Curdled (1996) 6/10

Once again i've rented a flick from the rue-morgue horror 101 list of unknown gems. Curdled is not a film i would consider a gem, but toy jewelry.

Produced by none other then Quinton Tarintino at the height of his post-pulp fiction popularity, Curdled is about a woman obsessed with death and murder. She gets a job cleaning up crime scenes and discovers that one of her clients was murdered by a notorious serial killer. She becomes obsessed with the house and tries to figure out how and why the serial killer did his victims in, only she's not alone in the house. The killer is still there, watching her every move!

The film plays as a black comedy and all the murders are grotesquely funny. The director goes out of his way to make the lead character likeable, understandable and harmless. We don't see her as a freak or a pervert, just curious. The characters are watchable and the acting is pretty good as well as the direction. All the gore and murder is off camera which is disappointing given the subject matter. Nothing in any department that truly stands out though. The problem with the film is that the pacing is terrible. Our lead actress only meets the killer in the last 15 minutes of the film and its too little too late. The film feels like it has a short first act, an unbearably long second act, and a much too short third act. That being said it was amusing but not worth going too far out of your way to check it out.

Gore - none

Nudity - none

Overall - 6/10