Cursed

Plot synopsis:
Two high school students arrive at the Mitusya convenience store. One of the students, Yuko, proclaims she cannot enter the shop. However, she backs away too far and is killed by a truck.
Some time later, Ryouko Kagami, a representative of the Cosmo Mart chain, seeks to purchase the store on behalf of her boss, Tejima. She explains to the shop owners, Mr. and Mrs. Kitura, that Tejima could not be present because of an accident in which his feet were amputated, to which the Kituras react with amusement. As Ryouko begins doing an inventory of the store, she befriends a part-time employee named Nao Niigaki. A customer in a hooded coat comes in and starts reading a magazine. Nao tries to get a good look at his face, but can only see darkness.
Later, a man comes in and makes a purchase for 666 yen. While walking home, the man encounters a white ball which has rolled from a dark alley. He picks it up and walks into the alley where a voice asks him to return the ball. He walks into the darkness, disappears, and the ball is bounced outside again.
While Nao sorts the drinks in the freezer, she sees a pair of eyes staring back at her. Meanwhile, Ryouko finds a product that expired three years previously. She questions the Kituras, who blankly continue staring in a CCTV camera. Two crows crash into the window, killing themselves. Nao and Ryouko go to outside to investigate, where the Kituras are somehow already present and hosing away the crow remains, laughing madly. That night, a man and woman make purchases for 699 yen and 999 yen respectively. On the way home, the woman is stalked by a man with a sledgehammer, who eventually appears inside her apartment and attacks her.
The next day, Ryouko receives a call from Tejima, who tells her "everyone has feet" before the signal cuts to static. After dark, the night clerk, Komori, serves the hooded man. The till registers 44.44444 yen, and Komori looks up to find only blackness in the hood. The man then forces Komori's head inside the hood. Komori comes out in shock and panic. Ryouko arrives and sees that one of Komori's eyes has monstrously bulged out of his sockets. Ryouko takes over Komori's shift and charges a woman 666 yen. A man is initially charged 907 yen until he is hypnotized by steamed buns; he buys one and the price changes to 999.
That night, the woman cooks food for her boyfriend when a blackout occurs. She opens her fridge to find a long corridor from which a pale girl emerges. The girl approaches the woman and tricks her into fatally stabbing her boyfriend, before the woman is suffocated by a bag over her head. Meanwhile, the man visits a bathhouse. Witnessing strange phenomena in the bath, he attempts to leave when he slips on mysterious hair and is knocked unconscious. When he wakes up, the man is attacked and killed by the elderly clerk of the bathhouse. He grabs the man's steamed bun and eats it while watching the television.
That same night, Nao is standing at a railroad crossing when the hooded man appears and tries to pull her toward the passing train. She resists until the train passes and the hooded man disappears. The following day, Nao finds a homeless woman who tells her to come with her to learn more about the store. Nao and the woman are joined by Ryouko at the park. The woman reveals that the store's owner mistreated his contractor when it was being built. The contractor, in anger, broke apart the tombstones of people without families and used the fragments to build the store's foundation, resulting in its haunting. Ryouko tells Nao to stop working there.
Nao comes to the store and saves Komori from a ghost in the bathroom. Komori, regaining his sanity, runs out of the store where, in the sun, he baptizes himself in the river. He throws away his jacket, regains his composure, and leaves with Nao. Ryouko, walking toward the store to work, finds a wheelchair rolling down the hill. Her boss Temija tells her every ghost does not have feet and he is happy. Ryouko thanks him and walks away. The movie goes back to the beginning, now shot from Yuko's point of view, where she sees the tortured souls inside the store.

Tags: comedy, suspenseful, murder, cult, violence, absurd, psychedelic, satire, revenge

Review:
Craven shows that he hasn't lost his love of postmodernist reference and theatrical "wall breaking", the performances are good, occasionally the film is suspenseful (the car crash near the beginning is especially well done), and Williamson's story overall is intriguing in that Cursed is really a somewhat traditional thriller in which characters just happen to be werewolves.Craven opens the film at a carnival, which is obviously theatrical, and quickly presents a psychic "performer" who happens to be a "real psychic", taking her job seriously rather than just providing entertainment.
As a humorous jab at filmic self-reference and comments about his use of the same in previous films, especially Scream (1996), a pivotal scene near Cursed's false climax is shot in a very artificial-looking hall of mirrors (and this is also literally reminiscent of a number of other horror films, including The Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), Dr. Giggles (1992) and The Haunting (1999)).The fact that Williamson has really constructed a thriller, and it just appears to be a werewolf film, is a kind of late-film twist that provides another level of "wall breaking".
