The Curse (1987) on Netflix
Zack lives on a Tennessee farm with his mother Frances, stepfather Nathan and sister Alice. A meteorite crashes on the property, and a strange liquid seeps into the soil and the well.
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A meteorite crashes onto the Crane family farm in Tellico Plains, Tennessee during a storm, and by morning it is a sphere with a hard shell that oozes a noxious liquid. Alan Forbes, a doctor living nearby, examines it and wants to alert the authorities. Charlie Davidson, a realtor who heads the chamber of commerce, argues against it, hoping the Tennessee Valley Authority will still choose the town for a new reservoir, and Esther, Forbes' wife, pushes her husband to keep quiet as well. The object dissolves into a gelatinous liquid that soaks into the soil. Then the well water turns cloudy and tastes bad, the fruit and vegetables grow large but are rotten inside, and the livestock turn violent.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Curse (1987)
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- Wil Wheaton alleges that he, aged 13, and his 9-year-old sister Amy were abused and exploited during production, working 12-hour days across multiple units without breaks, and that under Lucio Fulci's direction Amy had live chickens tied to her body to peck her and her face deliberately cut with a scalpel.
- Teen actor Wil Wheaton was offered $100,000 to star, with his sister Amy given her acting debut as his on-screen sibling, but he disliked the script and the pay and accepted only because he felt pressured by his parents.
- Actor Treat Williams was reportedly set to co-star in The Curse, but he does not appear in the film.
- Trans World Entertainment wanted to shoot on a farm near Los Angeles, but director David Keith offered to move the production to a property he had just bought in his native East Tennessee, and the studio accepted.
- Many crew members on the film, including those working on the U.S. portion of the shoot, were Italians billed under American names, and director David Keith relied on an interpreter to communicate with them.
- The Curse has different scores for its American and Italian versions: the uncredited bluegrass-flavored American music is attributed in press to John Debney, while Franco Micalizzi composed the Italian score.
