Cursed

[otisberg77]

I saw the movie "Cursed" at the weekend.
My god, what a bad bad bad bad bad movie, some of the worst CGI I have seen since The Brothers Grimm and bad acting.
Wes Craven has well and truly lost it.

[Andrew]

I have not seen this one, but he has been hit and miss for a long time now.  He either manages to make something that is disturbing in its departure from what most people feel is safe, or he churns out a big old hunk of slop.  I think he is running about, what, 50/50?

[SaintMort]

I was very very let down by this... I thought well combine Wes Craven, Christini Ricci and Werewolves should be great. I love Werewolf movies... alas... i could hardly pay attention to it

[Deathfeast]

it could have been good. it had really bad cgi and the story was awful but some kills were cool and the non cgi werewolf looked cool.

[Jim H]

Unrated version is a marginal improvement and has some OK gore.  I enjoyed it for its badness, and what have you.  I'm also a big werewolf fan, and they don't make many werewolf flicks, so I jump at them when I get the chance.

**SPOILERS**



I like how the original werewolf guy just turns out to be an a***ole for no real reason.  He's just a jerk.  From what they establish earlier in the movie, becoming a werewolf doesn't really have any personality change in and of itself, so yeah, the guy is just evil..  Just because, apparently. 



**END**

Like many recent werewolf movies, the film had me scratching my head as to why the people wouldn't want to remain werewolves.  Should have been called "blessing", if anything.

[Torgo]

Wes Craven actually filmed Cursed once and then Dimension/Miramax shut down production as they were going way over budget in addition to them not liking the extremely dark tone he was going for with the original version.

By the time that he got around to finishing the movie, a lot of the cast wasn't available so they ended up re-shooting something like 75% of it.

Plus, they gave it a much more cheeky tone as well instead of it being dark.

All in all, though, it was pretty awful. Not Craven's finest hour indeed.

[Just Plain Horse]

Okay, first off, I generally hate wes craven movies- the last one he did that I liked was Serpent and the Rainbow. Second, I'm defintily inclined to agree that most of his work is a downhill slide from the title to the ending.

Despite that, I wasn't totally disgusted with Cursed, and I was expecting it to be a total letdown. It WAS pretty damn cheesy (the humor was just plain lame, and what's with tossing all the male celebrities? I'm starting to think if Craig Kilborn is anywhere in a movie, I should avoid it like the plague), but I wouldn't say it was bad or unwatchable (especially to this crowd). I did think the scene where the woman in the cat outfit (a poke at Halli Berry perhaps?) got stalked and killed was pretty good... and I think the premise was initally interesting, but yeah Hollywood stepped in and mucked it all up (by "mucked" I mean "CGI'ed") with bad effects and all too convienient plot twists.

[SaintMort]

I gotta defend wes... here... I've yet to see serpent and the rainbow... but "Wes Craven's New Nightmare" and "Scream" were both made after that movie and credit where credits do... they were both very unique and interesting... WCNN saved a pretty much dead series with the best entry since Nightmare 4... and Scream (though some hate the sequals... i thought there were mediocre) is probably one of the greatest works in horror/comedy history... the script is amazing and it was the first good slasher film since like the mid-80s

[Torgo]

A lot of people seem to slam John Carpenter a whole lot more than Wes Craven, but I think that Wes is a far more inconsistent director as a whole.

Carpenter's output from 1976 to around 1985 was flawless.

Craven has never entered into what I would call a flawless period.  He'll do a great movie or 2 and then follow that up with a couple of cinematic abominations.

[Just Plain Horse]

I have to agree with both Torgo and Mort (you have sainthood?), Carpenter was really good for awhile, and yeah, New Nightmare was definitly a cut above the bulk of the series. Still...