Cursed Films - Season 1
TV Season
A documentary series focusing on film productions that were infamously 'cursed'. Season 1 features...
Day of the Dead (1985)
Movie
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Poltergeist III (1988)
Movie
Psychically attuned youngster Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke) is sent to live in Chicago with her...
Death Line (1972)
Movie
Low-budget British-American horror movie. A student couple come across an unconscious man on a...
Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life
Book
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LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Cursed Films - Season 1 in TV
Oct 7, 2020
When this series is focused on the films themselves, it's a real treat. Some of the interviews are moving as hell - in particular the conversations with Richard Sawyer, Lance Anderson, Jeff Most, and Gary Sherman. These guys are to this day still affected by some of the things that happened during their film productions.
The Twilight Zone episode includes footage of the infamous on set accident which is genuinely haunting, and is honestly a really powerful part of the documentary having Sawyer's interview running alongside it.
The Crow episode is great as well, and the look we get at Anderson's relationship with Brandon Lee is so human and raw.
These moments really shine a light on how ridiculous the curse theories are, when in fact, they are just tragic events that effected real people, people who then had to deal with a following media circus.
The big thing I really didn't like about this series is only really relevant to The Omen and Exorcist episodes. It's almost like they didn't have enough material to fill the runtime of these segments, and so opt to pad it out with interviews with real exorcists, or magicians that practice black magic. I'm sure that there are interesting stories to be told by these people, but it feels really out of place and forced here. It's even cringe inducing at times and feels like very obvious filler. It detracts somewhat from what is otherwise a pretty solid documentary series.
Cursed Films is certainly an interesting watch, and is easy to digest in the 30 minute episodes that are presented. Also, that theme music is wild (found out it's by an Italian space-prog band from the 70s called I Signori Della Galassia!)
Worth a watch for sure, just ignore the silly filler parts.