The Verdict: In an attempt to do for werewolf movies what they did for slashers (horror with a tongue-in-cheek comedic touch) Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson made this...

It’s no surprise that this thing fails – They had major script problems and had to re-shoot half of the film. Since actors that were available the first time they shot it ended up having other commitments they had to re-cast and some characters were cut out of the story all together. So what is left is a film just littered with bad horror clichés and embarrassingly bad attempts at comedy. What is worse than the attempts at comedy is the times when scenes unintentionally become comedic. One such example is the day after being bitten, Ellie (Christina Ricci) is in her office talking to a co-worker when suddenly she remarks “What smells so good?” Moments later she has ditched her co-worker mid conversation and is on a long office wide quest to find the smell, (as she now has super werewolf smell) in the process she sniffs a passing worker – yes she actually walks past and blatantly points her nose towards him and sniffs, and as you would expect from such a visible action – he notices. I’m keeping this section a wee bit shorter as I’m saving the absolute best scene (and trust me – it’s good!) for the golden craptastic moment.

Cursed would be a stupid forgettable horror film were it not for some bad failures standing in for scenes – most notably the moment described below. This thing tries to be cool and funny like Scream but ends up just embarrassing itself.

(3 and a 1/2 Craptastic Stars)


Golden Craptastic Moment: OK, are you ready for it? A description of the absolute funniest and stupidest scene of the film follows. So our heroes (...Ellie and Jimmy...not really heroes I suppose...more like main idiots) have been chased around by the bad cgi and man in a suit mixture of a werewolf. The police have arrived and suddenly the werewolf has disappeared (Oh No!) – How can they ever lure this thing back? Well upon being asked for a description of the monster, Ellie thinks of the perfect plan (wait for it; you may need to remember this if ever faced with a similar situation). “She’s got a bony ass, and fat thighs, and bad skin” Ellie says of the werewolf. No sooner has she said this, but the werewolf comes out in a rage shouting “Liar” (who knew a werewolf could talk when transformed?) and then to top this off - it pulls the fingers!