Cursed (2005)

A fateful accident in the woods leaves a brother and sister cursed by the beast that bit them as they return home with extraordinary new powers! CURSED is SCREAM writer Kevin Williamson's answer to THE WOLF MAN, taking another all-star cast of popular teen idols and mashing them together with countless genre references that many of them will be too young to understand. Williamson does not strike gold twice in this case, as the writing here is not nearly as clever or as pointed as his previous successes, dropping CURSED down closer to a SCREAM 2 or 3. You couldn't ask for a more unnatural pair in bringing together Christina Ricci and THE SOCIAL NETWORK's Jesse Eisenberg, while things are made all the more awkward with the insertion of Joshua Jackson as the love interest, who seems incredibly unenthusiastic about the role. Still, there is a certain camp quality about the picture that lends more entertainment than it truly deserves. Shannon Elizabeth is ripped in half, classic monster moments are played out in modern day LA, and there is plenty of Scott Baiosploitation. Some twenty-four years after reshaping special effects world with AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, Rick Baker returns to create a new wolf for the 2000's, but the new costume paired with the computerized transformation sequence comes off as being entirely unremarkable. Just how much of the film suffered from the complications in production, we may never know, but at least CURSED is good for a few cheap laughs.

Rating: 6/10.

Movies like CURSED:
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS, SCREAM, FEAR NO EVIL, TEEN WOLF, FULL MOON HIGH, FRIGHT NIGHT, THE HOWLING REBORN.