Sight Unseen: February 25, 2005

Cursed
Slow week for movies. Slow 2 weeks for this blog. The lack of update can be blamed partially on my illness, which has lasted a personal record 14 days (and counting). In the course of being sick, I also became dehydrated and my lip split. The resulting dried blood and scarring are the stuff of horror flicks.

So, what is this movie? The trailer bills it as another creation from the "Master of Terror" (what University confers that degree?), Wes Craven. I suspect it's a werewolf flick, although the previews (wisely?) don't show any (crappy CGI?) creatures. If I remember that old Fox series Werewolf correctly, the guy with lycanthropy had a pentagram on his palm: much like the one featured in the trailers for Cursed.

Cursed carries a PG-13 rating, which seems tame for a horror flick. What does the benign PG-13 rating mean exactly? No significant cursing? No nudity? No excessive gore? Aren't those the crucial ingredients of a horror film? Maybe the Cravenly one can put together a significantly shocking film under the constraints of a PG-13. Christina Ricci should help; she was in Monster and The Addams Family flicks.