Elliott has directed too realistically, turning "Curse" into a sad melodrama, minus the magic. Maybe Shepard's odd take on rural goings-on had more of a shocking appeal to sophisticated urban audiences back in the seventies before TV series about Yellowstone and Fargo, filled with their own weirdness, effaced the darkness of Shepard's characters and plots. The post Curse of the Starving Class appeared first on Th…