10 Movie Flops You've Probably Forgotten
4. Cursed
Given the sorry state of their pre-Scream horror pictures, you can see why Dimension Films wanted to milk their relationship with Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson, so for the company that released Hellraiser: Bloodline and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers to shut down their latest collaboration, something would have to be very, very wrong.
Touted as the movie that’d do for werewolves what Scream did for the Slasher genre, Cursed was a botched attempt to wring a new franchise out of the pair after Craven publicly stated he wouldn’t direct Scream 4 (well, not yet). Greenlit without a properly developed script, two thirds of the movie were in the can when Dimension, exasperated at what they were seeing, shut the picture down and packed Williamson off to rework his screenplay.
The finished film didn’t see the light of day until 2005, by which time it had racked up over $40 million in production costs and enough bad word of mouth to sink it at the box office. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a third-rate effort with a weak script”, the movie conformed to expectations and grossed less than $30 million worldwide.