Williamson also spends time exploring the dramatic consequences of Ellie and Jimmy's newfound power.However, given the final result, at least with the cut I watched, these more intellectual touches from Craven and Williamson may have ended up being too hip for the film, which Dimension apparently wanted to sell as a more by-the-numbers horror flick geared to pull in younger teens (and a surprising amount of pre-teens in the showing I attended).
Pass this off as credit to Craven as a director and Williamson as a writer that they were still able to pull off something of a fun movie.A pair of siblings are bitten by a werewolf following a car crash that leaves one woman dead.
And while there is some good gore being tossed around, the creature itself never looks all that believable (neither in CG or costume incarnations).In the end this is not the ultimate failure fan-boys have tried to pass it off as; time will be kind to Craven's unfortunate child and horror fans should too.7/10 (Note: review based on R-rated version of film).
While Cursed was no Scream, it was a pretty good little werewolf movie, despite what Wes, himself, thinks of it.
I think it would have been better if it was left uncut, but I still thought pretty highly of it, even if most do not agree.Cursed is about a brother and sister named Ellie and Jimmy (Christina Ricci & Jesse Eisenberg) who get into a car accident and end up getting bit by something while helping the other motorist.
After five years without directing a film, I bought this DVD expecting a good return of Wes Craven to the genre horror teen movie.
If you want to see a great werewolf movie, there are many excellent options, but you can forget "Cursed", which is only recommended for killing time.
I would blame the board of Dimension who asked Williamson to rewrite the script and end up having what could have been a good cast ensemble reduced to one or two noticeable actors - Christina Ricci, who looked gorgeous and provided eye-candy for many guys, and Shannon Elisabeth, who i wished had had the part of Judy Greer but Judy's performance wasn't terrible.
I am not going to stick up for that part 'cause it could've been better but don't moan about it.I think the script was good and it had a few fantastic one liners- the werewolf screaming LIAR and giving the finger...hey, anything can happen, its Hollywood.
I am very happy that Craven didn't take the movie seriously and started to turn it into a parody from early on because it was enjoyable otherwise it would have been nothing but a few unseen deaths and a very dull plot but the humour and in-jokes made it better.He did try to work with what he had and i guess he gave up because of Dimension ( I don't have a problem with Dimension films, honest!)All in all, if you are looking for something to do and are out of ideas, go and see this movie but do not take it seriously at all and you should have an enjoyable night without the bad after-effects of scary films with nightmares and anxiety..
From creators ¨Scream¨,bring us this ¨Cursed¨,a creepy terror movie that have you breathless.After an appointment with her boyfriend(Joshua Jackson), a publicist(Christina Ricci) along with his brother,a geeky high school student named Jimmy(Jesse Eisenberg) are going at home.But they have an accident against the occupant(Shannon Elizabeth) another car in Mulholland road,Hollywood,Los Angeles.An strange animal spontaneously bites to the driver and the brothers.
Later they are developing an extraordinary force and aware themselves which there happened more than an accident and they have a terrible curse who cannot to control.Then they undergo a dental and hirsute transformation at the night and going on a murderous rampage every time the moon is full.They increased strength,heightened senses and unnatural sexual allure and they sprout hair and pointy ears,their hands have a five-pointed star like a pentagram,but it's the mark of the beast and pretty freaks occur them.They've been infected,there're cursed ,they've got to sever the line of the beast.They bear the marking of the beast,the only way to break the curse is to find the werewolf which attack them.The problem is how to kill the werewolf , no with silver but actually have to separate the head from the heart ,silver just hurts a lot.
The story contains various versions Nc 13 parents guide and Nc 17 with more or less gore.The famous screenwriter Kevin Williamson provided a well-knit plot with mystery and horror,giving full rein to Wes Craven natural talent for the terror genre.The film is dedicated to the producer movie Dan Arredondo.It's a standard terror and sometimes graphically gory and turns out to be an average attempt to cash in the werewolf sub-genre..
If nothing else, you've gotta at least love the irony in the fact that Cursed is exactly the kind of teen horror movie that Scream poked fun at.It's pretty sad that Corey Feldman couldn't even keep his name attached to this film (his scenes were cut), but it's even sadder that this movie would've actually been better by having Feldman in it.
If someone tells you, "Man, you should've kept Feldman's scenes in there, it would've helped," then you need to do some serious soul searching before attempting another movie.Cursed tries to take a Scream approach and not take itself too seriously, but man, that doesn't mean it had to be a complete joke.
He proves (again) that he's the worst thing that could happen to the horror-industry, while director Wes Craven enlarges his list of embarrassingly bad movies (that actually started right after his 1977 film "The Hills have Eyes").
Movies like "An American werewolf in London" and "the Howling" are almost 25 years older but the special effects team of "Cursed" surely could have learned something from them on how making a transformation creepy instead of laughable.
