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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 Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson 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.

You don’t sit down to watch this movie – you attend its autopsy. As with another undernourished flop, Last Action Hero, there’s an interesting concept at its core, but a concept is all it is. Then again, who wants to see Scream rejigged as a werewolf flick when we’ve already got The Howling, An American Werewolf In London and Ginger Snaps?

In fact, you wouldn’t know you were watching another Craven/ Williamson collaboration but for the Dawson’s Creek-level characterization and irritatingly cute dialogue that’re the writer’s trademark. Anonymous, and overly slavish to the Scream formula, Cursed will make you wonder how it was supposed to reinvent the genre, unless having a werewolf flip the bird represents some great artistic breakthrough.