A great big steaming serving of fromage from Canada, Cathy's Curse is a truly bad film that manages to still be pretty entertaining due to terrible acting, horrible effects, choppy editing, lazy script, poor lighting, questionable costume design, dreary food, ill-conceived feng shui, bad attitude, foul breath, wrong crossword answers, and inability to replace toilet paper.
It's one of those films where a child gets possessed and starts harassing other people while they all live in a haunted house. I think. You see, years before, Cathy's Aunt was killed in a car crash by her (Cathy's) grandad, and her (Cathy's) dad has now moved into her (Cathy's) grandad's house with her neurotic mother (Cathy's). Cathy's (Cathy's) mother will wind you up right from the start as she's kind of the irritable type who starts fights with her husband while doesn't he do much fighting at all.
Cathy finds a doll upstairs in the attic and you next thing you next she's getting lippy with her parents, stabbing other kids in the eye and listening to Marlyin Manson. Her nanny takes a header out of a window and this quite rightly sends her mum round the bend. Her dad didn't seem too bothered mind.
If you've seen the Omen, or the Exorcist, or Beyond the Door 2 you'll get a general idea of what this film is all about, only it's much, much worse. Why her dead ghost Aunt was so angry we'll never know, nor shall we discover why she killed the dog, who seems to have been hired for its ability to walk backwards.
What you do get is particularly bad acting from the mum, the drunk guy, and the kid mixed with your usual haunted house effects (blood running from taps, doors closing, pictures shaking). I'm a sucker for such things, and as the film didn't bother trying to explain anything, it wasn't boring either.
It's one of those films where a child gets possessed and starts harassing other people while they all live in a haunted house. I think. You see, years before, Cathy's Aunt was killed in a car crash by her (Cathy's) grandad, and her (Cathy's) dad has now moved into her (Cathy's) grandad's house with her neurotic mother (Cathy's). Cathy's (Cathy's) mother will wind you up right from the start as she's kind of the irritable type who starts fights with her husband while doesn't he do much fighting at all.
Cathy finds a doll upstairs in the attic and you next thing you next she's getting lippy with her parents, stabbing other kids in the eye and listening to Marlyin Manson. Her nanny takes a header out of a window and this quite rightly sends her mum round the bend. Her dad didn't seem too bothered mind.
If you've seen the Omen, or the Exorcist, or Beyond the Door 2 you'll get a general idea of what this film is all about, only it's much, much worse. Why her dead ghost Aunt was so angry we'll never know, nor shall we discover why she killed the dog, who seems to have been hired for its ability to walk backwards.
What you do get is particularly bad acting from the mum, the drunk guy, and the kid mixed with your usual haunted house effects (blood running from taps, doors closing, pictures shaking). I'm a sucker for such things, and as the film didn't bother trying to explain anything, it wasn't boring either.