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I was really hoping to get some good witchy horror but just got this...the lead feels so off vibe for the tone they were going for. What can I say...if that girl is a nurse I am Marilyn Monroe.

It is impossible to feel any scare through this character, I gave it a 3 stars for Mena Suvari and Meg Foster, and maybe the production design...the houses are really creepy...but that just come with the southern gothic style.

The opening feels from a completely different movie, and it is so disappointing that it is not that movie.

Thought to turned off before half way but kept the hope it would get better...so naive.

Elinor is asked to look after a very strange, elderly lady living remotely in the woods, Elly quickly learns that Mrs Ambrose isn't all she makes out to be.

I didn't hate it, but I found it impossible to get into it, after a pretty interesting opening scene it becomes a little slow, it takes an age to get into the main body of the story.

I may be wrong, but I wonder if it is a made for TV movie, it has that kind of low budget feel about it, the special effects and camera work are a little clunky throughout.

The acting is a mixed bag, some of it is very wooden, some of it is alright, I quite enjoyed Sarah Grey's performance.

If you're looking for a Halloween chiller this year, The Accursed is more tepid.

5/10.

THE ACCURSED is a typically cheap and uninteresting low budget horror yarn that's far too dark for its own good and really tedious on a visual level. The story sees a young woman taking on the role of carer for a mysterious reclusive elderly lady living in a remote cabin, and an aged Mena Suvari shows up as a sinister aide. The patient turns out to be '80s favourite Meg Foster, not that she has much to do. The lead is unlikeable and the horror limited to predictable possession scares and some gross-out moments I didn't much care for, but perhaps if you could actually see what was going on it would all be a little bit better.

Make no mistake, this movie is pretty bad. But I still enjoyed it. I'm really forgiving when it comes to demon or possession movies.

But there are huge gaps of logic, plot leaps where swear you missed something or an entire scene or transition was cut. And rather crazy things happen that the characters have zero reaction to. Or accept with a shrug. Sure it keeps the plot moving, but it doesn't add up.

If you can get past all that without an eyeroll every few minutes, this film can be a good one-time watch. I liked the concept and general storyline. And acting isn't too bad. It's shot well, some cool demon-y stuff.

The entire movie kept going like a plane with 3 out of 4 engines on fire. It is mediocre at best. No surprises, and precious few jump scares. Highly predictable.

Sad because the acting is really good. But the movie pacing and the script were really poor.

Has a number of plot holes too, and things happen in a too convenient way to move the thin plot along.

It almost entertains. We kept waiting to see if it would get better, hoping final act would make up for the first half. But no, it was not meant to be.

Falls flat like a pancake. There is one cool cgi effect that its cool the first time but then they use it over and over down to the last scene.

Overall, The Accursed 2022 ( not to be confused with any of the other accursed movies out there) was pretty underwhelming. The acting is a bit wooden at times, but not horrible. It's a fairly straightforward and predictable horror movie. I was drawn to this film because it has Alexis Knapp in it. Alexis isn't the greatest actor in the world, but she is cute, and I am glad she is trying to make a comeback found out about this. Sadly this movie doesn't give her much to work with. They really underutilized Alexis, as she is only in a few scenes despite being the best actor in the movie. I do love that Alexis got her daughter to be in this film with her. Little Kailani Knapp is actually super creepy and was perfect for the part she plays. I hope she has a big career ahead of her. Sarah Dumont, who I hadn't heard of prior to watching this film, is gorgeous, and the film knows it. In practically every scene, she is either in a workout bra or showing ample cleavage. She probably only got the part to be the movie's eye candy, but who can blame them? However, besides looking pretty, the script doesn't really give her much to do. In fact, all three of the female leads are beautiful, but it doesn't change the fact that the movie is a bit bland. There are a few jump scares here and there, but for the most part, it is all things you have seen done better in other horror movies, with one exception that I won't. All I'll say is it was gross. Overall, It wasn't a bad film, but I'd probably say wait until you can see it on a streaming service you already pay for.

