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Historical werewolf horror takes an innovative bite

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...

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

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

Gory revenge horror has scares, child deaths, violence. Read Common Sense Media's The Cursed review, age rating, and parents guide.

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

“The Cursed” - ★ ★ ★ I hesitate to label Sean Ellis' gothic thriller as a “werewolf movie,” simply because the term connotes a host of cliches...

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 >

EIGHT FOR SILVER is a long, drawn-out horror flick that isn't worth the time.

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

The results are mixed, but when writer/director Sean Ellis digs deep into his genre riffs and dread-laced atmosphere, "The Cursed" really works.

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

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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.

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

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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.

In spite of an often slack runtime, distant emotion, and uneven scares, there’s a violently entertaining mix of classic trappings and digital terror here.

Coming to Blu-ray and DVD Tuesday, May 10th is the latest film by writer and director Sean Ellis (Metro Manila, Anthropoid), The Cursed. In the French countr...

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

There's a great cast in "Eight For Silver," a Gothic horror that features Kelly Reilly, Boyd Holbrook, and Alistair Petrie, but it soon falls prey to tropes

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.

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