The Cursed is a foggy, sluggish variation on the old-school werewolf movie

Universal Horror’s The Wolf Man popularized gypsy cursed werewolf lore, but lycanthropy horror has deviated from that mythology significantly in the deca...

Last year’s Sundance Film Festival brought period Gothic horror Eight for Silver from writer/director Sean Ellis. The filmmaker introduced exciting new ...

From a ruthless ambush to a dying woman’s curse to a mysterious fanged creature, there’s plenty to scare in the violent shocker.

Ellis has made it very clear that the emotional core of the film is the suffering of marginalized, displaced, and slaughtered people. Why then are we spendin...

03/02/2021 - All the fog in the world can't hide the fact that there is not much to see in Sean Ellis's horror

Director Sean Ellis’ period horror film has great atmosphere, great gore, but little else. Read Joe Lipsett's review.

Talented filmmaker Sean Ellis' visuals are often spectacular, but the film searches for a human dimension amid the horror.

Ahhh-who is lurking in the foggy forest?

Eight For Silver is an assured, engaging chiller that takes an ambitious bite out of the wolfman legacy

THE CURSED is a new horror mystery in the werewolf subgenre. Extremely atmospheric and with a fresh take on the werewolf myth. Full Review >

'The Cursed' review: Boyd Holbrook plays a pathologist in 19th century Europe investigating a werewolf outbreak in an artsy monster movie from filmmaker Sean...

From ‘First Date’ to ‘My Name is Pauli Murray’ to ‘Passing,’ Sundance Film Fest offers some memorable gems.

At times chillingly effective, ‘The Cursed’ is too long and also reinforces racist tropes in its werewolf treatment.

But also relies on some particularly awful, racist old ones

Despite being afflicted with some common tropes of the horrorgenre, Sean Ellis’ The Cursed (which had the less generic title Eightfor Silver when it premie...

In 18th century France, a pathologist investigates a series of bloody attacks that seems to be the work of a wolf.

A look at three films that premiered on Saturday at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. 

No self-respecting werewolf movie would be caught undead without its silver bullets, a torchlit search for “the monster” through the gloom, with survivor...

Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly and Alistair Petrie star in director Sean Ellis' essential contribution to a sub-genre desperately in need of reinvigoration.

Sean Ellis bays at the moon in this deliciously slippery werewolf drama

Boyd Holbrook hunts werewolves in this atmospheric thriller that has a lot on its mind. Read our Eight for Silver review from Sundance 2021 here.

Sundance 2021 has been filled with so many movies about—and made in—the current pandemic that a 19th-century, gory genre flick feels like a return to nor...

Director Sean Ellis’s The Cursed is somewhat convoluted, but the acting in this handsome gothic horror film is high class

Channing Tatum hits the road for a canine 'The Last Detail' and a werewolf plague sweeps through the 19th century French countryside in Sean Ellis' semi-arty...

The Cursed, written and directed by English filmmaker Sean Ellis, isn’t a werewolf picture in the strict sense: there’s nothing shaggy or wolflike about ...

Original take on the werewolf genre looks gorgeous with aptly creepy design elements and eerie cinematography, but lacks thematic direction.