This was more fun than I had expected. First of all, the opening to the movie was great! Whoever came up with that idea was on the ball. The story throughout was spooky and the actors did an amazing job. As for the story.... my knowing there's something fishy happening but not knowing who to trust gave me a feeling similar to the one I got while watching The Skeleton Key. As a movie with a movie-sized budget (I'm assuming), it was okay. I didn't feel like I wasted my time and thought it was decent. As an episode of something like Supernatural, it would have been extremely well received and highly praised. If I come to learn that this was made on a small budget, I'll add a star to my score.

When I sat down to watch the 2022 horror movie "The Accursed" I actually never had heard about the movie. I happened to stumble upon the movie, and given my life-long romance with the horror genre, of course I had to sit down and watch what writer Rob Kennedy and director Kevin Lewis had to offer.

I will say that the plot and storyline in "The Accursed", as written by Rob Kennedy, made for an adequate enough movie. If you are a newcomer to the horror genre, then I think you will most definitely enjoy the movie a lot more than I did as a seasoned horror veteran. To me, however, the movie was watchable, but writer Rob Kennedy just didn't bring anything new to the genre, and the movie was sort of a mediocre result at the hands of director Kevin Lewis.

The acting performances in "The Accursed" were good, and it certainly was nice to see Meg Foster in the movie, and she had a very good role in the movie as well. I am not overly familiar with leading actress Sarah Grey, but she did carry the movie quite well.

The special effects in the movie were good. Now, keep in mind that "The Accursed" is not a horror movie that throws one special effects in your face after another. No, the movie makes use of special effects when needed, and they definitely helped to further the narrative quite well. And the special effects were good.

I doubt that I will ever return to watch "The Accursed" a second time, though it made for an adequate enough viewing the first time around.

My rating of "The Accursed" lands on a five out of ten stars.

Accidentaly run across this and love it. What you read in the imdb synopsis is pretty much the movie, but yeah, watching it at night with the lights off will make you want to bring your crosses near:))) It's one of those horror movies that does not rely heavily on gore and blood (although there is quite a bit of that also), but on creating a really creepy tense atmosephere and a sense of terror (the one you get with small reflections in the mirror or shadows passing by caught by the corner of the eye and jumpscares). Bonus points for my favourite setting - characters stuck in an isolated location with evil lurking. Coherent plot, and although there are some holes and dubious decisions from the characters, they are not silly enough to make you roll your eyes and take you out and away from what is going on. Cool ending. Take it for what it is - a fun horror movie and the experience will be great.

Lost of cons as general audience suggests but also have some pros....

1. Two songs and very catchy two is Written by "Émoi", already famous for Willies wonderland theme song!

2. Nice acting by dashing Sarah Dumont and Mena Suvari and blue eyed star Meg Foster! So casting is good!

3. The ending is just like a top notch Horror movie!

4. Directed by Willies wonderland famed director Rob Kennedy!

5. May b short but decent special effects!

Overall a good effort for a low budget flick. You can discuss all day about every drawback near about everything until you see it for yourself! So, yeah! Give it a try.............

Nice to see Mena Suvari and Meg Foster again after all these years. Some of the scenes are quite creepy. There is an art to low budget horror but this film hasn't learnt it.

We've seen it all before. The plot has all the aspects of possession that you would expect but the physical possession is something little different.

The ending is pretty poor as is the acting. Definitely one to avoid.

Nice to see Mena Suvari and Meg Foster again after all these years. Some of the scenes are quite creepy. There is an art to low budget horror but this film hasn't learnt it.

We've seen it all before. The plot has all the aspects of possession that you would expect but the physical possession is something little different.

The ending is pretty poor as is the acting. Definitely one to avoid.

THE ACCURSED, not to be confused with the identically named movie from 2021, tells the story of a young nurse who takes on a short-term job caring for a quasi-comatose old lady in a house out in nowhere, basically as a means of distracting herself from the recent suicide of her mother. Little does she know that she is being set up by demonic forces to give much more than her clinical services.

The prologue features some atmospheric cinematography which suggests a dark fantasy setting of the past even though it is actually set in the present. It also foreshadows the main problem with this movie: we can predict what will happen from a mile away. This is a major issue when the aim for much of the movie is to build creepy tension.

The story offers few innovations apart from the fact that all major characters are female. The acting varies, with the strongest performances coming from Meg Foster, Mena Suvari and Sarah Dumont. The visuals are nice but not enough to compensate for the lack of tension due to predictability.

