The Curse [DVD]

Was looking forward to seeing this despite the reviews. but couldn't get into it. The acting wasn't great an being a horror film there wasn't any scares an sand falling into the rooms an one second it's a little the next it filled room, I'd say horror scare points were even worse. won't watch again. as it didn't go Into details of the tablet an a expert tablet interpreter spends the whole film interpreting about ten words even though his laptop was doing it as he typed.

Don't waste your time - Over-acted (the FBI agent is just about the worse over the top acting I've EVER seen!) and story just never gets going. What's with the woman strolling about every so often? Why does he have to keep messing with the computer during the scanning/translation process as it appears to be entirely automated - just leave it alone man!. Film just ends when you eventually think there might be some action. Absolutely dire.

Good.

You know in some films involving a curse such as the one featured here, and the airing of some ancient text sets free some sort of deadly creature from the dawn of time? ‘The Curse’, or ‘Foe’ as it is sometimes known, fills the vast majority of the running time with piecing together the text. As a fan of slow-burning films, even I found myself getting exasperated with the endless scenes of research and bickering in the pursuit of making sense of this alleged curse. Just as it seems hero Johann (Mark Gantt) is getting somewhere, the sequence turns out to be a dream, or troublesome Agent Mike Fox (Timothy Gibbs) pops in and tells Johann exactly what the audience already know.The acting is very good, the locations are scenic and well used, but the story seems to deliberately avoid going anywhere. This is a shame - Antoni Solé’s plot is hardly there at all.Fox’s involvement gives us reason to suspect he is pivotal character, and yet he is killed arbitrarily off camera, and a fairly important phone conversation between Johann and his wife Barbara (Nikol Kollars) occurs with us only hearing Johann’s dialogue – at first I thought these two occurrences were two clever red herrings of some kind, but no. Alongside many other moments, they just ‘happened’. Very inconclusive. It’s as if actors Kollars and Gibbs suddenly became unavailable for some reason and were unable to finish the film.When the end of ’Foe’ came, it happened with no sense of closure or deliberation: the finale was just another scene that made no real sense. This is disappointing because so much seems to have been invested in this. My score is 4 out of 10.

You'll find this largely obscure film on imdb as The Foe and as the end credits role it is also titled The Second Reign of Night. It's a new movie despite the name changes but the change to The Curse is obviously to fool people into believing they are buying an Omen style horror film.The film opens with two separate confusing albeit connected scenes several years apart, one in Iraq the other in Italy before moving to present day Barcelona,Archaeologist Johan is hired to translate an old tablet found in the ancient city of Nippur. He is going through some tough financial times so does not question the job at first and discovers the inscription is an invocation to open the gates of Ereshkigal the ancient Mesopotamian underworld, There are odd appearances of sand everywhere and the occasional odd glimpse of something dark.There are some interesting ideas here but it does not have enough gravitas impact to pull it all together into a cohesive whole, the one dimensional FBI agent should have been left out for a start.I've read quite a bit about the epic of Gilgamesh which has oblique links to this story, despite what the DVD cover says there is nothing related to Egypt here, it is all about Babylonian mythology. Obviously the blurb writer couldn't even be bothered to watch it himself or fell asleep part way through.There are no extras.

Absolutely awful. Low budget and badly written. The acting is not too bad but the story is just ridiculous. I spent the entire movie waiting for something to happen and nothing did, and the ending is just silly. A guy is paid by some old guy to translate and ancient Babylonian tablet. The synopsis of the movie states that he is an expert on translating Egyptian texts, but in the movie it is Babylonian. The writing on the tablet is part of a an ancient ritual to open the gates of hell. The man then begins to experience vivid dreams and to see apparitions of a women who vanishes suddenly. Nothing very original.

Nothing happens in this movie. This movie was a curse.

A bad movie where nothing happens! Acting is bad it's just nonsense! Don't waste your money!