CURSED **Post Release** **potential spoilers**

[Sinlock]

My verbose opinion can be found filed in the appropriate place, which can be found here:

http://chud.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1406415#post1406415

My concise opinion of the film can be summed up by this word:

Herpes.

Anyone else catch this yet? I mean, I started to feel embarrased *for* the movie. It got a bit painful. :\

[NiveK]

Ouch. I just want to see a Rick Baker werewolf one last time, but I was really let down by what I seen on the cover of Fangoria, even though it was made by KNB.

[S.D. Bob Plissken]

Saw this for free earlier this evening. Was it the festering pile of shit that everyone claims it is? No, but it wasn't anywhere near good either. Horrible comedic moments (werewolf flipping the bird, anyone?), spotty CGI, and an overall clichedness. It was better than American Werewolf in Paris, although not by much. Even the R-rated cut couldn't be much better. It would just be a bad film with gore, that's all. Shame on you Wes Craven!

Actually, I take that back. Let's face it, out of the 20-some flicks he's made, Wes Craven is only really praised for FOUR: The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare On Elm Street, and Scream. He has a few other decent ones (New Nightmare, Swamp Thing, Serpent & the Rainbow, People Under the Stairs, and Scream 2), but for the most part his horror output is shit. His track record is no better than Tobe Hooper's (another person who has a select few good horror flicks, and a whole lot of crappy ones). Wes Craven never really has deserved the title of a "Master of Horror", and this list proves it....

- Stranger In Our House
- Deadly Blessing
- Invitation To Hell
- Chiller
- The Hills Have Eyes Part 2
- Casebusters
- Deadly Friend
- Shocker
- Night Visions
- Vampire In Brooklyn
- Scream 3
- Cursed

On that note, I guess I really shouldn't be surprised at how bad Cursed is. I know some people will probably jump in and defend one or two of those, but that's still not enough to explain his track record as a whole.

Sadly, I am still mildly looking forward to his next, Red Eye, which will hit theaters in August.

[Writhing Walt]

I'll step in and try to defend some of the movies on that list . . .

Summer of Fear (aka Strangers in Our House), Chiller, and Invitation to Hell were TV movies, if I'm not misaken. They shouldn't be compared to A Nightmare on Elm Street or Scream. I haven't seen Invitation to Hell, but I've seen those other two TV movies; and for TV movies, they're not bad. Not great, but not bad. They're simply average. (Note: Night Visions was TV work, too, but I haven't seen it . . .)

I'm only vaguely remembering Vampire in Brooklyn, but I seem to remember it being more comedy that horror. I don't think Casebusters is really horror, either.

I've been meaning to see Deadly Friend And Deadly Blessing, so I cannot comment on them. As for Shocker, it was certainly a misfire. I personally enjoyed it as an interesting rip-off of his own A Nightmare on Elm Street. It's a fun "B" movie, but I'm biased because I grew up with--and loved-- A Nightmare on Elm Street, and I'll always give Craven at least a chance because of it. Now, to Cursed: I saw it and I didn't like it. I laughed at some dumb things here and there. Although it wasn't good, it wasn't painful for me to watch. (Maybe that's because I saw it right after seeing Boogeyman, which was torture.)

I look at Craven's The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare on Elm Street, New Nightmare, and Scream (the first one is good), and I cannot help but at least wish for the best for his movies and give them a chance. You cannot deny his impact. Compared to a lot of other directors in horror, he can be included as being a "masster of terror." At least at one time . . . and, people, it's possible he can make a good horror movie again--New Nightmare being an example.