Cursed

2005 "Beware the full moon"
5| 1h39m| PG-13| en
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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.

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Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.
FlashCallahan Ellie has been taking care of her younger brother Jimmy since their parents death. One night after picking him up from a party they are involved in a car accident on Mullholland Drive. While trying to rescue a woman from the other car a creature attacks and kills her, also injuring both Ellie and Jimmy. After some research Jimmy realises the creature could only have been a werewolf.....The makers thoughts that lightning could be struck twice, putting the old irony twist on the creature feature, just like they successfully did with the Scream franchise, the first two anyway.But then the good old Weinsteins got involved and chopped the cinema version to shreds, causing the narrative to make no sense and ruin the whole flow of the film, and making main characters unlikeable.I saw the original cut in the cinema, and I was literally the only person at the screening.The DVD version does improve the film a little, but the film still is poor, when you consider the talent behind the camera. The film doesn't really pick up until the wrestling scene, and the few swipes at media and journalists feel lazy, as do the celebrity cameos.Its a shame really, because there are some good ideas in this movie, but it ultimately fails.
thesar-2 Ouch.Though it doesn't prove to be Wes Craven's worst film (14 years strong, 'The People under the Stairs' still holds that title), it's pretty damn close. I would have stuck with the original working title, "Cursed: Teen Wolf Three."Granted, they did show the beast (something they barely did in the highly superior 'Ginger Snaps') however the 'Van Helsing's wolf-man/teddy bear was far more unique and frightening.Since I apparently can't count past 59, I stopped counting the flaws about half-way through. But then couldn't help myself in the latter part, including the chick that apparently turned into the wolf at the party, shredding her clothes, and then turned back, got new clothes, and then shred those too.Also, when she died (which according to this movie's legend, she couldn't have been killed that way -- but let's skip over that obvious flaw) she was facing upward as the dead werewolf, but in fetal position when they found her nude human form.Don't even get me started on the werewolf giving them the birdie. Ouch. Or the entire motivation for the killer werewolf just bent on getting Joshua Jackson all to herself. On the flip-side.. I really can't blame her; I probably would have done something similar. He was a perk for the movie, but only for eye-candy. At first, of course I was offended by the homophobic lines these assholes were saying, but after the 2nd or 3rd scene, I was waiting for the wrestling captain to come out.Watching this movie, made me want to recommend Ginger Snaps (1, 2 or 3), Wolf, or my personal favorite The Howling, to all my friends.And if they ask me about Cursed, I'll recommend Ginger Snaps (1, 2 or 3), Wolf, or my personal favorite The Howling.
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.