"Looks like a plague hit New York, man. An' if you catch that old woman's evil eye, you might as well be dead, because she'll get you in the end, one way or another."
Who knew that some terse words and a loaf of
bread is all it takes to extract a curse from a dying man? Well, in an unnamed Egyptian
city in 1919 – that’s how a mysterious presence was forcibly removed from some
poor soul thanks to the dedicated chanting of a crazed priest. Absorbed into said
loaf of bread, the intention was to divvy the evil bounty among a handful of
clearly delusional servants who would promptly die following consumption. It
looked like a win-win for the church and city at large; evil curse thing goes
away, and, as a bonus – there’s a few less mouths to feed.
Fast forward some 60-ish years (the timing isn’t
really a thing with this story), and what seems to be a random one-eyed
hunchback homeless person putting a curse on equally random upper class people
is anything but! No! This random weird looking angry lady is in fact from said
unnamed Egyptian city! And is now scaring the crap at passers by on the streets
of upper-class New York. Turns out old hunchback stole the cursed bread and ate
it all – the greedy b!tch! Rather than die, she became cursed with the evil eye,
and is rather well known in the criminal underworld…somehow…plot, like timing,
isn’t much of focus here…
The centre of attention revolves around a prominent
family business ran by the Forrester brothers; ruthless real estate moguls who double
as shady incestuous businessmen and the many curses bestowed upon them by the
scary hunchback lady. There’s a link to characters which plays out over time but
you need to suspend your belief; think Bold and the Beautiful Halloween Special
and you’ve got a good starting point.
Throw in a handful of mobsters, a pizza delivery guy, and a Chinese women held hostage by some very bad men and you’ve got a soupy mix of strange bundled into some awesome sauce of b-grade horror.
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