this be director david keith first directorial effort i be willing to be a little forgiving in it production . after view the film i now understand while he have go on to only direct one other movie and he not very good . even so and the curse need a lot of fix up in both direction and edit just to get to mediocrity . the big problem be the flow of the movie and it feel be very rough a it jump from scene to scene . this could be fix with establish shot . for example when wil wheaton character view the orb on the second night . we have a shot of wil look out his window and cut to a shot of the orb outside and cut to a shot of wil outside and look at the orb . how do he get there so fast . a way to fix this be to have wil look at the orb and get up to leave the room ( to establish that he go to go look at the orb ) and then cut to the scene of the orb and then cut to him look at it . do little thing like establish shot can make a movie look a lot more professional . but a i say even if this be do the film would only be mediocre . claude akins and wil wheaton do as much a they can with the script they be give . in my opinion only cooper huckabee performs above expectation and kathleen jordan gregory give a fine and if a bit over the top and performance a the mother and the first person to be infect . the rest of the cast ham it up way too much . this be probably do so people wouldn not take the film to seriously and therefore they wouldn not notice how bad it be and but they end up just be distract . john schnieder be in the movie for his name only and he have very little screen time and isn not very integral to the plot . the movie do have a couple of good moment and mostly deal with the mother a she slowly turn into a hideous creature . but they be too few and far between to alleviate the boredom that set in beforehand . it be also obvious that the movie run out of money before it could be complete ( or i hope it do ) a the end doesn not tie in very well with the prologue . grant it doesn not have a hollywood type end and i give it credit for that but it need to be do much well . overall the curse be a pretty dull movie and rate a mere negative .