ThiefHott Too much of everything

SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

terrible2 Certainly expected more after seeing the cast list, but WOW!I think a first time director could have done a better job with this project, and the fact that a veteran like John Buechler made it, puzzles me to no end. Somehow, the budget allowed them to secure a bevy of D-List actors, whom they succeeded in embarrassing for an hour and a half. The unknown actors were just plain awful, less Steve Wastell who does a decent job as Axl. The story is so bad, that it really needs no mention. The overall production value seems standard, with some above average camera work, if you can make it through the God-Awful "slo-mo" scenes and the painful "person on fire" sequences. I knew it would be dumb, I just had no idea how dumb, and unfortunately it's time spent that can never be returned to me. I suppose if you enjoy really bad "B" films, this might work for you, but if you value any story at all, this one is simply dreadful... A complete waste of time.

Paul Andrews Curse of the Forty-Niner starts as teenager Claire (Carrie Bradac) is chopping onions in her kitchen, her husband Nick (Sean Hines) comes in & gives her a letter sent from her brother Jared (Shadrach Smith) claiming he has found a gold mine in an abandoned town called Suttersville & includes a nice nugget of gold as proof. Sensing an opportunity to get rich quick Claire, Nick & some of their friends Axl (Stephen Westell) & Tori (Sangie) plus Hayden (Rick Majeske) & Rox Ann (Elina Madison) have driven to Suttersville before you could say 'there's gold in them thar hills'. Unfortunately while they do find lots of gold they quickly discover that because of an ancient curse anyone who takes it will be killed by the ghostly zombie miner from the dead named Jeremiah Stone (associate producer Vernon Wells) who really doesn't like people stealing his gold...Also known as Miner's Massacre & directed by John Carl Buechler this is yet another cheap, low budget teen slasher without a hint of originality & nothing particularly noteworthy to say about it. The script by Antonio Olivas is a really routine, predictable & uninspiring teen slasher in the vein of Halloween (1978) & Friday the 13th (1980) with a particular emphasis on My Bloody Valentine (1981) with it's murderous pick axe wielding miner. I don't really know what else to say about Curse of the Forty-Niner that I haven't already, this is just a complete rip-off of any slasher film you care to mention with a group of horny teen character's, a distinctive undead killer who uses mining tools to murder people, the locals who 'warn' the kids to stay away, local legends that come true & a fat Sheriff who thinks they are up to no good. This is just a very generic, predictable & somewhat forgettable flick. To be honest it's not the worst film of it's type for sure, the character's aren't too annoying, the killer is reasonably fun, it only lasts for about 80 minutes so it's short & it's alright but in no way spectacular. The first half of the film is the set-up, the kids finding the gold & Jeremiah Stone coming back to life while the second half is out & out slasher as the kids try to survive. I've seen worse but then again I've seen better.Director Beuchler is a bit of a jack of all trades with various credits for visual effects, special effects, producing, directing, acting & writing but he is perhaps best know as a special make-up effects artist with a lot of credits to his name. It then comes as a disappointment that Curse of the Forty-Niner is such a tame & relatively bloodless film, there's a bit of blood splatter, a decapitated head, a pick-axe briefly shown in someones stomach & a shovel stuck in someones throat is the sum total. The effects are of the cheap variety & there's nothing that memorable here which considering his background has to be a disappointment.Technically the film is competent even if the town of Suttersville consists of of about four buildings! There are a few small cameos here, Martin Kove makes a very brief appearance & is also credited as an associate producer, veteran actor John Phillip Law turns up as does Richard Lynch. The teen cast aren't great, I seen worse though.Curse of the Forty-Niner is a pretty bog standard average run of the mill teen slasher, it's not entirely horrible but the disappointing lack of gore & a forgettable predictable plot sinks it.

sol1218 (There Are Spoilers) Usual slasher film with the story taking place in and around this God-forsaken mine outside the almost deserted town of Sutterille. After receiving a letter map and gold nugget from her brother Jared, Shadrach Smith, Clair and her husband Nick Breman, Carrie Bradac & Sean Hines, drive to the village together with four other friends and armature gold-prospectors Alx & Tori, Steve Wastell & Sangie, and Hayden & Rox Ann, Rick Majeske & Elina to stake their claim. It later turns out that the fact that Jared disturbed the long-forgotten gold mine caused the ghost of the notorious Jeremiah Stone, Vernon Wells, to come back to life and with that restart his reign of terror. Stone, or 49er, is about the most ridicules slasher/killer in motion picture history. Stone looks like he was buried for years under a few tons of coal runs around with this hook slicing people in two. After doing in almost the entire cast local hermit Aunt Nelly, (Karen Black), who's daughter Eve (Alexandra Ford) was also one of Stone's victims, tells those still alive that unless they return the gold back to the Stone mine the crazed miner will never rest until he kills all those who still have it.Aunt Nelly is given just enough time to tell her story before she's turned into a human torch by Stone and ends up jumping into a nearby stream.The movie goes on endlessly with the killer miner on the rampage looking like he's about as scary as burnt toast and just as dark. Even those in the film seemed to show no real fear of him. In one scene when he broke into Aunt Nelly's house everyone inside all charged, instead of running away, him causing the ghost miner to lose his right arm; Stone spent the rest of the movie with a miner's pick attached to his "stump". Besides Actress Karen Black the film "Miners Massacre" also has veteran actors John Phillip Law and Richard Lynch as the town Sheriff Murphy and Old Man Prichard. Passable stuff but nothing special the movie has a predictable ending with the entire gold mine going up in flames. The audience given a hint by the makers of "Miners Massacre" that the end to this mindless lunacy is nowhere in sight and may very well resurface in the very near future in a possible sequel, God help us all!

El Charro this movie really SUCKS, SUCKS REALLY REALLY HARD, this movie should be in the Bottom 100, but it is so bad that almost nobody has seen it to vote for her so many times that it should be at the same time of "Manos - the Hands of Fate." I should have him position 1 (awful), but the reason for which I put him 2 was for Eve, the girl of the town that, besides some scenes of nudity, besides, I thought of voting for 3, but like they killed Eve, I returned at 2. it is that movies like this they should not be financed by anybody, since not even they took to the fame or other productions to the actors main, great falsehood, jaja, the history of a mining ghost that kills to "mansalva" and after they put an end to their misdeeds, it reappears, because with the end they shitted it very ugly. FINAL SCORE (VOTE): 2 (for the nudity and the performance of the beautiful Eve)