at all, the story moves at a snails pace, with barely any horror, only to lead into a disappointing and generic ending, the acting was horrid, it started out good but then just failed hard. wasted an hour an half that i could ahve used to watch a better horror movie.

A decent, but unspectacular late 80s cheesy low-budget b-grade horror feature starring Wil Wheaton (not too long after the hit movie "Stand by Me"). The peculiar plot is a very loose adaptation of a H.P. Lovecraft short story, and from that the film's pacing can plod about (quite talkie and then there was the family dramas) and throw around some ridiculous and elaborate occurrences. It's the performances that drives this one home and some icky, if tatty make-up FX work latter on (not including some very low-end special effects), but other than that there's not all that much to it. The idea isn't bad, but the execution (outside some well-shot scenes) is sloppy (like the use of slow motion towards the end). A respectable Wheaton makes for an agreeably sympathetic performance and a lively Claude Akins is the opposite as his aggressively headstrong, bible totting step-father. There's good support in the shape of Kathleen Jordon Gregory, Cooper Huckabee, Steve Carlisle and John Schneider. The setting of a remote farm does create a claustrophobic hold, where there's never a sense of feeling secure and surprisingly the night time sequences did draw upon some atmospheric spells. A fruity, small scale Horror/Sci-fi production, which can be a little dull.