Cursed

My tolerance for pop slasher / monster movies is admittedly too high, and Cursed is on my list of guilty pleasures. Well, not exactly pleasures, but it's a movie I watch once or twice a year, so that says something. As a childhood fan I'm still a weird sucker for Christina Ricci and for some inexplicable reason Joshua Jackson charms me in almost every bullying cocky role I see him in. His characters shallowly insist they are burdened by good looks or intelligence and inevitably I sigh and knit happily through unbearable dialogue. It's nice. For the most part Cursed a just a fluffy thriller more intent on making you guess who the wolf is than actually scaring you, but there's one thing I can think of to recommend it: stars! The cast is happy list of surprises: Portia de Rossi, Judy Greer, Craig Kilborn, and Scott Baio (the last two cameo as themselves). It makes me want to eat popcorn. Cursed is exactly that movie you want to see when you want to rent a teen horror movie but can't bear to rent most of them. It won't really be good, but at those times you don't really feel committed to quality but still aren't in the mood for something that didn't have at least some sort of budget. That's Cursed. Plus, Judy Greer.
[Photo: Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg are intensely frightened, attractive]