| Cursed | | Cast : | Jesse Eisenberg, Christina Ricci | | Director : | Wes Craven | | Studio : | Buena Vista Home Vid | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | February 25, 2005 | | DVD Released Date : | June 21, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | Unrated | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | Should a horror movie put you to sleep? | Content
 | Perhaps it's the curse of the werewolf. Maybe that's why so many actors and actresses that are normally great deliver such poor performances in this over acted, under directed, piece of formula writing. Though I am a fan of `bad' b horror movies, even my love of them couldn't help me tolerate this film.
I thought about how to write this review without giving any spoilers, well, watch five minutes of the film, then think about the next formula, pat, unexciting thing that could happen, and boom, you're there, it just happened. There are no twists and turns in the plot, it's calm as a still pond and smooth as glass, so it had the general effect of luring you to sleep.
Even the special effects are nothing new or exciting. Matter as fact, they're pretty amature, looking like they were created in Maya by a couple of college students that are getting poor grades in art class.
If you're thinking about watching this, or worse yet, buying it. Don't. Howling is a werewolf movie classic and well worth your time. But if you invest yourself in Cursed, you'll just come out feeling cheated.
Not recommended. (this review pertains to the Un-rated DVD version)
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| Rating | | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | Alright Movie | Content
| This movie is good, but some stuff ruins the legend of the werewolves that we all grown up with. Some of the themes are stupid and others could better. And some of the acting is horrible. But on a rainy day this is a good movie to watch and make fun of it. That what it does makes fun of the werewolf legend and past films. Wes Craven's direction is good but this is my least favorite of his movies. So watch if you want. I enjoyed it but I think it could be better. Alot better. Can't wait for Red Eye though. It looks like classic Craven and will be fun. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | A BOGUS LET DOWN ! | Content
| The beginning was great & then it took such a nose-dive that i got whip-lash from the impact! What a let down! Wes Craven can do so much better then this crap that he's been putting out for the last 8 years. It looks like he's chosen money over art! |
| Rating | | | Date | August 04, 2005 | | Summary | Flawed but fun...... | Content
| "Cursed" is by no means is a greatly written werewolf movie. The film itself is definitely flawed throughout yet it manages to squeak by as pretty fun, if not somewhat silly. The cast itself is quite an ensemble, which is probably the best part of "Cursed" as a whole.
The story centers around two siblings, Ellie & Jimmy (Christina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg) who are inexplicably bitten /scratched by a werewolf after a car accident on the infamous Mullholland Dr. While Jimmy realizes early on that his senses are heightened and that his body is changing, Ellie is a little less quick to believe that she is becoming "Cursed" herself. Jimmy tries to tell her, but the whole thing sounds too crazy to her; and after all, neither of them really got a good look at the whatever is was that attacked them the night of the accident.
Jesse begins to also realize that something is still out there, and that the only way that he can avoid the transformation taking place with himself is to kill the head wolf. The movie turns into a "who is it" early on, and is fairly predictable. Still, Cursed has enough players to keep you guessing throughout its entirety. With plenty of foolish and funny scenes, Cursed manages to entertain.
It's not Shakespeare, and it's really not that scary of a movie either.
It is quite amusing as a comedy though, and definitely worth a viewing if you need a good laugh. It never manages to take itself too seriously, and this review recommends doing the same when watching it. ;-) |
| Rating | | | Date | August 04, 2005 | | Summary | Not what it could have been | Content
| I agree this movie pretty much sucked but Craven fans should know the facts before they start raving about how low he went on this film. Wes owed Dimension one more movie and that ended up being Cursed. Now what we have here isn't even that film he started to make. Craven originally filmed most of this movie in an almost entirely different version that Dimension decided they didn't like because it was a HORROR movie and wasn't hip and funny enough. That's when Kevin Williamson rewrote the script to be this piece of poo that we all watched. So Wes had to re-shoot the movie to suit the new script. Basically he hates it, and his new movie coming out, Red Eye, is for I believe Dreamworks pictures not Dimension.
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