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Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Back in 1947, a man learns that his wife has left and taken their five-year-old son, George. His daughter, Laura, is a crying mess, but her father yells that, "Your mother is a bitch! She'll pay for what she did to you!" They race out into the snow and narrowly miss hitting a white rabbit. The car crashes and they burn to death.When he grows up, George moves back into his family home with his clinically insane wife Vivian and daughter Cathy. George is really happy that Cathy is adjusting so well, which upsets his wife, because he always judges how crazy she is.Well, Cathy isn't doing so well. She sees Laura's face in the mirror and has started to play with the dead girl's doll. When anyone tries to take the doll, she throws her cereal across the room, to which the maid answers, "Don't worry about it!" No. Much like The Babadook and Manhattan Baby, the majority of these supernatural kid problems come down to bad parenting.Basically, this movie is a collection of Cathy doing crazier and crazier things, like getting neighborhood kids to re-enact the car crash that started the film, which includes making young boys say things like, "All women are bitches." Then she tries to stab a girl's eyes out.Then she throws a maid out the window in a scene that has nothing to do with The Omen.There's also a medium who shows up just to hang out and see the past through a photograph, yelling out moments of the car crash. Because you know, that's what you do when ladies lunch. She keeps coming back to try and stop Cathy, but the first time she's scared off when the little girl is rude and calls her an old bitch and a fat whore. This being Canada, one can see how that level of improper behavior could scare off anyone. But she comes back a third time and Cathy conjures another old woman who refers to her as "not a medium, but an extra rare piece of s**t," a line I will be using quite often.The handyman agrees to watch her, but she keeps making him drink. Then, she kills his dog.Cathy's powerset is never clearly defined. She can teleport. She can become other people. She can change her voice. She can shake, smash, move and explode objects. She can make food go bad just by looking at it! What else can she do?That said — the reason why Laura's ghost possesses Cathy is never really defined either. Does she want to get back at George? Does she want to be alive again? Does she want Cathy to die when she tries to drown her? Does she want to kill Cathy's mom? You'll wonder, too!Even the ending makes no sense!So you'd think I hated this movie. No. I loved it. It has no establishing shots. Characters and subplots float in and out and are never referenced again. None of this matters to me. The fact that a seven-year-old girl has glowing eyes and a filthy mouth and is out to kill people makes me filled with joy.Read more at http://bit.ly/2xkobic

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.

This movie, called Cathy's Curse here in the U.S., was one I was long curious about since the early '80s when I saw a commercial of it on TV. The version I got was on VHS from Continental Video that I bought from a used video store called Grand Cinema Station. Unlike the shoddy prints I attempted to watch on various internet sites, the one I finally saw looked decent enough. The movie itself had some effective scenes involving rats, snakes, and a tarantula for an elderly babysitter that gets drunk and another involving the title character's mother as she's sitting in a watered bathtub with blood suddenly spurting from the faucet. But those would usually be followed by a lethargic pace where everything is temporarily normal again and one fights some sleep during those sequences. So in summation, Cauchemares has some pretty good scares but don't expect a logical story when viewing...

Kind of hard to be nice to this one. I watched it twice, trying to find something positive to say other than parts of it are unintentionally hilarious. But with low budget, ineptly made Canadian tax shelter horror that's sort of par for the course. If only the movie wasn't so boring and derivative, right down to the scene where the young mom is soaking in the bathtub and finds herself covered with leeches. Saw that one coming a mile away.There are a couple of eye opening aspects about the movie however, the most remarkable being the somewhat creative use of profanity and personal insults used not only in the presence of the young moppet at the center of the story, but by her as well. I've heard drunken Marines on leave argue over who's turn it is to pay for the next round who would blush at some of the things that were written to come out of her mouth. And they do, spoken with a relish that is somewhat disturbing: Did they explain to the young actress what the words meant? She can't be more than 11.In fact wondering about certain statistical aspects regarding the movie are more interesting than discussing the movie itself. Currently the film is going around in a moth eaten 82 minute print on bargain bin DVDs that shouldn't cost more than a nickel. I've managed to see the complete 88 minute version and it didn't improve matters much. There's one great howler of a scene where an old lady gets pitched out of a window, but I guess because of the presence of a young lady on the set the producers shied away from the nudity & gore that one would expect from a cheapo R rated Canadian tax shelter horror movie. There's a creepy old doll, an elderly family friend who is apparently welcome to drink as much booze as he can stomach while watching the young tyke, plus a drowning sequence for the young lass that looks a bit too hazardous for it's own good. Little Randi Allen must have grown up to be one twisted lady.What we are left with is a puzzling little film that tries to be mega-spooky but doesn't have the balls to be more than an oddity. Stranger still the film has developed sort of a cult following that is difficult to explain, unless they are all film students who are marveling at how to make a movie for less than your average Mastercard debit spending limit. Many seem to be referring to it as an EXORCIST clone, I am more reminded of THE OMEN with a touch of AUDREY ROSE mixed in for good measure.Is there anything to recommend it? Sure, if ultra low budget regional horror is your cup of tea. It's strange seeing a young actress being asked to do some of the things that are seen/heard on-camera, and the expected Freudian undertones are all over this cookie. And I guess if you are writing a chapter about Evil Child horror movies you shouldn't leave this one out.4/10