With CURSED, Wes Craven has made an exciting if not terribly scary werewolf movie, and pays plenty of tribute to such past horror flicks as THE WOLFMAN, A WEREWOLF IN London, THE HOWLING, SILVER BULLET, TEEN WOLF and even FRIGHT NIGHT.
Craven's first horror movie since the Scream films is this fun little werewolf flick that's not as bad as some critics would have you think.During a car wreck, brother and sister are bitten by a monstrous wolf and sure enough there's a full moon on the rise!While granted Cursed doesn't live up to some of the other films of Wes Craven (Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, the recent Red Eye) it's an enjoyable horror romp.
There's also a terrific rock soundtrack.The cast is pretty good, but it's really the lesser known stars Jesse Eisenberg and Judy Greer who turn in the best performances.It's not American Werewolf in London (1981), but Cursed is a good watch and one of the better werewolf movies in quite some time.*** out of ****.
Wes craven and Kevin Williamson come together in this scene to recreate the classic werewolf film with a touch of sarcasm and a heap of terror!!
Joshua Jackson really shows his range of acting talent in this film, and the guy who plays Christina Ricci's little brother is HILARIOUS....The movie was wayyyy better than I expected....wes craven is a genius...And the atmosphere was right on...the more recent rash of horror films have been severely lacking in the right tones and atmosphere, and wes craven, the master, has succeeded beautifully...if you love horror films, this is one to watch..
Granted my expectations were pretty low before stepped into the theater, but I didn't expect this movie to be THIS bad.First off, I didn't know which direction Wes Craven wanted to go.
If you like werewolves see American Werewolf In London.....it's better.This movie is a terrific example of what is wrong with horror movies these days.Directors stick a bunch of crappy young actors together,show some gore, and expect us to fall for their awful screenplays.
West Craven and Kevin Williamson have out done them self's but hey Kevin is a Genius the man who Created Dawson's Creek what else would he have given us but a great Movie well done Kevin!!!!!!!I have been reading you peeps post and I was well what can I say sadden by them this was a great movie yes I think Scott Baio was a mistake but the rest of the cast was great and to the guy who said that Joshua Jackson should stop acting is sick and wrong the man can act what dose your girl friend think he is hott and you are Jealous awww poor baby you wont have as many woman wanting you the way they want him my heart goes out to you NOT!!!!!!!!
The first half of the movie was your typical horror film with the car crash and werewolf scenes.
The film is not scary so that may be a disappointment for some die-hard horror and Wes Craven fans but it has enough going on and enough tricks up it's sleeve to entertain for the 100 minute running time and I was enjoying every one of those minutes..
The cast in this movie is really cool--Mya's not as bad as you would think, Joshua Jackson is really good, Christina Ricci surprises, and Jesse Eisenberg is really funny.
Consider that the movie was still really good, funny, scary, intense, and interesting.It might not be Craven's (or Williamson's) best work, but it is still better than most out there.
Well,this is when I hope a 0 would be a possible score.OK,must people said that this movie was a funny movie,a parody of others werewolves movies,well,the commercials on T.V. said other thing.This was supposed to be a scary movie,if this was going to be a funny movie,they should have told this to the audience first,even the DVD cover tells you that the movie is suppose to scare you.This is one of those many cases where Hollywood wants to entangle people in its spiderweb,once you are in the theater your only chance is to walk out,but you already gave them the money.But with this movie you don't walk away,you RUN AWAY!.I feel VERY bad for those who had to pay to see this movie,UGH it's so painful.Why I did NOT like this movie?,if this movie was supposed to scare me...well..I could watch this movie with all the lights off,at a cemetery,a haunted house,wherever it wont scare me,I don't think this would scare anyone.The werewolves look like cats,and the environment is not suitable for a movie that's supposed to be scary.The usual environments for this kind of movies are dark and Gothic,but this is far from dark and far from Gothic,this looks like a frustrated "scary" movie from the 90's.The characters are just AWFUL,they gay guy,the girl's brother (I don't remember the names because I was completely BORED),everyone in this movie never took seriously their current situations,and if they did not take it seriously,why would the audience take this movie seriously?.The werewolf concept is so exploded that it takes more than stupid CGI monsters to make a really scary movie out of this.Also,I don't remember any promos of this movie telling to the audience that this was going to be a movie about werewolves,I thought this was a movie about some satanic ritual,which would have been more scary.If this movie was supposed to be funny it was n't either.The girl's brother is n't funny,his character is pathetic,he acts like he has some kind of mental disorder.This movie does not have the background to be funny,also people were n't prepared to laugh,they were prepared to scream,but they did n't laugh and they did not scream either.The gay guy thing was n't funny either it's also a joke that has been exploded in many movies,just like the concept.The only thing that made me laugh was when the woman werewolf showed hers little sign with hers finger,that was funny,but obviously not funny enough to save this movie from being HORRIBLE.So,why would you watch this movie for?,it does n't make you laugh,it does n't make you scream,it just gives you a screen to look at for a couple of hours,no emotions involved,no deep story,just some exploded clichés..
