Curse III: Blood Sacrifice (1991)

Director:

Sean Barton

Writer:

Sean Barton

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

In 1950s Africa, a tribal magician calls up a demon to kill Europeans. |

Plot Keywords:

Demon | Africa | 1950s | Part Of Trilogy | East Africa

Cast

Christopher Lee	...	Doctor Pearson
Jenilee Harrison	...	Elizabeth Armstrong
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Henry Cele	...	Mletch
Olivia Dyer	...	Olivia Steed
Gavin Hood	...	Robert
Andre Jacobs	...	Geoff Armstrong (as André Jacobs)
Pepsi Mabizela
John Madiala
Max Mkwanzi
Gowrie Naidoo
Zanelle Negide
Charles Ngcoya
Gugu Nhlanga
Lorraine Nyathikazi
Zoe Randall	...	Anthea Steed
Dumi Shongwe	...	Witch Doctor
Jennifer Steyn	...	Cindy

Directed by
Sean Barton

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Sean Barton

Produced by
Christopher Coy	....	producer
Barrie Saint Clair	....	line producer
Patricia Shorten	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Julian Laxton
Patric van Blerk

Cinematography by
Phillip Grosvenor

Film Editing by
Micki Stroucken

Production Design by
Jon-Jon Lambon

Art Department
David Glasscoe	....	stand-by props

Special Effects by
Peter Greenwood	....	special effects technician
Beverly McLeish	....	special effects
Chris Walas	....	monster design

Stunts
Gavin Mey	....	stunts

Other crew
Victoria Slater	....	production executive

Production Companies

• Blue Rock Films

Distributors

• RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (USA) (VHS)
• RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (USA) (laserdisc)

Also Known As:

"Panga" - , USA (TV title)

Runtime:

USA:91 min

Country:

UK | South Africa

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:M | UK:18 | USA:R

Company:

Blue Rock Films

Movie Connections:

Follows The Curse (1987)

A unique idea that turns into a stupid, annoying and dull horror film

A group of westerners disrupt a religious ceremony involving a goat that is about to be sacrifice. In doing so it makes the voodoo priest very angry, so he summons a demon to take revenge on those people.

This was one very peculiar b-grade film with voodoo/slasher/monster elements, but with those features it's still basically a poor run-of-a mill horror film, that takes itself far to seriously. I haven't watched the first two films, so I don't know if this film relates back to the others.

There's not much to recommend- but the saving grace of the film is Christopher Lee, in which he brings some added class. Also the beautifully lush and exquisite African setting / atmosphere makes it a bit bearable.

While whenever Lee graced the screen it added some interest- but I can't say the same about the rest of the cast. It was to bad that the main female lead was annoying and stupid, that you wished that the demon would just finish the job. And the bloody demon seems to takes it's sweet time to finish off its victims by dragging out the scenes (especially towards the end). While Christopher Lee and Jenilee Harrison characters had 'SOME' depth, the rest of the supporting cast were too one-dimensional and lack any detail of any sort, by being pretty much stereotypical and waiting for their turn on the chopping block.

The special effects were inferior. The demon looked like a stupid rubber lizard from a Godzilla film, while carrying a machete in it's hand just looked bizarre. The movie had some blood and a tad of gore, but still it's minor stuff.

The story was very odd one, but it didn't stop it from being quite tiresome in parts and cliché ridden. Really, the characters just got on my nerves… especially the heroine and the dumb little girl (you would know what I mean when you see it). Like I typed early there is a mixture of horror elements: the first half of the film feels like a slasher, as we are to think that somebody from the group is possibly the killer, with red herrings thrown in and we don't see nothing but machete doing the damage. While the second half (the part that lost my interest and boredom followed) plays the heroine being stalked by an unknown creature and she is frantically looking for help. In which case we actually see the menace and I found it incredibly bad and laughable. While, the voodoo element gels the other two together.

1.5/5