This is a threadbare, lamentable movie that barely has enough professional sheen to pass as a commercial feature. There's clearly an idea behind it and some hard work and effort went into it, but not enough to make any investors stump up the cash needed to make it come to life. Camera work, editing, sound and special effects all look like home movie work. The sound is particularly bad, it's very muffled and distorted, and (as other reviewers have pointed out), the colour of the movie has suffered badly on most available copies, and everything looks a shade of muddy orange. Thank goodness for colour hue adjustment on modern PCs, which at least helped me improve this on my viewing!The plot sees a family move into a large new home. The daughter, a young girl named Cathy, finds a creepy doll and becomes possessed by the spirit of it's former owner. Under this influence she terrorises and kills friends and family members in some rather odd supernatural ways. Most of what happens in the running time is brain-testingly boring, but a few scenes did actually stand out for me. The one strength of the film is the young Randi Allen in the role of Cathy, who has just the right kind of ominous stare to make her character actually appear creepy, and she even has some acting skill. All the other acting is dreadful. Cathy's mother Vivian is particularly intolerable, plus she has the weirdest zombie eyes of any actress I've ever seen without makeup. A low budget can work if the film is saved by a good script or good acting, but here we don't have the required acting talent, and putting that together with a dreadful script and poorly planned scenes really make the film fall apart from beginning to end. It's actually a chore to watch. The only times I l did find I was enjoying looking at the screen was when Randi Allen was cursing and screaming at people, and a couple of times when the eyes on a spooky portrait in the attic went all evil and glowing. This spooky portrait, plus the doll with it's eyes sewn shut are the only two decent ideas in the film. Actually, I'll be generous, although I moaned about the terrible ambient sound, some of the creepiness of the film does come from the soundtrack, when some effective slowed-down voices and laughter adds atmosphere in some of the spooky scenesThe makers of Cathy's Curse have a lot to be grateful for in Randi Allen for playing the title role of Cathy straight. If this pivotal role had been bungled by a really bad child actress, then "Cathy's Curse" would be a total laughing stock worthy of Doris Wishman comparison. Actually, that might have propelled it into higher cult status. As it stands, its just one more super-cheap attempt at serious horror that fails to deliver.

I give this movie a ten because it's so bad. I really believe this was written by the old man, Paul, who probably was a teacher in a local drama department somewhere up there where it was filmed. Paul is so bad I love it when he coughs like he has pneumonia as he's walking outside in one of the scenes. The mother is absolutely awful and what a bitch! She couldn't act her way out of a paper bag. The dad is just was bad and he was suppose to a real actor. The medium woman is just awful but when she breaks out in some kinda of possessed state I just busted a gut laughing! Cathy is awful as well and there is nothing scary about her or this movie at all. I don't know what style house they lived in but there was something wrong with it too. Oh yeah it's very grainy poor quality filming. Hope you like it he-he!

Young Cathy gets taken by her parents to visit the old family home in Quebec where the spirit of her late aunt, her father's sister takes over her and people and animals start dying mysterious deaths around her. Only her clueless dad doesn't see the connection, but there's a photograph of his late sister who was killed at around the same age Cathy is now which anyone who has eyes can see the resemblance. They don't even need the medium who comes and visits to figure all this out.This French-Canadian production is more tedious than chilling and it's got acting performances that belong in high school plays. The color print I saw is completely washed out and gray and will also put you to sleep. Pass it by folks.

There is one good thing I can say about this Canada/France co-production, and that is unlike many filmmakers in Canada or France, they were not making another boring art movie, and were instead trying to make something entertaining. But their attempt to make something mainstream fails in every other way you can think of. It's a real cheap movie - it seems they blew almost all of the budget on the classic car they destroy at the beginning of the movie. It actually seems that they didn't have enough money to shoot every scene in the script, seeing how *constantly* important actions take place off-camera, and that the beginning of the movie would be incomprehensible had the filmmakers not added written on screen text explaining things. The movie is poorly photographed (a Canadian trademark) in depressing-looking Quebec locations in winter, it has shabby special effects, and things happen that make no sense (what was the point of the scene with the rats and snakes?) If I could vote "zero" for this movie, I would, but for now I have to stick with IMDb's lowest available vote of one.