10 Movies Delayed To "Get It Right" (That Still Got It Wrong)
7. Cursed - The Werewolf Serial Killer Film Which Lost Its Serial Killer And Gained A PG-13 Rating
Look, we love Scream helmer and horror icon Wes Craven here at WhatCulture. The man created Freddy Krueger for god’s sake—we won’t hear a bad word about him. And to a lesser extent Scream scribe Kevin Williamson gave us that classic slasher series, the vintage throwback I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Dawson’s Creek, so he gets a pass too.
That said, when the pair reunited in 2005 to film Cursed, a werewolf horror comedy starring Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg, the troubled production really should have clued them in that the collaboration was doomed.
The film was three quarters of the way to cineplexes when Dimension, the studio backing Williamson and Craven, demanded rewrites which jettisoned its central serial-killer hunting plot, cut out the roles of Skeet Ulrich, Omar Epps, James Brolin, and Heather Langenkamp, and even replaced SFX maestro Rick Baker despite the artist creating one of cinema’s greatest werewolf transformations decades earlier.
Inevitably, this was all for nought, as the studio’s changes softened the hard-R horror into a PG-13 catastrophe which sank with both audiences and critics and was soon forgotten.