Cathy's Curse

1980 "She has the power... to terrorize."
4.5| 1h22m| R| en
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A young girl is possessed by the spirit of her dead aunt, who died in a car accident. Soon members of her family begin to mysteriously die off.

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Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall
ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
Michael Ledo In December of 1947 Jo Ann Gimble absconds with her five year old son George. Her husband and daughter Laura follow in a car (Packard?) and skid off the road to avoid a bunny and burst into flames...which is what happens to every car that goes into a ditch so don't text and drive. In November of 1979 grown up George (Alan Scarfe) moves back into the original house with his nervous breakdown wife Vivian (Beverly Murray) and his daughter Cathy (Randi Allen- only film). Cathy finds an old doll in the attic and sees a picture of Laura accompanied by creep music.Cathy develops telekinetic powers and makes Damien look like a sissy as the ambulance works wheel ruts to and from her home.This is not a film which time has treated well. I watched this on a multi-DVD and it was horribly unrestored. The acting was bad and this could be a "so bad it is good" type of film if you're in the proper mental state as the terror scenes proved to be on the funny side. The Medium who can talk to inanimate objects replaces the Ouija board and saved 10 minutes.Unless you are Randi Allen or a collector far more serious than me, you might want to avoid. As always one man's garbage is another man's cult classic.Guide: "B" word. No sex or nudity.
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.
bkoganbing Young Cathy gets taken by her parents to visit the old family home in Quebec where the spirit of her late aunt, her father's sister takes over her and people and animals start dying mysterious deaths around her. Only her clueless dad doesn't see the connection, but there's a photograph of his late sister who was killed at around the same age Cathy is now which anyone who has eyes can see the resemblance. They don't even need the medium who comes and visits to figure all this out.This French-Canadian production is more tedious than chilling and it's got acting performances that belong in high school plays. The color print I saw is completely washed out and gray and will also put you to sleep. Pass it by folks.