Sean Ellis’ vivid, rich horror movie has startling practical effects and a real eye for spooky images, but it leans too much on a racist trope and familiar elements like creepy nursery rhymes and repetitive nightmares. In theaters now.
Sean Ellis' werewolf movie "The Cursed" tarts itself up a bit with 19th-century gothic imagery and a steady atmospheric gloom, but the script, which Ellis also wrote, can't escape most of the worst cliches of the genre, and its earnestness alone can't keep it from being pretty insipid.
'The Cursed' review: Boyd Holbrook plays a pathologist in 19th century Europe investigating a werewolf outbreak in an artsy monster movie from filmmaker Sean Ellis.