The Cursed (2021)
A gypsy curse hangs over a nineteenth century village in the appropriate, but generically-titled film, “The Cursed”. The movie was written and directed by Sean Ellis, starring Boyd Holbrook and Amelia Crouch. It has many traditional horror film elements, but is put together in an original way. It creates a spooky, foreboding atmosphere and maintains it throughout. Writer-director Ellis also acts director of photography. Production design is by Pascal Le Guellec and Thierry Zemmour.
The film begins in 1917 as World War I rages in France. In the midst of a horrific poison gas attack. A soldier is wounded by multiple rounds. A surgeon removes bullets, one of which looks nothing like a traditional bullet. Then it goes back thirty-five years, when the vast majority of the movie takes place.
A group of gypsies settle in a village on land whose ownership is disputed. The nearby village decides that the threat of hiring mercenaries to get rid of the gypsies is enough, but things quickly deteriorate.The attack culminates in the brutal killing of a gypsy, who’s hands and feet are cut off. Then he’s raised up off the ground to resemble a scarecrow, but mostly as a warning to others. A gypsy woman is brutally killed clutching a set of silver fangs.
The area where this occurred is now off limits to the villagers, particularly the young ones. Of course the young ones, who are plagued by dreams involving the events, go to the site where the “scarecrow” still is.
There have been numerous werewolf movies, but “The Cursed” manages to be original. The look of the film reminded me of “The Others” - a foreboding, cloudy, dreamlike place entirely unto itself. The cast is uniformly fine. It’s maybe a little too long. The first forty-minutes are stronger than the last seventy. That said, “The Cursed” is a good addition to the werewolf genre, even though the werewolves look like the creatures from a section of the seminal mid-90′s video game, “Resident Evil”.
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James, Lily, Sirius, Evan, Dorcas, and Amelia: I like making other people happy. It’s nice to be the reason someone else is smiling.
Regulus, Mary, Remus, Barty, Marlene, and Emmeline: I take pride in the fact that people don’t like me. I hate you too, bitch.
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Mary, Amelia, Hestia, Xeno, Sybill, Pandora, Alice, Andromeda, Amos, Lucinda, Edgar : I like making other people happy. It’s nice to be the reason someone else is smiling.
Barty, Evan, Dorcas, Remus, Sirius, Kingsley, Emma, Belllatrix, Emmeline: I take pride in the fact that people don’t like me. I hate you too, bitch.
James, Lily, Marlene, Narcissa, Peter: Please like me, my pride can't handle anything else. Even if you don't at least pretend.
Dirk, Benjy, Sirius (again), Regulus: Like me, or don't, idc (they care)
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Figure You Out by VIOLÀ but it’s Barty, singer, singing at a show where he sees Reg after writing the song about Reg and James.
Like Reg and Barty locking gazes and you can see that Reg knows it’s about him and Barty winks before turning to the crowd to continue.
And James not understanding because not a single soul knows about the short relationship Barty and Reg had.
And Evan (who’s in the duo with Barty) is trying to explain to James what happened with just a look. But James doesn’t understand because he can’t read minds.
Then a few shows later Edgar shows up (still on that) and Evan is playing directly towards HIM
And it’s a mess of Evan trying to seduce Edgar and Barty trying to seduce Reg.
Bonus if Edgar is dating Benjy Fenwick (but boom they break up and Benjy goes with Peter)
And James dating Reg but they break up so James goes with Lily
And Xeno and Benjy are Edgar’s best friends so therefore Pandora’s so (including Evan) it’s a big group (but Amelia Bones and Emma Vanity and Alice Fortescue are the og friends instead of Evan and Pandora)
•So the group is Amelia, Emma, Alice, Xeno, Benjy, Edgar
•with invitation to Evan, Pandora, and Peter
And Barty and Sirius are friends because I said so
And Remus and Regulus are friends because I said so
And Dorlene is happening. Dorcas is Barty and Evan’s manager and Marlene is security
And Barty is openly gay in every way possible while Evan isn’t closeted but he’s a 50/50 and no one knows for sure
And Evan had an affair with Emmeline so Rita Skeeter writes about that and there’s a rumor and that rumor made Edgar not date Evan because “Evan was dating Emmeline” and he “didn’t want to be the reason they broke up”
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