With a lot of fanfare, "Cursed" is the latest movie by horror director legend Wes Craven – his first film in 5 years - and once again written by Kevin Williamson, who penned the director’s successful "Scream" franchise. Although I’ve enjoyed some of Craven’s work a lot in the past, especially his Freddy Krueger films as well as movies such as "The Serpent and the Rainbow," I’ve never been much of a fan of Kevin Williamson, who creates one shallow horror film after another, mostly without real soul but a lot of teenage moronics. With that in mind, I was a bit trepid about "Cursed" but the Wes Craven admirer in me won over and I checked out "Cursed," their collaborative entry into the werewolf genre. After a car accident a young woman, Ellie (Christina Ricci) and her brother Jake (Joshua Jackson) are attacked by a werewolf - on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles out of all places. Without realizing it a first they begin to change and before long they realize that the beast that attacked them may in fact have been a werewolf and in order to prevent turning into werewolves themselves they will have to kill the wolf that infected them. Yes, you have heard and seen all this before, I’m sure, and it doesn’t sound all too interesting after having seen this sort of story for a thousand times, and exactly this is the movie’s biggest problem – its utter lack of imagination.
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