From the master of horror comes 'Cursed'. Wes Craven brought us 'The Hills Have Eyes' in 1977, 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' in 1984, the 'Scream' series in the 90s, and then in 2005 his directorial talent welcomed 'Cursed' to the world. Before watching this film I was greatly excited, I'm a ... Read review
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Production Year: 1998 - Horror - Director: Jamie Blanks - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Michael Rosenbaum, Joshua Jackson, Rebecca Gayheart, Robert Englund, Tara Reid
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Advantages: The opening is impressive, Christina Ricci provides a good performance. Disadvantages: The film is terrible, everything about it disappoints.
From the master of horror comes 'Cursed'. Wes Craven brought us 'The Hills Have Eyes' in 1977, 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' in 1984, the 'Scream' series in the 90s, and then in 2005 his directorial talent welcomed 'Cursed' to the world. Before watching this film I was greatly excited, I'm a huge fan of Wes Craven and love all his previous films I have mentioned here. He's a great director, an expert in the creation of tension and suspense. As 'Cursed' ... ...opening is powerful, it gripped me, and then the film unfolds.
Set in Los Angeles, Ellie and her brother Jimmy are driving home one evening when an animal unexpectedly smashes against the windscreen. They swerve and crash into another car, knocking it off the road in the process. It's a scary situation for them and they pull over, walking across to the car that they glanced to check that everybody is okay. The car has overturned and ... more
From the master of horror comes 'Cursed'. Wes Craven brought us 'The Hills Have Eyes' in 1977, 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' in 1984, the 'Scream' series in the 90s, and then in 2005 his directorial talent welcomed 'Cursed' to the world. Before watching this film I was greatly excited, I'm a huge fan of Wes Craven and love all his previous films I have mentioned here. He's a great director, an expert in the creation of tension and suspense. As 'Cursed' began I started to think he'd done it again. The opening is powerful, it gripped me, and then the film unfolds.
Set in Los Angeles, Ellie and her brother Jimmy are driving home one evening when an animal unexpectedly smashes against the windscreen. They swerve and crash into another car, knocking it off the road in the process. It's a scary situation for them and they pull over, walking across to the car that they glanced to check that everybody is okay. The car has overturned and is on its roof, a female passenger is alive and well but is still strapped in with her seatbelt and is understandably panicking. Jimmy helps her out and gets her seatbelt undone, but it is then that a werewolf takes hold of her body and begins to drag her away. Jimmy grabs onto her and is swiped by the werewolf creature in the process, his sister Ellie grabs on to him also and the three of them are dragged through bushes by this mysterious creature of the night. Admitting defeat and letting go, Jimmy and Ellie return home where Jimmy begins to research on the internet about werewolves. The next day they discover that the girl has been killed and so the film really begins to get going as the pair seek to discover what has happened to them and what shall become of their future.
What starts out as an interesting concept for a horror film soon becomes tiresome, the film begins brilliantly and I thought that 'Cursed' would turn out to be an excellent choice; sadly this was not to be so and it is in fact just one huge disappointment. In the 90s (and stretching into 2000 with the last in the trilogy), the 'Scream' films were greatly effective in parodying the horror genre and yet still remaining scary. I thought that 'Cursed' would be similarly as impressive and yet at every turn it just seems to disappoint. It runs like a bad B-Movie, it seems so tacky and low budget and yet this monstrosity of a film actually cost a cool $38 million. All I can say of this is what a waste of money! No way did they need a budget as large as this to come up with 'Cursed', in fact I really wish they hadn't come up with the film at all. It was an absolute waste of 90 minutes of my life; an hour and a half that I'll sadly never be able to get back.
Containing lines such as 'Fair fight? This is Hollywood!', this is obviously a film that is extremely self aware and yet this is simply not enough to explain why 'Cursed' is such an awful film. When films are self aware they tend to be vaguely humorous and yet 'Cursed' just isn't. A while back I watched the horror satire 'Jack Frost' and thought that was bad, but when I compare it to 'Cursed' I start to think that it wasn't so bad after all. This film seems tongue-in-cheek in part, and yet for the majority of the film you get the distinct impression that things are being taken a little too seriously and the film just doesn't work. Wes Craven always builds suspense in his films and this is of course true in 'Cursed' also, but the bad outweighs the good by far here and even Craven's best attempts at suspense can't help to save this film.
In terms of the casting it's not all bad news. I felt that Christina Ricci performed extremely well in her part as Ellie, I like her style of acting and thought it really worked in 'Cursed'. She was well selected and I enjoyed the role she played within this film, so at least that's one plus point to draw from 'Cursed'. Performing alongside Ricci as her brother however was Jesse Eisenberg as Jimmy. Quite frankly he was awful and at times his acting was so cardboard that I thought they may even have replaced him with a cut-out. Poor casting here, something that can be said of a lot of the people that were picked to perform within this film. It's probably not all their fault though, the script to 'Cursed' is so terrible that few I feel could come out of it looking anything short of awful. Luckily for him it didn't completely ruin his career though, Jesse Eisenberg did eventually manage to get more work even if it wasn't until two years later.
