It doesn’t seem like an accident that Showtime’s ghoulishly humorous new series “The Curse” is also produced by A24, because the experience of watching it is not unlike their unsettling, insidious horror output.
The series, which is meant to rattle and roil, follows a pair of married HGTV hosts (Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder) who create a nonfiction show within their own pre-existing nonfiction show. To do so, they infiltrate a blue-collar, strip-mall town in New Mexico, posing as do-gooder home designers—but as the series unfolds, they begin to seem more like do-badders.
Editor Adam Locke-Norton insisted that the creepiness did not extend to the making of “The Curse,” despite its origin from master provocateurs Benny Safdie (who plays the couple’s impish producer) and Fielder.
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