 Reviewers were finally able to get a look at the seemingly cursed movie Cursed over the weekend, having to buy tickets at the box office to see it, after the studio refused to provide press screenings. They reacted pretty much as expected, almost all of them remarking that the filmmakers -- director Wes Craven (the Scream movies, Nightmare on Elm Street) and Kevin Williamson (the Scream movies, I Know What You Did Last Summer) -- had failed to produce a sufficiently entertaining film despite three years of editing and reshooting. Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post commented, "They've both had better days." Peter Howell in the Toronto Star expressed his disappointment in the film this way: "The only thing worse than a bad horror movie is a bad horror movie made by good people." A.O. Scott wrote in the New York Times: "Mr. Craven, a master of the genre, could put together scary scenes in his sleep, which may be what he has done here. Many of the usual technical and narrative conventions are observed, but without imaginative vigor or self-conscious playfulness." |
