The Cursed

How did this movie get made?  Seriously.  You can't tell me that the producers were sober when this movie received the green light.

Way back during the Reconstruction Era of the South after this particular plantation owner freed his slaves, he decided to work his land by himself.  Of course he couldn't, so he bought some cattle to raise.  But the cattle died.  And like any sensible person, after cursing God, he turned to the devil to sell his soul and become a demon to roam the Earth for generations to kill people and livestock whenever he wanted.

Present day.

Enter in the great, great grandson of the plantation owner, Denny White.  He has come back to this small town in Tennessee to do some research in a book that he is writing and to meet up with an old friend.  But once he gets into town, people and livestock start dying and disappearing.

With the help of the town librarian, Denny is able to get some information about his family history and also speak to another person who had seen the demon and lived to tell about it.  Things go from bad to worse when the townspeople decide to go hunting for the demon and end up as victims themselves.

Denny and the sheriff figure out that they need to go to the old plantation to put this demon to rest.  Shots are fired, Molotov cocktails are thrown, and the demon burns to death.  But the catch is, whoever destroys the demon .. becomes the demon.  Ooohh!

The acting is weak, but it includes a couple of Medusa's Face alumni from Dinocroc and Sea Snakes (or Silent Venom).  The demon is part ghost, part solid.  So when they shoot at the demon, the only bullets that can kill it have to have a velocity of mach 20.  But after the demon has been shot, you can hit it with a board and set it on fire.  Really?  I mean, ... c'mon, ... really?

I found nothing redeeming about this movie.  Even the gratuitous sex scene was a time waster.  The story line was anemic.  And that is being kind.  The movie ended abruptly too.  For a demon that could change states from gas to solid, he was defeated rather easily and quickly.

I give this movie 0 out of 5 cow heads.