Cursed (2005 film)

Cursed
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWes Craven
Written byKevin Williamson
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyRobert McLachlan
Edited byPatrick Lussier
Music byMarco Beltrami
Production
companies
Distributed byMiramax Films
Release date
  • February 25, 2005 (2005-02-25) (United States)
Running time
97 minutes,[1] 99 minutes (uncut)[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$38-100 million[3][4]
Box office$25.1-29.6 million[5][6]

Cursed is a 2005 American horror comedy film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson, who both collaborated on the Scream film series. The film stars Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg as two orphaned siblings attacked by a werewolf loose in Los Angeles.

Originally planned for 2003, the film took over two more years to be made than originally planned, during which producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein kept asking for reshoots and changes to the plot, re-edited the movie to give a PG-13 rating rather than the original intended R-rating, and fired veteran makeup artist Rick Baker to replace the werewolves he had created with computer-generated ones, even rumored to at one point to hire Disney animator Eric Goldberg to animate an opening sequence for the film [7][8][9] Cursed was released theatrically in the United States on February 25, 2005, by Miramax Films. The film was a box-office bomb and received generally negative reviews from critics; Craven himself was very displeased with the final result.[9][10]

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  2. ^ "Cursed [Collector's Edition]". Shout! Factory.
  3. ^ Pizowell (July 14, 2021). Patrick Lussier on Cursed (2005) - The Disastrous Production, The Many Cuts & Will We Ever See Them. Retrieved July 19, 2021 – via YouTube.
  4. ^ Thurman, Trace (October 16, 2019). "[Interview] Jesse Eisenberg Recalls the Troubled Production of Wes Craven's Cursed". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  5. ^ Cursed at Box Office Mojo
  6. ^ "Weekend Box Office Performance - Cursed (2005)". the-numbers.com. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
  7. ^ "Wes Craven Talks YEAH! and His Untold Stories". CraveOnline. March 18, 2013. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  8. ^ "Rick Baker's "Judy Greer Werewolf" From Wes Craven's 'Cursed'". Bloody Disgusting. September 3, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  9. ^ a b Valdez, Joe (January 10, 2009). "A Silver Bullet In the Foot". This Distracted Globe. Archived from the original on March 3, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  10. ^ Capone (March 1, 2009). "Wes Craven talks to Capone about 25/8, remakes, and the 'Cursed' experience of revisting [sic] old franchises!!". Ain't It Cool News. Retrieved September 2, 2017.