Wes Craven, despite giving the horror industry one of its most successful franchises and characters the genre has ever seen, on top of a plethora of other films, found Cursed, one of his rarer, more contemporary productions, victim to reshoots, casting difficulties, a slew of production drama, and script-rewrites.
It isn't until Jimmy gains these unprecedented abilities that he puts Bo and his band of jocks to shame.Cursed often seems like Scream without the genre-parody aspect and the humor, and screenwriter Kevin Williamson, who worked on much of the Scream franchise with Craven, seems to be trying to give teens that same sense of ribald fun that he did with the original films.
It won't likely become one of your favorite werewolf movies but there's a good chance you'll walk away thinking this is better than its reputation suggests..
Christina Ricci and Joshua Jackson are passable as the leads, but Jesse Eisenberg as Ricci's brother steals the movie with an often amusing and interesting character who's coming to terms with his own "curse" much differently (and much more fun) than his sister.
We all know Wes Craven can do horror, this is his answer to the campy B movies that have come out, and he does excellent!If you're looking for some edge of your seat thriller, this isn't for you.
Cursed isn't any great shakes as a horror film, and I would never put it anywhere near Wes Craven's top tier work (i.e. Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, Hills Have Eyes).
When I first saw ads for it, I couldn't believe that the creative team behind 'Scream' (director Wes Craven and writer Kevin Williamson) were reuniting for another horror movie!
The movie had so much potential and with a great and well respected director like Wes Craven, but it fails with its idiotic story and special effects..
I've just watched this movie and found it entertaining,if your looking to be scared witless forget it,this is a fun movie with some interesting twists but its not gonna give you nightmares.The wolf doesn't really look that convincing and the acting can be a bit wooden at times but its still an OK movie and id recommend it.Deserves a higher vote but i guess some people just expected more scares and gore from a Wes Craven flick and this just doesn't do that.
Cursed seemed to try and challenge the best campy/horror werewolf film ever made, "An American Werewolf In London" but the older film still wins over 20 years later,and reigns supreme.The movie seemed more like a WB made TV movie then a big screen film, complete with WB stars,very predictable,not very scary, a few laughs,poor special effects,the movie didn't quite seemed to know where it wanted to go, all in all, rent it and see it with guests at a get together and you will have fun pointing out all the flaws, and maybe all might groan together at certain points which should bring some fun.I think horror movies can really come off with comedy added in the mix, like "An American Werewolf In London" and "Lost Boys" with some really good skill by the writer, but Cursed just doesn't pull it off..
Though not so scary as horror films go, it had some good references to werewolf lore, plus some terrific acting by Christina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg, and Judy Greer.
(And the werewolf effects were worse in Cursed!)When I heard Wes Craven was doing a werewolf film, I thought, "Great!" When I saw Williamson's name, I thought, "Oh-oh .
Back in late 2004, I saw the trailer for a movie called Cursed and I thought it would be interesting to see Christina Ricci headline a horror film.
Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven try and add a little bit of Scream charm to werewolf movies.
Siblings Ellie and Jimmy Myers are attacked by a werewolf, and they become cursed.The only way to get rid of the curse is to kill the wolf.Wes Craven has come up with better than Cursed (2005).And so has writer Kevin Williamson.Like a couple of Scream movies.This has something good, though.The acting works, especially for the main stars.Christina Ricci, who's been around since she was a kid, plays Ellie Myers.Jesse Eisenberg, who has become a pretty big name the past few years, plays Jimmy Myers.Joshua Jackson plays the part of Jake Taylor.Judy Greer is Joanie.Milo Ventimiglia is Bo.Kristina Anapau portrays Brooke.Portia de Rossi plays Zela.Shannon Elizabeth is Becky.Mya is Jenny Tate.Michael Rosenbaum plays Kyle.Happy Days' Scott Baio plays himself.This movie has something semi-scary, like Mya in the elevator with the wolf trying to get her.And lets put there the dog gone crazy.I could be the grumpy old dude here and say they don't make them horror movies like they used to make.And that would be true, they really don't.If a movie leaves you only semi-scared, then something hasn't been done right.A great horror movie should make you afraid of your own shadow.For the rest of your life..
Except slightly better."Cursed", is just a lame horror movie from Wes Craven.