Please don't spend money on this.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

THE CURSED is a very low budget, straight-to-video local horror production from America. It was filmed in Tennessee and is notable for featuring real-life siblings Costas and Louis Mandylor who also play siblings in the movie. Costas Mandylor is of course well known for his prominent role in the SAW sequels. In this film they're sheriffs looking into a rural mystery involving supernatural horror. The film is slow and occasionally atmospheric, but the demonic storyline doesn't really convince and the supernatural scenes are quite laughably over the top.

This movie starts out interesting when the little girl is looking for her cat and wanders into the woods, something you'd think her mother would have warned her against. When the mom finds only her hand you think this is going to be a bad ass movie! Sweet! Then it takes a U-turn and gets slow like a typical bad horror film. A mysterious stranger comes to town and animals and people start dying off. The sheriff tells him we don't want "no trouble"-which of course is what they get! And it's all the stranger's fault, even though the town has a history of disappearances and bizarre things. This movie has so many clichés that you and your partner can take turns saying them! Like the sexy, young librarian that doesn't exist in real life! The mysterious stranger just happens to be writing a book about murders in the south and comes into the library. She gives him a book with all the history that she has just for that occasion! As he reads, he begins to figure out what has alluded the towns people for hundreds of years! Really??! His friend happens to have a rifle that shoots at "mock 20" (WTF is that?) And we all know that the creature is sooo fast a regular gun just won't do... When the sheriff and his wife are murdered, the sheriff duties fall to his younger brother. The townsfolk don't trust his abilities and want to form a vigilante group. He doesn't believe this is a good idea-if nothing else to prove he isn't 100% redneck, but only 85%. And we all know he has a "murder investigation to attend to!" We find that the mysterious stranger and the creature are related. His ancestor turned to the dark side when all his slaves were freed. Well, he was old and pathetic and Satan was bored, so he turned him into the "creature" who after hundreds of years wants "released" and has been "waiting" for the stranger, which is kinda like his salvation or something. The ending is even worse. You don't know who shot who and you don't really care.

The Mandylor brothers, Louis and Costas, who aren't getting any younger or better in the acting department, costar in this no-budget demon-hunting tale set in a Steven King-type small town. The demon has been awakened from a long sleep by the arrival of a young writer, whose family was from the town and who is connected to it somehow. It starts off by killing some cattle and then tears up a whole bunch of people, including most of the cast, which isn't all that large. The script is pretty bad, the acting is wooden, and the special effects are just so-so. The demon itself isn't all that bad-looking and wisely is kept in shadow most of the time -- and frankly it could just as easily have been a werewolf. I think the filmmakers were influenced by the TV show, SUPERNATURAL. The ending is lifted from both John Carpenter's THE THING and THE FALLEN.

I'm originally from McMinnville, Tennessee, where this movie was filmed. I was an extra in a few different scenes and spent a lot of time watching while they were filming it. At the time, and while waiting for the movie to finally come out, I was very excited to see it on the big screen. Unfortunately, that excitement wore off quick.I'm glad that small towns such as mine are starting to get noticed by the film industry, but the portrayal of the town was downright embarrassing. From the horrible southern accents to the awful acting, it made it hard to get through this movie.The beginning of the movie started out very slow. It seemed like every time a commercial came on I felt as if nothing at all had happened and I sat there wondering, "When is the action going to start?" Truthfully, there wasn't enough action in this film at all. The plot is pretty much obvious from the start and you can guess what's going to happen next.Some general complaints about the movie: 01. Way too many people die right off the bat and throughout the whole film. It's as if literally the entire cast of the movie is killed by this creature. 02. Now I've always been a horror movie buff, so I know fear. This film instilled no fear in me at all, probably because there was no guesswork involved; everything is laid out for you. 03. The special effects are cringe-worthy at best. This seemed like one of those corny Syfy Originals and that disappointed me because I was hoping for so much more. 04. The movie was originally going to be called Tenebrous, meaning dark, shadowy, obscure, but it was changed to The Cursed after the co-producer died. What a shotty thing to do!It was hard for me to gain a real interest in this film and be able to sit down throughout the whole thing because there was no mystery. There was nothing in this film that kept me guessing or hanging on the edge of my seat. Even the ending was disappointing for me. It ended in a cliffhanger, which is okay if there's a sequel in the works but there's not.So if you haven't guessed already, I don't recommend seeing this film. It's cheesy and guessable, and it's hard to imagine that Costas Mandylor, star of the Saw films, shared in the creation of this movie. It's not a film that I would be interested in wasting my money on or watching again, even if I were paid to do it. Believe me, you'd rather be spending your time doing something else.