It started so promisingly, and yet as the film progressed things just seemed to go from bad to worse. The attempts at CGI that were made here quite frankly are laughable. It's hard to believe that it was 2005 that 'Cursed' was released, from their grasp of CGI it didn't seem anywhere close to that recent. Every time the 'werewolf' was shown I just couldn't help but laugh. It looked more like a rat than a werewolf. The use of CGI in 'Cursed' is about as impressive as Jesse Eisenberg's acting here and always it is greatly disappointing. It wasn't even bad in a humorous way really, it was funny in that it was so awful but I don't think they intentionally made it this tacky. Nothing was done right in 'Cursed' and even here they fail to get things right, just what were they thinking when they made this I wonder.
On no account would I ever recommend 'Cursed'. It wouldn't be a good film for any occasion, and unless you really want to waste an hour and a half of your life then I'd suggest that you give this film a wide berth. I just don't know why Wes Craven would direct this film, he's gifted us with such impressive horror films in the past and yet 'Cursed' is one of the worst horror films I've ever seen. In every genre there is always going to be the good, the bad, and the ugly; it just so happens that 'Cursed' falls into that final category there and disappoints on every level possible. With horror films I can often appreciate why people would perhaps like a film when I have not done, with 'Cursed' however I fail to see how anyone could ever possibly like such a bad film. It's just not good, its only redeeming features are its impressive opening and Christina Ricci's performance and neither of these factors are enough to save this film from being anything but an epic failure.
Director: Wes Craven Year of release: 2005 Genre: Horror Language: English Runtime: 90 mins BBFC Rating: 15
Advantages: Entertaining enough, funny at times Disadvantages: Silly, confusing, odd characters
Orphaned brother and sister, Jimmy and Ellie, are involved in a car accident. On trying to help the driver of the other car, they witness her being dragged away by some kind of animal. Even worse, they both receive scratches from said animal, which, Jimmy later finds out, is likely to be a werewolf. Both of them start going through some strange alterations; even worse, it appears that people involved with them are also affected. In order to get their ... ...the werewolf. But just who is the werewolf in his or her everyday guise? And even if they do find out who it is, will they be able to do anything about it? The fact that this film is directed by Wes Craven was an immediate draw - I've enjoyed most of his films on one level or another. I'm also not averse to the odd film about werewolves. Unfortunately, this 2005 film has a lot of plot flaws. It isn't a terrible film, but I'm certainly not surprised ...
sunmeilan 18.10.2009
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Advantages: Ok film to stay amused, not too scary Disadvantages: No great acting, fake werewolf!
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Cursed was released back in 2005, directed by Wes Craven, who also directed one of my favourite horror films, "Scream". Having loved scream, I thought I would give this a go.
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The story follows siblings Jimmy and Ellie who are accidently infected by a werewolf after they get scratched by one while trying to free a girl trapped in a car from an accident they had caused. They lost their parents in a car crash ... ...start! They start to notice changes in their bodies and behaviour, and after a bit of research, discover that not all myths are false.
They have to cut the blood line to be freed from a life as a werewolf, but they do not know who turned them, or who they are really in danger of. Throughout all this we also learn that Jimmy is trying to get the attentions of Brooke, a girl he likes from school and Ellie is trying to make her relationship with Jake, ...
chugglebunny 07.10.2008
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Advantages: It's short, a few nice effects Disadvantages: Disjointed, lacks direction, no scares, watered down cut
...wolves gives the finger.
Cursed is a complete waste of your time, energy and possibly money. Wes Craven deserved better but also should have known better. The film is every bit as suckey as you may have heard. I'm glad I saw it as a part of a free rental trial.
Sadly even the nice 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer can't make the film any better. Cursed looks nice on the small screen despite its bland production design.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 ... ...it to the movie.
Is Cursed worth any of your cash. In short I wouldn't spend a couple of quid on it, I doubt I'd spend a pound on it. You should be thankful that I have warned you about the dangers of encountering such as mess as this. ...
utero 15.12.2005
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Advantages: Good DVD bonus features Disadvantages: none really
...against time before they are cursed forever.
I had already guessed it would be the 'guess who the killer is' scenario, or in this case guess who's the head werewolf, due to the combination of the writer and director.
It starts off really frightening, with a lot of suspense and horror. Although I can't help but think it started to make a joke of itself towards the end which I felt was a shame. For example, although very funny, a werewolf gets taunted ... ...- Action/Adventure, Suspense/Horror and Thriller
Running time - 1hr 36mins
DVD EXTRAS BEHIND THE FANGS: THE MAKING OF CURSED
THE CURSED EFFECTS CREATURE EDITING
BECOMING A WEREWOLF
Overall I thought the movie is a worth while viewing, which is bound to make you jump. ...
dempsey_review 06.10.2005
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Advantages: Good little werewolf movie Disadvantages: bit cheesey in places
Cursed is quite a amusing werewolf story,its about a brother and sister who come across a car crash,two girls are trapped inside and they both work hard to get them out but the girls are grabbed buy something and dragged off and in the process of trying to save them both siblings are bitten.Its not long before they start displaying strange behavior,and need to find out what or who did this to them.
I quite enjoyed this movies but there again i like ... ...and Christina ricci, and is very funny through out,the werewolf effects are ok but dont top american werewolf in paris,i can recomend this to people who have liked the american werewolf films or ginger snaps to sum it up its not about to win alot of awards but its not to bad either, its probably one of the more up to date werewolf films around so might be worth giving it a try. ...
daxus100 21.08.2008
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Behind The Fangs The Making Of Cursed, The Cursed Effects Feature On The Special Effects, Creature Editing 101, Becoming A Werewolf A Creature Creation Feature
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2.40 Wide Screen
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DVD Description
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