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Plot:
On a moonlit night in Los Angeles, something darting out of the shadows causes siblings Ellie and Jimmy to suddenly swerve their car off the road and plunge into a ravine. They escape with their lives...( read more
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Cheesy special effects and preposperous plot result in a laughable werewolf chiller that's everything but scary & haunting. Camp value is reasonably high and the performances are dosed with the right amount of silliness (particularly Eisenberg's), but down the line, it's the kind of stuff that annoys more than entertains once it's past the 45-minute mark. The Craven-ish humour saves the damn thing from being total crap, but I have to say I'm not very proud of Wes for being responsable for this little rotten vegetable...
Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg were great as Brother and Sister. Jimmy, played by Eisenberg was my favourite character. When he goes from being this loner to an extremely cool teen is my favourite part. The only down side to the movie was the werewolf transformation scene which was terrible. Other than that I can't get enough of it, I've watched it so many times.
"I guess there's no such thing as safe sex with a werewolf. "
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I don't know what this is, It's sort of all over the place.
The werwolf design is good. I'll give them that. Until it's in full shots and then it looks like a bear. The story movies at a nice pace, but this "modern twist" in horror is going to far here. A jaded ex lover, taking out people to get to the lead werewolf. Please! And the flicking the middle finger bit . What a load of shit.
I'm not the biggest fan of modern Wes Craven granted. I don't really buy into all that glossy self refrencing stuff. I think it works in scream 1, maybe 2 as well, But it's almost too glossy in places, especially here. it feels a little like mid morning soaps with horror hat never really commits to being horrific.
There's still plnty to like here. Christina is always watchable, Jesse Eisenberg makes the most of what he'd given. and the rest of the TV stars that fill up the cast do there job. (seriously, Dawson's creek, Heroes, most of the Arrested Development supporting cast and Scott Baio as himself!)
Cursed is exactly what's wrong with modern horror. It's done with too much wink wink nudge nudge, too much hihlightng that it's a "modern" take and not enough straight forard human horror. It's totalyl watchable friday night trash and it has it's moments of excitment, but in general, this ain't a memorable werwolf flick at all.
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"No, I'm not gay, I'm cursed! "
I can understand why Josh Jackson and Shannon Elizabeth are in this clunker. Their careers are in the johnny flusher. But Christina Ricci is a respected actress with a great career. Must've gotten a nice payday because this movie was horrible.
Okay, first of all it's Wes Craven, second of all, I didn't take it too seriously which is obviously what is meant with this. Yeah, true overacting to the extreme at some points but never-the-less I kind of had fun watching it. It was weird and funny if you are the type of person to find jokes in these sort of things. I thought Jesse Eisenberg did a good job though.
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