Language - English
Genre - Horror, werewolf
On their way home Ellie and her brother
Jimmy hit an animal in the road causing them to crash in to another car which
they knock off the road. Whilst they are trying to help the other driver
they are attacked by the animal. Ellie and Jimmy get away but, over the
next few they begin to realise that they are changing into something else.
The race is on to find out who the werewolf who attacked them is and to
kill them to stop the change and the killing.
Cursed is a Werewolf film directed by
Wes Craven and it deliberately plays along the lines of a standard werewolf
film, for a bit. As with a lot of Wes Craven's films it has a dark sense of
humor and a sense that it doesn't take itself totally serious. The
standard setup is the same as a lot of werewolf films, the main character, or
in this case two of the main characters get bitten by a werewolf and then they
have to deal with the consequences. The one advantage of having two
victims of the wolf attack is that we are shown two ways of dealing with the
change. First up there is Jimmy, the younger of the siblings who is
slightly nerdy and often accused of being gay, which he isn’t. It doesn't
help that he is interested in Jenny the school jocks (Bo) girlfriend. As
in other werewolf/vampire films of this type Jimmy has a convenient collection
of werewolf comics to help in his research into what is happening to him and,
of course no one believes him, even Ellie to begin with. Jimmy's story
line takes a 'Teen Wolf' approach to coping with the wolf curse, pushed by Bo's
bullying he ends up at tryouts for the wrestling team where he shows that he is
stronger and more athletic than the rest, although unlike Teen Wolf he does not
need to turn into the wolf to do so.
Ellie, on the other hand has trouble
believing that they are cursed, to begin with she refused to believe that the
original attack was by a werewolf but as time moves on she can’t deny the
changes that are happening to her.
There are parts of Cursed that seem to
use traditional vampire law instead of the recognised werewolf law for instance
silver will hurt a wolf but not necessarily kill it. To kill the wolf you
only need to separate the brain form the body.
To end their curse Ellie and Jimmy find
they have to kill the wolf who turned them but who is it.
Cursed is a good film, it does not take itself too seriously
and has a good story. Most werewolf films have a victim coping with the
curse and not necessarily trying to end it or have a pack of wolves terrorizing
a community/group of people but Cursed we have the victims trying to end the
curse without doing too much damage themselves and this works well as there are
more there is more than one wolf.
We also have Christina Ricci gothing up and looking
cute so that’s always a bonus.
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