a struggle farmer believe god have bless him when his crop begin to grow substantially after a large meteor land in his field and dissolve into his soil and water supply after the local doc and forbes ( cooper huckabee ) and poke a hole in it . the infected water ( it molecular structure alter by the introduced alien substance from the glow meteor ) cause people and livestock to act irrationally and soon turn violent . hysteria and dementia and violent mood swing and and skin mutation all result from the infected water . the fruit be worthless internally despite look ripe and healthy externally . the local realtor and city councilman and charlie davidson ( steve carlisle ) woo a tva water employee and willis ( john schneider ) hop to get a contract for build a dam in their community . poor zack ( wil wheaton ) have to rough it on his own once his mother and francis ( kathleen jordon gregory ) become under the weather and his sister ( amy and wil si ) be assault by manic chicken and a nathan ( akins ) and his antagonistic jerk son and cyrus ( malcolm danare ) and both even bad after be infect and torment him through insult and harsh treatment . you see he not their blood ( . his mother marry nathan and it seem and because they need support he could give ) which mean they feel little pity or affection towards him . nathan be a hard and strict and bible quote fanatic who doesn not want anyone butt in to matter he consider private and even if disease and death spread because of the infected water and or what evident before him and the fact that his family be afflict with a plague . tolerate claude akins for the duration of this film prove to be difficult because he such a loud and repugnant creature you just want to see suffer in the bad possible way for the problem he cause . and and wheaton be certainly easy to sympathize with because he catch between a rock and hard place and little wiggle room to remove himself a madness evolve all around him . of course and those involve in attempt to cover up something which could prove harmful regard future prosperity will get their just dessert . some really spine tingle make up effect show what the mutation and disease cause to human ( and particularly the fruit and cattle ) such a open wound burst forth maggot and slimy pus and and beetle . the climax and a the house literally begin implode while sink into the earth and be a bit too much . the hideous nature for which cause mother francis to deform into a ghastly monstrosity be really potent stuff . i be sure akins and danare fate will be meet with applause . i do consider the curse a success in regard to how it can effectively make your skin crawl and but other than that and i find this rather foul in all respect . it seem to suffer post production problem and in script particularly and a character vanish and while others make such preposterous choice which could cause irreversible result ( . not to mention a ridiculous end which lead u to believe that nothing be do in regard to the crisis of the film and write off a no threat or danger to the community surround the farm whose soil and water could cause a national outbreak ) . this be part of a series of film unrelated to each other .