Winner of the Best Film Award at the 8th annual New York Underground Film Festival in 2001, CURSE OF THE SEVEN JACKALS is a film that seemed to come from out of nowhere. Mostly set in the hotel room that the crew inhabited during the two-week shoot, CURSE tells the story of Bernard, a synthetic blood test patient who dreams of traveling to Egypt, land of the Pharaohs. Helen, as played by the sublime non-actress Jill Carnes, is the hotel maid who takes Bernard out on the town for down-home karaoke and out-of-body bingo experiences. Like a semi-conscious sci-fi dream as directed by early Andy Warhol, filmmaker Chris Jolly's seminal American underground feature was made with an antiquated Auricon camera that recorded the soundtrack directly on the film. As disarmingly funny as it is aesthetically challenging, CURSE stands tall as one of the last great 16mm underground features.

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