Wednesday, Nov. 13, the PFS screens the astoundingly rare 1985 Hong Kong-made erotic thriller “Dead Curse.” Just how rare? Well, IMDB.com, the bible of cinema stats and information, does not even offer a plot synopsis or even any user reviews of the movie. It’s as though no one at all has seen it – or, if they have, they could not be bothered to let anyone else know!

Never shown publicly outside of Hong Kong, it was released briefly on VHS and Laserdisc, but has never appeared on DVD anywhere in the world. Similar in quality and tone to the “cut-and-paste” Z-grade movies of infamous Hong Kong auteur Godfrey Ho, it’s a baffling and unintentionally funny attempt at supernatural horror.

How baffling? Well, here is the only attempt at describing the plot of the film that can be found online, and which I can only hope is the unfortunate result of being poorly translated from Chinese:

“Fall head circulating in southeast Asia and the curse has a lot of people believe that it does, and had seen, but the film does not explore its authenticity, just to give you the stimulation of faculties, to achieve the effect of entertainment. Ma Wenbiao is Hong Kong sent to nanyang exchange service of detectives, lead to solve kill children’s offerings in god, and killed on the spot the witch, the witch, dying to kill tiger family curse, blood after tiger back to Hong Kong legs suddenly paralysis, medical repeatedly is invalid, ghosts since a series of things happen...”

Can you dig it? 8 p.m. showtime, with plenty of craft beer and organic wine on special during the film.