The Cursed (2021)
During the Battle of the Somme, a French captain is wounded. He is taken to the hospital tent and he had three bullets removed from him. A fourth is also found but it is different than the rest, larger and made of silver.
Thirty-five years earlier a group of Romani makes a claim to some land in the French countryside in the 1880s. They melt down some silver coins and fashion a set of fangs that look like a wolf's but are set in a human skull.
The landowners, not wanting to lose their land the landowners have the Romani all killed. Their old witch is buried alive with the silver fangs.
Soon everyone in town is having the same nightmare. The kids of the landowner and the tenants go out to where the old woman is buried and dig up the fangs. One of them puts them into his mouth and bites Edward, the landowner's son. Edward falls into a fever and is bedridden. But soon he runs out of the house into the nearby woods.
A pathologist, John McBride (Boyd Holbrook) arrives. He has been following the Romani. Soon people start dying from "animal" attacks. We learn that John has seen this all before in Gévaudan. He collects clues and determines it is the curse of the teeth that has turned Edward into a beast and anyone he attacks.
Few more deaths till the final battle in the church. John manages to shoot Edward with his silver bullet but hits Isabell, Edward's mother, as well.
John takes Edward and Charlotte to live with him since their mother and father are now dead and their manor burned down. Charlotte gives John the three unused silver bullets. We see that the captain from beginning is an adult Edward. Edward dies on the operating table and we see a older Charlotte giving and bed ridden elderly John the last bullett.
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So yeah this one was fun. Recovering from a bad migrane this morning (and I just told my doctor on Wednesday it had been months since I had one and I might need anymore Sumatriptan.) So I am calling it a night. But I really should work up the Beast of Gévaudan.
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Have you ever read "St.Peter's Wolf?" It's a novel from '91 about a set of canine/wolf teeth set in silver, that seem to drive some people 'mad' and a few uncomfortable. The lead character tries them on, because of them creating obsession and well...it's a werewolf book. Has some squicky content, but I enjoyed it back in the day. Rereading it wasn't as interesting (either because the squick wasn't something I remembered, or something that was edited out in the original.)
ReplyDeleteNo, but I will check it out.
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