Curse of the Forty-Niner (also known as Miner's Massacre) is a 2002 American slasher film directed by John Carl Buechler and starring Karen Black.

[1] A group of explorers go hiking in the forests of northern California.

They stumble upon an old mine and take a large amount of gold that they find.

They do not know that the gold belonged to a miner named Jeremiah Stone (Vernon Wells), who died in the mine.

He awakens from the dead and begins killing anyone who gets in the way of his gold.