It follows a young American coed who, while traveling on a train during a class trip in Yugoslavia, is targeted by a Satanic cult.

[2] A group of American students, including Beverly Putnic, travel to Yugoslavia and meet up with a local professor, Andromolek, to bear witness to a sacred pagan ritual that is only performed once every one hundred years.

The evil train thirsts for blood and soon the students begin dying horrible, gruesome deaths.

Beverly, however, manages to have sex with an 11th-century monk named Marius who is also riding the train, making her unfit as Satan's bride.

Since Marius is long since dead, he also vanishes, but not before returning to Beverly a book that her mother gave her when she boarded the plane in Los Angeles a few days prior.

After producing The Curse, Ovidio G. Assonitis and his company TriHoof Investments began production on two more films, with the working titles The Bite and The Train.

[3] The special effects of the gory deaths and the train leaving the rails were shot in Rome by a separate unit headed up by Angelo Mattei.

[7] TV Guide gave the film an unfavorable review, deeming the screenplay "illogical" describing it as "a clunky, Italian-produced horror opus [which] strains belief at every turn of its piecemeal plotting...