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Cursed 2 stars

Slick, by-the-book modern horror-comedy skips along merrily enough, hits all the marks, etc, but is let down part way through by the lamest-looking movie monster yet. Also, its general by-the-bookishness isn’t much of a turn on. I really wish Wes Craven would just pick up a 16mm camera and make something genuinely horrific and disturbing again. Christina Ricci seems to know what she’s doing, though, she manages to come out of the movie with just a little more integrity left than everyone else. That could just be my thing for her though :-p Get the unrated version, btw, it has more laughs, I mean, scares :-D


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2 Responses to “Cursed”

  1. Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » 2005 Movies Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 3:09 am

    [...] Cursed Wes Craven [...]

  2. Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » Red Eye Says:
    April 18th, 2007 at 3:10 am

    [...] This movie baffles me immediately on two levels – first, I really thought Wes Craven had lost it after the Scream trilogy, Cursed being just a huge disappointment, and he seems to have embraced the remake-sequelitis of his old classics a little too much for my liking (much as I might be looking forward to the Last House remake). So it’s great, if surprising, to see he still definitely has ‘it’ here, and even better to find that he’s still most definitely a people person when it comes to his horror (more on that later). [...]

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