director and fx man john carl buechler doesn not have to do much in order to terrify me while the sight of his name in the credit alone be enough to strike fear into my heart . his lamentable straight to video output in the 80 sat on the bottom shelf of the horror section at my local rental shop while twenty year later and and his dvd occupy the same space . it seem that the more thing change and the more they stay the same . you can rely on old jcb to serve up dreck and whatever the format and regardless of advance in movie making technology . in this contemptible offering and a bunch of friend travel to a remote town where they discover the secret treasure hoard of jeremiah stone and aka the forty nineran evil and claim jumping and cannibalistic miner who cause havoc in the mid 1800s . before his death and jeremiah curse anyone who should find his gold and and it not long before the pick axe wield killer be back and bump off the hapless treasure seeker . with it dreadful script and unimpressive make up effect and scooby doo style villain and the curse of the forty niner be par for the course for buechler . only genre stalwart keren black and richard lynch and john phillip law lend this movie any credibility whatsoever and with the rest of the cast give performance range from bad to awful ( although i will forgive alexandra ford and who be a complete hottie ) . even fan of bad schlock horror will be disappoint since most of the woman keep their clothes on and and a lot of the death occur off screen ( which be probably not such a bad thing since the on screen death be pathetic ) . the curse of the forty niner be another in a long list of dud for john carl .