Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Rainey Dawn This one has it's moments of being really good then slumps and drags for awhile, picks back up again, then drags, then picks back up. It's sorta a roller-coaster ride film for me.It is a comedy-horror and not everyone gets "comedy-horror". I found some of the comedy lame while some of it I laughed out loud. I think this one would have been much better as a pure horror myself because the werewolf is great! This is a film where the reviews are about equally split - some love it, some hated it. Like any film you should watch it to find out if it suits your taste.5/10

Steve Pulaski Wes Craven's Cursed is a film that would've been embraced had it been made in the mid-1990's, but because of its inception in the early-to-mid 2000's, it became, in itself, a cursed production. In the 1990's, horror films were a dime-a-dozen, and as there were incredible amounts of slasher films falling into theaters in the 1980's, the direct-to-video market became saturated with a plethora of low-budget features. Killer snowmen, killer gingerbread man, parodies, stalker films, and werewolf horror films lined video store shelves and studios were taking just about any asinine idea for a horror film and running with it. In the early aughts, however, this direct-to-video output slowed and horror became a lessened commodity. There were enough franchises to continue, crossover, and further develop and those are the franchises (Jason X, Freddy vs. Jason, Leprechaun, Child's Play) that got the theatrical/mainstream treatment.Almost any horror film released in the mid-to-late 2000's was forced to be cut from an R-rated film to a PG-13 rating, in an act of optimism by studios to snag the high school crowd on a Friday night. Such films like Prom Night and When a Stranger Calls, remakes of gritty slashers in the 1970's and 1980's, were watered down significantly to bear a PG-13 rating. Wes Craven, despite giving the horror industry one of its most successful franchises and characters the genre has ever seen, on top of a plethora of other films, found Cursed, one of his rarer, more contemporary productions, victim to reshoots, casting difficulties, a slew of production drama, and script-rewrites. What was going to be a more evident revitalization of Scream and teen horror turned into a bargain bin werewolf film that is narratively and visually crippled by a PG-13 rating.And, despite all the problems this film faced and the messiness of the end product, Cursed is perplexingly fun and passable as a piece of teen horror. We focus on brother and sister Ellie and Jimmy Myers (Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg), who experience a series of strange events after hitting a mysterious animal and crashing their vehicle into another car on a highway late at night. After the victim in the other vehicle gets mauled by the mysterious, wolf-like animal, Ellie and Jimmy find themselves experiencing a wide variety of bizarre behaviors, such as increased sense of smell, Pentagram-shaped sores on their hands, appetites for blood, allergies to silver, and others, leading them, particularly Jimmy, to believe they are turning into werewolves. With other colleagues of them exhibiting strange behaviors in addition, it could also be a sweeping epidemic that is slowly taking over the local teenage population.Cursed is less a straight-forward film and more a series of quirky vignettes in which increasingly strange things happen to certain characters. In one scene, Ellie has a complete meltdown in the bathroom of her workplace, resulting in red eyes, bloody hands resembling claws, and a distinct satisfaction at the sight, smell, and taste of blood. Jimmy, on the other hand, is bullied by the homophobic wrestling jock Bo (Milo Ventimiglia), who consistently pesters him to join the team so he can face off and ostensibly defeat Jimmy, further humiliating him. It isn't until Jimmy gains these unprecedented abilities that he puts Bo and his band of jocks to shame.Cursed often seems like Scream without the genre-parody aspect and the humor, and screenwriter Kevin Williamson, who worked on much of the Scream franchise with Craven, seems to be trying to give teens that same sense of ribald fun that he did with the original films. To Williamson's credit, the film works because it keeps the viewer interested at the transformation the two leads are constantly undergoing and the characters on display are developed a bit more than your run-of-the-mill film. The error here is that the film is handcuffed in asserting itself in terms of its scares and its display of horror because the violence is so muted. Even the dialog - which I'm told is modified in addition to some of the events of the film in the much-discussed "unrated cut" as opposed to the PG-13/theatrical cut I watched - seems modified greatly at the last minute, as if the characters are walking on eggshells and picking and choosing their words carefully. With that, it's also interesting to note how, despite Dimension Films and Miramax keeping this film as muted and mild as possible, they let the recurring gay subtext and theme in the film carry through much of the central storyarch.At the end of it all, as messy as the final product can be and as underwhelming as it occasionally feels, Cursed is one of the more enjoyable horror films of this time, squeezing itself next to When a Stranger Calls in the category of satisfying PG-13 horror films. Craven doesn't find his trademark genre-inventiveness, mainly because no matter how much he pretends, he's still spelunking through charted territory, but you get the sense that having Williamson hold the pen again makes this project feel like a spin off of Scream for him. The fun and thrills are present despite the occasional shortcomings, which is enough for me to shrug and simply wink at you, dear reader, when it comes to recommending this film.Starring: Christina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg, Joshua Jackson, Judy Greer, and Milo Ventimiglia. Directed by: Wes Craven.

SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain A group of teenagers fear they will change into werewolves after they are attacked. They believe they must find the original wolf and kill it in order to break the curse. Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven try and add a little bit of Scream charm to werewolf movies. Unfortunately rumours abound of studio interference. It certainly seems uneven, nervously mixing between comedy and horror. One particularly confusing moment sees a werewolf flip the bird. Eisenberg gives a performance he would later perfect for the much more complete Zombieland. The effects are jarring with neither the CGI nor costume being believable. The twist was OK as I convinced myself the ending would be as predictable as the rest. Some nice jumps, some nice jokes but a disappointing film with a lot of potential.

felixoteiza What a delightful little turkey. The typical flick that is so bad, it ends up being good; and one quite entertaining at that. For starters we got Christina Ricci, quite a treat to look at. The blessed girl can't be anything else but cute--she may be a great actress but who cares? --she only needs to stand in front of a camera to make for good fun. Also at her best when on the prowl in that cubicle-filled TV station, moving along in that feline demeanor of hers, sniffing anyone crossing her path, moving her undulating derrière in a lustful, quite inviting, fashion. Yum, yum. And then we have Shannon Elizabeth, the Barbara Steele of Teenage Camp, who we last see, or just her upper part, crawling on the ground, trying to get somewhere but going nowhere but to a hilari...I mean, horrifying death. Campy, campy.The plot is simple. A werewolf roams the wild near Hollywood and one night it attacks those folks involved in a 2--car accident in Mulholland Dr. killing and mutilating the driver of one--Elizabeth--and biting the occupants of the other, Lillian (Ricci) and her nerd brother Jimmy (Eisenberg). Fearing they may turn also in werewolves themselves, these last set then to find the culprit, so they may put an end to the curse that, they think, has so befallen them.The merit of Cursed is that everything in it is uniformly bad, at least mediocre or standard, and that it's also unpretentious. No artsy cinematography trying to cover for the lack of a decent plot, for bad acting or bad writing. No pretense in any of those fields, or others, so you may rest assured knowing that what you get at the beginning is the same you'll get up to the end. The camera work is no great shakes, which allows us to better focus on the bad dialogs, the cheesy SF, the lousy or non-existing characterizations, and having fun watching it all unfold into a cliché ending--note how Bow, Brooke, Zipper appear on cue for the appropriate Hollywood finale. While Ricci & Eisenberg do decent acting jobs, Jackson seems lost here; he has the same perplexed "I just woke up" expression all along, which makes him look like thinking: "I can't believe I'm in this flick, saying these things". Greer may be a good actress--that I can't say--but not for a moment she seems to believe in her character, which makes her greatly overact her scenes. As for Ventimiglia, just two words: bully & gay. Can you imagine that? If you can't, and if you are a GGs fan, just picture Jess rejecting Rory and going instead for Kirk. No wonder he seems to be here only waiting for the director to give him that lift back home and killing the time having some mischievous fun, playing a few Jess-like pranks on others, getting in the way of real actors and characters.But perhaps this is not, after all, a bad serious movie but a good spoof at the genre. What opens that possibility is that we are offered at times some likely caveats warning us that we shouldn't just take it too seriously. The best ex, and the funniest, is the episode of the finger saluting werewolf. See, Lillian & Jimmy have just survived a raging rampage of it, in some horror theme dancing club, and barely escaped an awful death when the beast has let them go at hearing the approaching police sirens. Moments later the arriving cops, unfazed at the news that the beast is actually a werewolf and that it may have yet changed its appearance to that of a particular woman--Lillian's love rival by coincidence--ask for a description. Lillian volunteers; "It's some kind of hyper PR woman, with bony ass, fat tights and baaad skin" At that very moment she--werewolf appears again in the balcony she had disappeared into, still in beastly attire, and indignantly screams at her: "Liar!" only to be riddled with bullets. Well, if you insist in taking the movie seriously after that you better stop asking Mensa for that membership application form they haven't sent you in a year.So, as there could be a fairly decent horror comedy lurking there under the guise of a poorly produced, shot, written and acted flick, I'll give it the benefit of the doubt and I'll say 6.0/10, most of all because it entertained me a lot. If you consider this high...come on, I gave 7.0 to Casablanca and it didn't nearly entertain me that much.