Current Events > The cast of Cursed (2005) was something else.

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Jessie Eisenberg
Christina Ricci
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Elizabeth Shannon
Mya
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Nick Offerman
Michael Rosenbaum
Judy Greer
Scott Baio
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What the fuck was this movie? And if you were wondering, yes Jessie Eisenberg plays Jessie Eisenberg in it just as he does in every movie.

I remember nothing about this movie except that it was awful.

thats a bad wes craven joint isnt it?

BuckVanHammer posted...

thats a bad wes craven joint isnt it?

It is indeed. Believe it was studio pressure and a slew of other things that made it suck.

If Craven and Williamson were left alone, it would have probably been good.

BuckVanHammer posted...

thats a bad wes craven joint isnt it?

I vaguely remembered this movie and looked it up. It wasn't his fault. The studio and the producers (some guys you might have heard of called the Weinsteins) just absolutely, totally fucked it.

They shot nearly the entire movie and then just completely redid it.

In early June 2003, after 54 days of filming and with only 4 weeks left to shoot the final confrontation at the Hollywood Wax Museum, Dimension Films decided to put the movie on hold because top executives at the company weren't happy with the film's ending or how the special effects were progressing, specifically the look of the film's lead lupine

Ultimately, the originally screenplay went under a major rewrite that turned Ellie and Jimmy into estranged siblings and morphed Vince into Ellies mysterious boyfriend Jake. From those 90 minutes, the new version only included about 12 minutes of the original footage.

They had Rick Baker on to do the werewolf effects. Baker has seven Oscars for makeup effects with eleven nominations, the first being for American Werewolf in London. They eventually threw out his work and just used CGI.

Rick Baker was preparing the final transformation effects when production stopped and asked Weinstein to let his team finish the work in order for it to be ready for the reshoot. "We were doing some really cool transformation stuff [but] it wasnt quite done so I said, Listen, if you ever think the films gonna pick up again, if you can keep a number of my people on for another month we can have this transformation stuff, welll put it in a box and well be ready to go. If they disperse now its gonna be like starting again because I need to have the same people." Weinstein eventually refused.

And then the second reshot was also deemed not good enough, so they went back. Twice.

From all versions of the film which were test screened to audiences (excluding the original version, which was never test screened), this one scored the highest, but Dimension Films was dissatisfied with it and demanded a new one. Actor Jesse Eisenberg, who, along with Christina Ricci, was one of the few actors to work in all the different versions, stated: The crazy part is that after we filmed the whole second version of the film, we had to go back for a third re-shoot which lasted about 20 days. That's like the length of an independent movie. And then we had to go back a fourth time for like 10 days and they made shirts that said Cursed 4: Back for More."

And then if that wasn't enough, they cut the movie down to a PG-13 rating.

In the fall of 2004, Dimension Films cut the film to a PG-13 rating instead of the planned R rating. Speaking to the New York Post, Craven commented, "The contract called for us to make an R-rated film. We did. It was a very difficult process. Then it was basically taken away from us and cut to PG-13 and ruined. It was two years of very difficult work and almost 100 days of shooting of various versions. Then at the very end, it was chopped up and the studio thought they could make more with a PG-13 movie, and trashed it ... I thought it was completely disrespectful, and it hurt them too, and it was like they shot themselves in the foot with a shotgun.

Christina Ricci not wolfing out was such a tease. I wanted to see her rip some heads off.

Is Elizabeth Shannon a different actress than Shannon Elizabeth?