Curdled (1996)

After getting interested in murder as a kid in Colombia, Gabriela now has a scrapbook on murders including clippings on "The Blue Blood Killer". While cleaning his latest murder scene in Miami, she comes across a clue missed by the cops.

Director:

Reb Braddock

Writers:

Reb Braddock, John Maass

Stars:

William Baldwin, Angela Jones, Bruce Ramsay

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
William Baldwin	...	Paul Guell
Angela Jones	...	Gabriela
Bruce Ramsay	...	Eduardo
Lois Chiles	...	Katrina Brandt
Barry Corbin	...	Lodger
Mel Gorham	...	Elena
Daisy Fuentes	...	Clara
Carmen López	...	Lourdes
Vivienne Sendaydiego	...	Eva
Caridad Ravelo	...	Joan
Sandra Thigpen	...	Grace
Kelly Preston	...	Kelly Hogue
Lupita Ferrer	...	Marie Clement
Sabrina Profitt	...	Red Haired Waitress (as Sabrina Cowan)
Charley Tucker	...	San the Barback (as Charles J. Tucker)

Storyline

Gabriella, a Colombian immigrant, is obsessed with understanding violent crime. The current string of murders by "The Blue Blood Killer" of affluent Miami socialites provides her with fodder for her scrapbook of death. She lands a job with a post-murder cleaning service and during a Blue-Blood clean-up job, discovers evidence that police have overlooked.

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Plot Keywords:

bubble gum | psychotronic film | scene of the crime | serial murder | death | 

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Taglines:

And you thought your job sucked

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence/gore, and for brief language

Did You Know?

Trivia

This movie has three connections to Quentin Tarantino. 1. references From Dusk Till Dawn which he wrote and co-starred 2. it was done by his production company and 3. the star of this movie Angela Jones played the cab driver in his Oscar winning independent film pulp fiction, that helps butch make his getaway and who is morbidly fascinated by killing a man Esmerelda Villalobos.

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Goofs

Paul removes the top middle bolt twice.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Young Gabriela: Mommy, is this the house from Hansel and Gretel?
Young Gabriela's Mother: Yes, Gabriela.
Young Gabriela: Where's the witch?
[gunshots outside]

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Crazy Credits

SPOILER At the very end of the credits, after the copyright notice, there is a scene showing Gabriela driving a car, with Eduardo, playing the tape she recorded with Paul's voice saying her name after his death.

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Alternate Versions

Originally, the film ended with a slow motion shot of geese flying south as the main character did a voice over but director Reb Braddock decided to save that for his next film, "When fun goes south with the geese."

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Connections

References From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

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Soundtracks

Matador
Written by Flavio Cianciarulo
Performed by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs

User Reviews

Limp "black comedy"

This is a very typical early 90's black comedy which menas that it's jarringly aware of it's own cleverness, shares the same faded primary colors as "Natural Born Killers" or "Freeway", and involves a serial killer. Frankly for anything like this to work it would need some basis in reality and the fact that William Baldwin kills women without using gloves avoiding touching things or even getting rid of his fingerprints immediately annoyed me. Nothing in this movie is real enough or gruesome enough to actually be funny or disturbing. The director poars on the stage blood but every murder is done in a clean emotionless tarantino type of way and all the crime scenes just contain neat little pool of blood. haven't they ever read that after a week you have to wear thigh length boots to prevent maggots from crawling up your legs or that you wear air masks when cleaning up these places or that most of it is done with an ultrapowful wet-dry vac? realistic details such as these would have helped this film. After reading that this was a short I could believe it because the entire film feels like it was very thinly stretched.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Spanish

Release Date:

27 September 1996 (USA)

Also Known As:

Curdled

Filming Locations:

Coral Gables, Florida, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$2,300,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$16,294, 29 September 1996

Gross USA:

$49,620

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$49,620

Company Credits

Production Co:

A Band Apart, Tinderbox Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color