Mar 21, 2023
Death Curse of Tartu (1966)
"Now look, Billy, the human brain is very mysterious. Sometimes it makes us see things that don't exist and hear things that never were."
"How do you explain the people that were killed, then?"
#death curse of tartu#william grefé#1966#horror film#american cinema#fred pinero#babette sherrill#bill marcus#mayra gómez kemp#sherman hayes#gary holtz#maurice stewart#doug hobart#frank weed#brad f. grinter#more deep digging into the rural schlock misadventures of Florida's own H G Lewis‚ the singular Bill Grefé esq#somehow even less polished than previous monster mash Sting of Death‚ this is an almost maddeningly inept film#Greféy baby‚ to give him his dues‚ makes the most of his Everglades location but that's about all he nails#filled with subpar performances‚ an inexplicable and grotty script and delightfully naff effects#all of which sounds like i hated it but truthfully there are small joys to be found in this bizarre slop of nonsense#be it an impromptu disco party by a swamp‚ or the sullen way our chief archaeologist lead fishes for the remains of his students after a#poorly staged shark attack‚ or just trying to figure out whether or not Tartu is wearing pants in his final struggle (my verdict: he's#wearing some kind of flesh coloured tights). absolutely terrible as indie filmmaking but somehow irresistibly compelling as trash cinema