If you want a real horror movie, don’t watch Cursed. If you want a movie similar to Craven’s Scream trilogy, don’t watch Cursed. If you want an average by-the-numbers horror flick with not-too-bad performances, then you...
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If you want a real horror movie, don’t watch Cursed. If you want a movie similar to Craven’s Scream trilogy, don’t watch Cursed. If you want an average by-the-numbers horror flick with not-too-bad performances, then you should watch Cursed. Let’s start with the cast performances; the only thing to be said really is “not too bad�. That pretty much sums it up. Christina Ricci plays Ellie, the disbelieving sister. And regrettably, her performance isn’t too believable either. Throughout the film, it seems as if she’s not really putting much effort into it at all. And you can’t help but think that a teen genre horror flick is just somehow…beneath her. Jesse Eisenberg plays the brother, Jimmy, that seems all too fascinated with Werewolf lore. He delivers an average performance which screams “nothing special�. This is also true of Milo Ventimiglia and Joshua Jackson. The movie itself starts off as any other clichéd horror flick. Unfortunately for the viewer, it stays this way. There are moments when the viewer may think there could perhaps be some sort of exposition on the characters, but there’s not. The movie introduces a concept that is already unoriginal enough (who hasn’t tried to make a movie about werewolves?) and seems to have the potential to go somewhere but sloppy editing and an unfocused plot detract from this. And this results in a silly 97 minutes that leaves the viewer feeling hollow by the end.

As said before, if you want a by-the-numbers, clichéd, unoriginal horror flick, Cursed is definitely the way to go. If you’re looking for something more, look elsewhere.