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DVD Cursed (Unrated Version)
When you consider its unfortunate production history, Cursed turned out surprisingly well as a werewolf thriller that horror buffs will appreciate. It's hardly the disaster critics made it out to be, but extensive rewriting, reshooting, recasting, and lengthy delays in production and release (including the elimination of R-rated gore to earn a PG-13 rating) clearly took their toll. The result is a fun but flawed monster-show that begins when a young talk-show producer (Christina Ricci) and her teenaged brother (Jesse Eisenberg) are bitten by a werewolf, setting the stage for a horror-in-Hollywood scenario that reunites director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson, creators of the Scream franchise. What could have been a classic horror comedy is instead a fairly solid, if unremarkable, exercise in Los Angeles lycanthropy, featuring werewolf makeup by Rick Baker (combined with CGI transformation effects, of course) and some of Williamson's snappy dialogue and trademark pop-culture references. The title of Cursed doubles as a description of this movie's ultimate fate, but in a market filled with straight-to-video horror fodder, it's anything but a lost cause. The supporting cast includes Shannon Elizabeth, Portia de Rossi and Joshua Jackson, so genre aficionados should definitely check it out. --Jeff Shannon
This horror movie breaks a lot of rules and really ends up being a comedy which is as fun to watch as the old "Nightmare on Elm St" movies. A werewolf giving someone the finger? That's brilliant! And loved the twist on the jerk, jock, homophob turning out to be gay. I wasn't expecting that at all.
Closer to 4 Stars
From the creators of the Scream. That was almost enough to sell this movie to me in and of itself. The fact that it was a werewolf story, a subgenre done to death true, but with a fresh point of view did the rest.
Christina Riici(grown into a lovely young actress) stars as Ellie an assistant on the Late Late show, Jesse Eisenberg portrays her brother the typical high school geek. The two are on their way home when a car accident changes their lives for the worse.
I knew when I inserted the DVD into my player not to expect a too serious horror movie. With Williamson's script I expected as many laughs as shivers and found that definitely to be the case. In the screenplay Williamson has seemingly taken the best elements of the lighter side of horror and added his own sendup in inside lines and setting. Williamson also writes young angst really well, and this reviewer would have been more impressed by this aspect but it has been examined by various hollywood scribes to death. The positive side of this critique though is I got the impression Williamson realized this and even kept the angst of teenagehood from being too heavy a subplot.
As stated by others there were some wildly predictable points in the film and without them this movie would have undoubtedly rated 4 stars from me. Point of fact this is modelled after the Scream francise to a great extent so as one should not take An American Werewolf in London or King's Silver Bullet too seriously, so too is this film not meant to be taken too seriously.
The actors including Mya all did a fine job with script given, and Eisenberg is so good at playing the outsider teenager he almost stole the show in this movie.
The special features were interesting but I would have liked some deleted scenes or maybe bloopers. Otherwise I recommend this movie highly bearing in mind it is not a likely Oscar bait movie.
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loved it but they should've used the unrated version in the theaters because it would have been an R but chrisitina ricci's forehead had a bigger part in the movie than she did lol
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Since movies began, thrillers have depended on a door just slightly ajar, with a narrow slit of darkness that promises to hold your worst fears. In the first five minutes of Boogeyman, a young boy's father is violently sucked into a closet, scarring the boy so badly that he grows up to be blank-faced Barry Watson (7th Heaven), who plays Tim, an editor at a newspaper or a magazine or something. Tim, to impress his girlfriend's parents, wears a coat and tie but doesn't shave his sexy stubble. A premonition of his mother's death drives him back to his childhood home so he can exorcise his phobias. From there...well, there's lots of atmospheric cinematography, regular jolts of loud music, and many quick edits. What actually happens is pretty obscure and, really, not worth... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Barry Watson - Emily Deschanel - Lucy Lawless Director(s): Stephen T. Kay DVD Release Date: Released the 31 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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In the grand scheme of theological thrillers, Constantine aspires for the greatness of The Exorcist but ranks more closely with The Order. Based on the popular Hellblazer comic book series, and directed with nary a shred of intelligence by music video veteran Francis Lawrence, it's basically The Matrix with swarming demons instead of swarming machines. Keanu Reeves slightly modifies his Matrix persona as John Constantine, who roams the dark-spots of Los Angeles looking for good-evil, angel-devil half-breeds to ensure that "the balance" between God and Satan is properly maintained. An ancient artifact and the detective twin of a woman who committed evil-induced suicide (Rachel Weisz) factor into the plot, which is taken so seriously that you'll... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Keanu Reeves - Rachel Weisz - Djimon Hounsou Director(s): Francis Lawrence (II) DVD Release Date: Released the 19 July 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Brutal and breathtaking, Sin City is Robert Rodriguez's stunningly realized vision of Frank Miller's pulpy comic books. In the first of three separate but loosely related stories, Marv (Mickey Rourke in heavy makeup) tries to track down the killers of a woman who ended up dead in his bed. In the second story, Dwight's (Clive Owen) attempt to defend a woman from a brutal abuser goes horribly wrong, and threatens to destroy the uneasy truce among the police, the mob, and the women of Old Town. Finally, an aging cop on his last day on the job (Bruce Willis) rescues a young girl from a kidnapper, but is himself thrown in jail. Years later, he has a chance to save her again.
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Dakota Fanning--the elfin star of Uptown Girls, The Cat in the Hat, and Man on Fire--trades in her blond locks for a semi-gothic brunette do in Hide and Seek. Fanning plays Emily, a young girl whose mother commits suicide. To help Emily through the trauma, her father David (Robert DeNiro), a psychologist, takes her to an isolated house in upstate New York. But instead of healing, Emily gets dark circles under her eyes, mutilates her favorite doll, and develops an imaginary friend named Charlie. In no time at all, things get spooky and David suspects this imaginary friend isn't so friendly. Hide and Seek owes a lot to The Shining, but whether the creepiness is borrowed or not, there's a decent dose of it (though the twist at the end is unlikely to... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Robert De Niro - Dakota Fanning - Famke Janssen - Elisabeth Shue Director(s): John Polson DVD Release Date: Released the 05 July 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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