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Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
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Wikipedia article
'Curse III: Blood Sacrifice' (also known as 'Panga') is a 1990 American horror film written and directed by Sean Barton. Although released as 'Curse III', it bears no resemblance to either 'The Curse' or 'Curse II: The Bite' and is a sequel in-name only.
Plot
Geoff Armstrong (Andre Jacobs) and his wife Elizabeth (Jenilee Harrison) run a large sugar plantation in East Africa in the 1950s. When Elizabeth and her sister interrupt the sacrifice of a goat by the local tribes people, the entire family becomes the focus of a curse placed by the local witch doctor, who calls forth an ancient demon from the sea to seek revenge on his behalf. As members of her family begins to disappear, seemingly victims of the ancient creature brought on by the curse and now living in their sugar cane, Elizabeth asks for help from Dr. Pearson (Christopher Lee) in the hope he may know a way to break the curse. The only way to break the curse is for Elizabeth to lure the Witch Doctor in a sugar cane field fire, where he perishes and the demon is destroyed, lifting the curse. However, the next morning Dr. Pearson discovers a bloody Panga on the beach and wonders if the monster was responsible for the deaths.
Production
The film was shot under the title of 'Panga' by Sean Barton, on location in South Africa in 1989. The creature effects were created by Chris Walas.
Release
The film was retitled 'Curse III: Blood Sacrifice' by the American distributors, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video who had also released 'Curse II: The Bite'. The film was released direct-to-video in 1990. Internationally it has been released under the titles 'Witchcraft', 'Curse III: Panga' and simply 'Blood Sacrifice'. Fangoria gave the film a negative review stating "There was 'The Curse', then 'Curse II: The Bite', and now 'Curse III', obvious right? Unfortunately the same brand of elementary thinking went into the plotting of this newest 'Curse' epic."
In 2017, the film was released on Blu-ray in the U.S. from Ronin Flix. Cinema Retro called the film "not a terrible film by any means, but neither is it a lost classic". TV Guide gave the film two out of four stars saying "A well-produced, British-made voodoo thriller, 'Curse III: Blood Sacrifice' is short on plot, but director Sean Barton admirably attempts suspense rather than gross-out bloodletting."
Sequel
When David Schmoeller's 'Catacombs' (1988) was released on VHS in 1993 by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, it was given the title 'Curse IV: The Ultimate Sacrifice', despite not being affiliated with the series.
References
Category:1990 horror films
Category:1990 films
Category:Films about curses
Category:Films shot in South Africa
Category:Direct-to-video horror films
Category:Shamanism in popular culture
Category:Films about witchcraft
Category:1990s English-language films
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