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A young girl is possessed by the spirit of her aunt, who died as a child in a car accident. Soon, people around her begin to mysteriously die off.A young girl is possessed by the spirit of her aunt, who died as a child in a car accident. Soon, people around her begin to mysteriously die off.A young girl is possessed by the spirit of her aunt, who died as a child in a car accident. Soon, people around her begin to mysteriously die off.
Beverly Murray
- Vivian Gimble
- (as Beverley Murray)
Sonny Forbes
- L'inspecteur
- (as Sony Forbes)
Peter MacNeill
- Gimble en 1935
- (as Peter McNeil)
Sylvie Lenoir
- Mme Gimble
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaTo date, Cathy's Curse is the first and only film appearance of Randi Allen who portrayed the titular role. In a 2015 interview, Allen stated that she and her brother Bryce Allen, who also appeared in the film, only worked as child actors to financially support their single mother. Allen said she had no desire to continue acting and retired after her one and only film role.
- GoofsWhen the mother rushes to quiet Cathy while the dog barks, she opens the door to the bedroom and no one's in the bed, then the next shot Cathy's instantaneously there in it.
- Quotes
Gimble en 1935: Your mother is a bitch. She'll pay for what she did to you.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Terror on Tape (1985)
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Possession
Possessed by the spirit of her aunt, who died in a childhood car accident, a young girl acquires supernatural powers in this strange Canadian variation on 'The Omen' and 'The Exorcist'. The film gets off to a mediocre start with a poorly edited, intertitle-heavy exposition segment that tells us the circumstances by which the aunt died even though it has little bearing on the plot. The film improves somewhat as it cuts to decades later with an expressive Randi Allen well cast as the young protagonist who gradually progresses from using foul language to becoming totally unhinged as the movie plods along. The doll that she finds (and which supposedly leads to the possession) is pretty creepy too; same goes for a painting upstairs with glowing eyes. Unfortunately none of the adult actors here are up to Allen's level. Beverly Murray is particularly over-the-top as her overbearing mother and the less said about the man who plays a constantly coughing drunk who she befriends the better. The biggest issue (or 'curse' if you like) with the film though is that it never really makes up its mind what it wants to be. There is no tangible motivation driving the possessed aunt and a lot of what Allen does comes off as weird for the sake of it. The film does benefit from a pulsating music score and refreshingly minimal (decent) special effects, but to what end here is uncertain.
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- Also known as
- Cathys Fluch
- Filming locations
- 61 Ch Belvédère, Westmount, Quebec, Canada(Gimble house)
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- Budget
- CA$840,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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