The Curse (Wicked Vision Collector's Series #23) (Blu-ray/DVD Mediabook) [Germany]

pygospa · April 7, 2020

Release : 14.12.2018

Link (Wicked Shop) : Sold out

Price : €29,99

Limited : 888 copies

Thanks to @Grendel and his announcement in this post I've decided to open up two threads for two Wicked Vision releases we hadn't talked about, yet. The first one is an European premiere, not only on Blu-ray, there also hasn't been a DVD release in Europe since this release: Based on H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Colour Out of Space", debuting director David Keith (Firestarter) was supported by Lucio Fulci (House by the Cemetery, Don't Torture a Duckling, etc) as producer for his 1987 movie "The Curse", staring Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Big Bang Theory). It's a classic gothic story, that has a typical American 80s horror movie vibe, and comes with a lot of nice practical effects. In Germany this movie was only available for a pretty short period of time when it was released on VHS, as soon the German "Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien" (Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons) deemed it so harmful that in 1989 it was "indexed" (i.e. forbidden to be sold) for 25 years. It got removed in 2014 but only in 2018 Wicked Vision got around to finally do an release nearly 30 years after it's initial release in Germany. And interestingly, without knowing it beforhand they realized that the German first released - even though claimed to be uncut - was actually shorter than the masters they had: There's an extra 3 minutes of never before seen scenes in the German release!

The release is a typical 2-Disc Mediabook edition, but untypical for Wicked Vision there is only one single cover of their "Collector's Series" #23. The 24 paged booklet is completely in German, and rather heavy on the text side (going deep into the works of Lovecraft and how "The Colour Out of Space" influenced many other movies besides "The Curse"), and also the extras are a bit sparse, especially if you are not German-speaking: There is a really great German audio commentary, but that's it. other than that we get a trailer and a slide show. If you where among the 150 first pre-orders you however also got a limited postcard. All in all still a pretty decent release, great picture quality and worth your time (and money).

Here's a trailer: