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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Dimension
Salesrank: 31605
Released: June 21, 2005 |
| Our Price: $2.33 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Frightmaster Wes Craven brings you the terror of werewolves and a cast of today's hottest young stars in CURSED! Christina Ricci (MONSTER), Jesse Eisenberg (THE VILLAGE), Joshua Jackson (TV's DAWSON'S CREEK), Judy Greer (THE VILLAGE), and Milo Ventimiglia (TV's GILMORE GIRLS) find themselves caught up in an unimaginable horror! A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn that the only way to break the curse put upon them is to kill the one who started it all! Unstoppably frightening and undeniably fun, it's the latest hit from the team that thrilled you with SCREAM!
Description of Cursed:
When you consider its unfortunate production history, Cursed turned out surprisingly well as a werewolf thriller that horror buffs will appreciate. It's hardly the disaster critics made it out to be, but extensive rewriting, reshooting, recasting, and lengthy delays in production and release (including the elimination of R-rated gore to earn a PG-13 rating) clearly took their toll. The result is a fun but flawed monster-show that begins when a young talk-show producer (Christina Ricci) and her teenaged brother (Jesse Eisenberg) are bitten by a werewolf, setting the stage for a horror-in-Hollywood scenario that reunites director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson, creators of the Scream franchise. What could have been a classic horror comedy is instead a fairly solid, if unremarkable, exercise in Los Angeles lycanthropy, featuring werewolf makeup by Rick Baker (combined with CGI transformation effects, of course) and some of Williamson's snappy dialogue and trademark pop-culture references. The title of Cursed doubles as a description of this movie's ultimate fate, but in a market filled with straight-to-video horror fodder, it's anything but a lost cause. The supporting cast includes Shannon Elizabeth, Portia de Rossi and Joshua Jackson, so genre aficionados should definitely check it out. --Jeff Shannon
Cursed Reviews:
Cursed 
2008-08-06 - Reasonably entertaining movie about two teens being bitten by a werewolve and going through denial, then discovery, and then acceptance. Overall although no particular surprises, I found it engaging enough to stick with it till the end. If you enjoy vampire and werewolve movies you will probably find it worth at least a rental. It has a decent mix of horror with a little comedy that adds to the experience. The acting and directing is decent and the sets and camera work are good. If you enjoyed this catch "Scary Movie", "Arachnophobia" and "The Frighteners". - C. Luster
Nothing special.
2008-06-08 - A TV producer and her teenage brother are bitten by a werewolf after a car accident and have to kill the werewolf to break the curse and prevent themselves from becoming werewolves also. An okay horror flick from Wes Craven that features many familiar faces (Milo Ventimiglia, Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, Michael Rosenbaum and the R&B singer Mya) but is nonetheless nothing special. Wes Craven has made better.
Awful Awful Awful 
2008-05-14 - This movie is a complete piece of crap. Actually no, that's offensive to pieces of crap. This movie is the junk that gets stuck to pieces of crap.
I only watched this because it's Wes Craven, and I'm a fan of monster movies in general. Well, I'm not a fan of this one. In fact, it is the worst Wes Craven movie I've seen, and also the worst werewolf movie I've seen. Let's put it this way: Teen Wolf is scarier than this movie, and The Howling is funnier. That's all you really need in order to understand how dreadful Cursed is. It has zero laughs and zero scares. And for a supposed comedy/horror, that's how you spell disaster.
Cursed 
2008-01-21 - This was a really good show. A great movie for scary buffs.
I would reccommend this movie to buy.
Not that great.
2007-11-03 - I rarely go to the movie theatres to watch a movie. I'm a lover of horror flicks and that's the only type of movie I'll see at the movies. Unfortunately, more often than not, I regret spending the $8 I paid watching a horrible movie. As was the case when I wasted an hour and a half watching "Cursed".
So what's this movie about? A brother and a sister get in a car accident involving another car. When they try to save the driver in the other car, they witness what appears to be a wolf kill the driver and scratch the two of them in the process. Things turn even weirder when the siblings (yep, you guessed it) begin turning into werewolves.
Let's get the positives out of the way first. There were actually a couple humorous parts here and there surprisingly. Further, I wouldn't say that the movie is necessarily bad persay. The storyline moves at a steady place without any dull points.
And now for the bad. Jeez, where do I start? First, the cast. It's like they could only get lame, B list, famous-for-their-teen-movies actors for this film. Christina Ricci, Shannon Elizabeth, Mya? Those three just scream talent, don't they? Second, the not-so scary werewolf. Look, let's face it. No matter how hard you try, werewolves just aren't that scary. But it's clear that the wardrobe people didn't even try to make the werewolf in Cursed look scary nor real for that matter. If the supposed villain in a scary movie isn't scary, then what's the point? And lastly, the stupid plot. Clearly this movie was made for teens. The crushes, the dumb jokes, the unoriginality-together they all spell dumb movie.
Would I recommend this movie? Only if there's nothing else to watch. It's not horrible but definitely not good by any means.
