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Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002) -- A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.

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Antonio Olivas (writer)
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A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Karen Black ... Aunt Nelly
John Phillip Law ... Sheriff Murphy
Richard Lynch ... Old Man Prichard
Vernon Wells ... Jeremiah Stone

Martin Kove ... Caleb
Jeff Conaway ... Reverend Sutter
Brad H. Arden ... Forty-Niner
Sean Hines ... Nick Berman

Carrie Bradac ... Claire Berman

Stephen Wastell ... Axl (as Steve Wastell)
Sangie ... Tori
Rick Majeske ... Hayden (as Rich Majeske)

Elina Madison ... Rox Ann

Alexandra Ford ... Eve
Shadrach Smith ... Jared
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Curse of the 49er (USA) (MIFED title)
Miner's Massacre (USA) (video title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for horror violence, sexuality and language.
Runtime:
86 min
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Continuity: The Miner throws his shovel at Roxann who is in the driver's seat of the explorer. The shovel is oriented blade up as he throws it and as it flies towards the explorer. But when the shovel hits and goes through the windshield it is blade down. A few moments later it is shown embedded and it is blade up again. more
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A Miner Variation In The Key Of Jeepers Creepers, 25 July 2004
3/10
Author: dmsesquire from St. Louis, Missouri

The monster will look very familiar to you. So will the rest of the film, if you've seen a half-dozen of these teenagers-trapped-in-the-woods movies. Okay, so they're not teenagers, this time, but they may as well be. Three couples decide it might be a good idea to check out a nearly-abandoned ghost town, in hopes of finding the gold that people were killed over a scant century-and-a-half before. You'd think that with a title like "Miner's Massacre" some interesting things might happen. They don't. In fact, only about 1/10 of the film actually takes place in the mine. I had envisioned teams of terrified miners scampering for their lives in the cavernous confines of their workplace, praying that Black Lung Disease would get them before The Grim Reaper exacted his grisly revenge, but instead I got terrestrial twenty-somethings fornicating--and, in one case, defecating--in the woods, a gang of morons with a collective I.Q. that would have difficulty pulling a plastic ring out of a box of Cracker Jacks, much less a buried treasure from an abandoned mine. No suspense, no scares, and plenty of embarrassing performances give this turkey a 3 for nudity.

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