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      Cathy's Curse

      1977 1h 28m Horror List
      Reviews 8% Audience Score 100+ Ratings An 8-year-old girl (Randi Allen) becomes possessed, through a rag doll, by her demonic aunt. Read More Read Less

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      Madeleine Harmsworth Sunday Mirror (UK) A third-rate horror from Canada. Nov 20, 2023 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy A slack and often laughable horror yarn. Rated: 1.5/4 Apr 10, 2022 Full Review May Leitz Nyx Fears Clever subversion, accidentally...a beautiful mess, no other way I can think of describing it...constantly fascinated by what's happening on screen. Feb 11, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Pretty cool little Canadian rip-off of Exorcist and the Omen. It does the most it can with its meager budget. Some pretty unique moments. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 07/31/18 Full Review laurent b This is a rather nice movie, considering it has its flaws because of a low-budget, but the music, the story and atmosphere are pretty cool. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Pretty bland, it gets creepy at points but doesn't stick with the same scare. The little girl is very annoying and hard to watch, and the dialog is pretty unbearable as well. Typical plot with an alright story, but the execution fails at making it enjoyable. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Cathy's Curse is your standard 'child possessed by spirits' tale that you'll find in most movies around this time (and in a lot of movies today, as well). Family moves into house, weird stuff starts happening, child is possessed, etc, etc, etc. What's disappointing though is that the movie started out seeming to be a lark. It could have almost been a movie that was so bad that it's good, but it got really boring fast. The little girl, like in nearly all of these types of movies, is annoying and awful. Things never make much sense and there doesn't seem to be a real clear idea as to what is going on. It's all just thrown together without much thought, and it's a shame. A very strong idea that turned out terrible could have been fun, but as it stands, the movie is pretty awful and sleep-inducing. Seek it out only if you're looking for an example of just bad. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Yep it's an awful movie, but it's so awful that it's laughable, yes I was laughing my ass off when I was watching this. The effects are laughable, the editing was laughable, the acting was laughable, the dialogue was laughable, the story was laughable, the scares were laughable, and the camera quality was laughable, yep the whole film was laughable, so yeah if you want to see a horror that is so laughably bad, this is the film for you. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Mill Creek's 50 Movie Pack: Chilling Classics Reviews CAUCHEMARES/ CATHY'S CURSE [1977]: in the same vein as most other low budgets cash in attempts that were trying to be the next big demonic child horror film ala THE EXORCIST [1973] and THE OMEN [1976]. The 1977 film CATHY'S CURSE or also known under its bizarrely stupid original title CAUCHEMARES is another one of those demonic child films. This time around the film is about a young girl called Cathy who with her mother and father move back into the home of her father's youth which saw the tragic deaths of the her grandfather and young aunt in a car crash in 1947.Of course the little girl Cathy is soon possessed by her dead aunt and the rest writes itself. However it's a decent view but very unoriginal which is why it gets a 50% from me. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis An 8-year-old girl (Randi Allen) becomes possessed, through a rag doll, by her demonic aunt.
      Director
      Eddy Matalon
      Screenwriter
      Myra Clément, Eddy Matalon, Alain Sens-Cazenave
      Production Co
      Les Productions Agora, Maki films
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jun 30, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 28m