The Curse (1987 film)
The Curse also known as The Farm is a 1987 American horror film adaptation of H. P. Lovecrafts The Colour Out of Space directed by David Keith. Famed Italian director Lucio Fulci was listed as a coproducer in the credits, and is saidby whom? to have supervised the special gore effects in the film. Compared to previous adaptations of the Lovecraft story, this version stays closer to the source material.
A meteorite lands on the farmland property of Nathan Crane Claude Akins in Tellico Plains, Tennessee. Local physician Alan Forbes Cooper Huckabee is unable to explain why the rock keeps shrinking. He is dissuaded from contacting the authorities by Charlie Davidson Steve Carlisle, a realtor who does not want the new arrival to discourage the Tennessee Valley Authority TVA from establishing a new reservoir in the area. As the rock shrinks away to nothing, a glowing color seeps out and into the ground. Within a few weeks, the farms crops bloom but are soon discovered to be inedible.Shortly after, the local animals, as well as Nathans wife, begin to go mad and a previously unknown element is discovered in the propertys well. Soon Nathan and his son Cyrus Malcolm Danare are also driven insane and begin terrorizing those who come near, including Nathans other children, Zack Wil Wheaton and Alice Amy Wheaton. ........
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