THE SPANIARD'S CURSE might sound like a horror movie but it turns out to be your usual routine court-based crime thriller, in which a man is sentenced to death only to call down an ancient curse on the men sentencing him. While a journalist begins to investigate the circumstances surrounding the initial crime, others begin to die, raising the question as to whether the curse is coming true.
If this all sounds rather half-hearted, that's because it is. THE SPANIARD'S CURSE is routinely plotted and directed, never rising above a level of mildly watchable tedium. Certainly the film lacks the kind of suspense that you'd expect from the premise and the solution to the mystery, when it is finally revealed, is strictly predictable. Lee Patterson is rather bland as the leading man although you do get to see Michael Hordern as a judge.
If this all sounds rather half-hearted, that's because it is. THE SPANIARD'S CURSE is routinely plotted and directed, never rising above a level of mildly watchable tedium. Certainly the film lacks the kind of suspense that you'd expect from the premise and the solution to the mystery, when it is finally revealed, is strictly predictable. Lee Patterson is rather bland as the leading man although you do get to see Michael Hordern as a judge.