Main Cast: William Baldwin, Angela Jones, Bruce Ramsay, Barry Corbin, Mel Gorham, Lois Chiles
Release Year: 1996
Country: US
Run Time: 88 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
In this dark comedy, a woman fascinated with crime has an unexpected brush with a famous murderer's handiwork. Gabriela (Angela Jones) is a Colombian immigrant living in Miami who has been fascinated with violent death since she saw a falling corpse pass by her window as a child. Today she works for a cleaning service that specializes in mopping up the blood, gore, and bone fragments left behind at crime scenes, and she is tickled to discover one day that she's cleaning up after an execution by her favorite at-large serial murderer, The Blue Blood Killer (William Baldwin), so named because his victims are all wealthy women. But Gabriela doesn't know that the killer is still in the building; he managed to lock himself in the wine cellar while trying to escape, and he is slowly trying to remove the bolts from its lock while Gabriela makes the place livable again. However, while cleaning, she discovers a piece of evidence that could confirm the identity of the killer, just as he's about to emerge from the cellar. Curdled is an expanded version of a short film that director Reb Braddock made in 1991; the short inspired one of the episodes in Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction, and Tarantino in turn helped produce this feature-length remake, as well as making a cameo appearance. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
The soundtrack to this Quentin Tarantino-produced crime tale includes a pair of songs from ex-Guns 'N' Roses guitarist Slash ("Obsession," co-written and produced by Nile Rodgers, and its instrumental countepart "Obsession Confession"), as well as music from Latin superstar Rosana. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Curdled is 1996black comedy about a Colombian immigrant who takes a crime scene cleanup job, and discovers evidence about a local serial killer dubbed the "Blue Blood Killer" for his targeting of socialites. The film is a re-make of a 1991 short film of the same name, which also was directed by Reb Braddock and starred Angela Jones. George Clooney was a photo cameo in the film as Seth Gecko.The gingerbread house (where Gabriela witness the Colombian murder as a child "Hansel and Grethel house" . Was baked by Chef Keith Blauschild,it was a rendition of the Miami house where the murder took place.
