Being a huge horror fan most of my life I have always had a huge fascination with the ideas of cursed films. I remember reading up on the Poltergeist incidents and reading about the tragic helicopter crash from The Twilight Zone: The Movie. I was hooked on finding out more and more about films with curses and thinking that this concept of a cursed movie would make great television, books, and/or movies.
Then the wonderful streaming service Shudder released an episodically released, documentary show about such cursed films. Being more than thoroughly pleased with Horror Noir (a Shudder original documentary discussing the impact of African Americans in the horror genre), I decided to definitely give it a go.
So far there has only been one episode released tackling the classic, controversial, satanic-panic movie: The Exorcist (1974 dir. William Friedkin). I grew up watching The Exorcist on my old VHS player and being instantly infatuated with the crazy and fatal background of the movie. However, when I watched the first episode of Cursed Films, I was disappointed. The beginning of the episode went how I expected, discussing deaths and accidents that happened surrounding and during filming.
But that topic seemed to have only lasted a very short amount of time. Before I knew it, the episode veered off topic from the movie, to in depth discussions of the correlation between horror and religion and then showing us the day and life of a real life Exorcist. As a viewer I understand that in order to drive your point home, you need to give deeper details and background. But they seem to give you an overload on background to the point where it's no longer on topic or The Exorcist. This show has transformed to one thing and then ending up as a totally different new thing that doesn't correlate.
However, I'm not damning the show. I find that the show, in fact, does have great potential to be very fun. I personally feel, in my OPINION, that it was a swing and a miss with this first episode. My advice is just stick with what you are supposed to be tackling.
Then the wonderful streaming service Shudder released an episodically released, documentary show about such cursed films. Being more than thoroughly pleased with Horror Noir (a Shudder original documentary discussing the impact of African Americans in the horror genre), I decided to definitely give it a go.
So far there has only been one episode released tackling the classic, controversial, satanic-panic movie: The Exorcist (1974 dir. William Friedkin). I grew up watching The Exorcist on my old VHS player and being instantly infatuated with the crazy and fatal background of the movie. However, when I watched the first episode of Cursed Films, I was disappointed. The beginning of the episode went how I expected, discussing deaths and accidents that happened surrounding and during filming.
But that topic seemed to have only lasted a very short amount of time. Before I knew it, the episode veered off topic from the movie, to in depth discussions of the correlation between horror and religion and then showing us the day and life of a real life Exorcist. As a viewer I understand that in order to drive your point home, you need to give deeper details and background. But they seem to give you an overload on background to the point where it's no longer on topic or The Exorcist. This show has transformed to one thing and then ending up as a totally different new thing that doesn't correlate.
However, I'm not damning the show. I find that the show, in fact, does have great potential to be very fun. I personally feel, in my OPINION, that it was a swing and a miss with this first episode. My advice is just stick with what you are supposed to be tackling.