2008 Woodie Awards
"Curse" doesn't impress
Dominique Dumadaug
Issue date: 3/4/05 Section: No Limits
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Thrillmaster Wes Craven must be running out of ideas for scary movies and sadly, he must have forgotten how to write a good one. "Cursed" has got to be one of the worst "horror" films of all time. It is a complete waste of 95 minutes. It is hard to believe this is the same man that created the still frightful "Nightmare On Elm Street" movies.
"Cursed" was a horrible combination of bad script, bad casting, even worse acting, bad cinematography, and a weak subplot. Even more disturbing was the use of old clichés and over-the-top stereotypes.
Of course, in every teen horror flick nowadays, there's the depressed heroine dealing with a parent's death, her stereotypical and severely over-emphasized pushover nerdy younger brother and the brother's popular dream girl, her womanizing bad-boy boyfriend or her over-protective jock boyfriend who happens to be secretly gay, and finally, a crazy stalker that's trying to kill the heroine because she is with her ex-boyfriend whom she wants back.
The movie was so dreadful it was predictable. Within the first few scenes of the movie, one can figure out what will happen and to whom it will happen. The characters are so generic that no one will be able to remember their names after watching the movie. The "actors" in the movie aren't even worth mentioning due to their lack of credibility and believability in the film.
All this movie does is take concepts from "The Lost Boys" and "American Werewolf In Paris" and incorporate them into a teen scary-movie formula. To think, with all of the advances in special effects, the werewolf would be scary-looking; it was obvious it was a man in a cheap-looking costume.
There were a few cheap scares at the beginning but besides that, the movie wasn't scary at all. Don't waste your time and money on this sorry attempt of a scary movie.
"Cursed" was a horrible combination of bad script, bad casting, even worse acting, bad cinematography, and a weak subplot. Even more disturbing was the use of old clichés and over-the-top stereotypes.
Of course, in every teen horror flick nowadays, there's the depressed heroine dealing with a parent's death, her stereotypical and severely over-emphasized pushover nerdy younger brother and the brother's popular dream girl, her womanizing bad-boy boyfriend or her over-protective jock boyfriend who happens to be secretly gay, and finally, a crazy stalker that's trying to kill the heroine because she is with her ex-boyfriend whom she wants back.
The movie was so dreadful it was predictable. Within the first few scenes of the movie, one can figure out what will happen and to whom it will happen. The characters are so generic that no one will be able to remember their names after watching the movie. The "actors" in the movie aren't even worth mentioning due to their lack of credibility and believability in the film.
All this movie does is take concepts from "The Lost Boys" and "American Werewolf In Paris" and incorporate them into a teen scary-movie formula. To think, with all of the advances in special effects, the werewolf would be scary-looking; it was obvious it was a man in a cheap-looking costume.
There were a few cheap scares at the beginning but besides that, the movie wasn't scary at all. Don't waste your time and money on this sorry attempt of a scary movie.