I was going to write this off as a mediocre horror film, but unfortunately the film takes a nosedive in the last 15 minutes or so because the details of the course of events and especially the behavior of the characters, though running as predicted, become increasingly implausible. That is, implausibility is stacked on top of predictability. Unmotivated details like the face mask merely remind us that such horror gimmicks have been executed far more effectively in previous movies (For example, see the similar scene in DEVIL'S REJECTS (2005)).

Also, the impact of the climax is sabotaged by the fact that the cool horror idea with the demon hand coming out of the mouth was already shown in a couple of earlier scenes. In my opinion, it would have been more effective to save it up and also spend more time on showing the whole body transformation more slowly.

At any rate, the movie ends with what is meant to be a bang but left me curiously unmoved. I suspect the reason is that the demon's motivations at that point were not clear to me.

This was an uneven effort which fell short of its potential. A better script especially could have elevated this to a good horror film.

The Accursed could be described as part The Taking of Deborah Logan (though it's not found footage) and part The Last Shift, although these films are masterpieces compared to The Accursed. One line from the film; 'are you ready to gaze into hell?' should be answered with a strong 'no' to anyone wishing to not waste 90 minutes of their life.

The film immediately reveals Ms. Ambrose (Meg Foster) to be a witch proficient in curses, her clients this evening, mother and daughter pair Mary Lynn (Alexis Knapp) and Sadie (Kallani Knapp) seemingly requiring her services, until unwittingly turning the curse back onto Ambrose herself. The mother and daughter flee, promising to return to finish the job, their history with Ambrose later revealed. For every bit of promise the opening has, it is hampered by a lack of explanation and exaggerated performances, making the film's tone questionable at best.

The feature jumps forward three months to Elly (Sarah Grey), with no context connecting her with the opening scene. Elly is a nurse, returning home to deal with her late, estranged mother's estate, after abandoning her years prior. The film barely touches on the issues that plagued her mother which led to her eventual suicide, this absence of substantial backstory being one of the film's chief detractions.

The film is capable of making a disturbingly dark ambiance, as Elly explores her childhood home, haunted by unresolved trauma, though it is not as oppressive as say, The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh, another feature that touched upon familial issues. That said, the musical score assists in enhancing the atmosphere.

However, that same score comes back to haunt the potential this film has with the constant stereotypical jump scare track - the film just cannot go a few minutes without employing one. Furthermore, The Accursed overuses its nightmare sequences, and if Jaws 4 taught us anything, a movie *that* reliant on what is otherwise fake scares, has little else up its sleeve.

As a character, Elly is severely underbaked. She has an aversion to technology (she almost never uses her mobile phone), loves record players and goes jogging - outside of this (a lot of which is used to simply make the plot work), she is very hollow.

Elly is later contacted by Alma (Mena Surval), a caregiver to Ms. Ambrose, who requires a nurse to provide medical assistance to the now bed-ridden patient for the weekend. In an attempt to get away from her childhood home, Elly accepts the job, her initial introduction to Alma revealing her to be a strange, passive-aggressive character, who is only too eager to leave.

Elly, of course, never questions this, given little in the way of independent character motivation. With this in mind, her role as a nurse is severely challenged, with the film hardly referencing this. Alongside coming off as disingenuous, never does she check the medical equipment, clean her patient's skin lesions, or offer her a bed bath - any one of these may have made her aware that not everything is as it seems with Ms. Ambrose.

Though Elly is isolated in the Ambrose estate, surrounded by woodland, the sense of threat is dispelled by the continuous contact with her neighbor, Mary Lynn, and best friend, Beth (Sarah Dumont). Speaking of, despite Elly's bestie being a stand-out character, with her fun attitude and willingness to bluntly say what audiences may feel, she represents the film's tonal inconsistency. In that sense, the film just can't take a trick, can it? Everything the film does well only hampers it in another way.

As Elly continues to feel more uneasy about her stay, she realises her family may be more connected to Ambrose than she first imagined. The inclusion of themes like witchcraft, possession, guilt and mental illness should make for an interesting horror experience, if used right - the film however, hardly uses them at all. This is compounded further by the film's illogical cuts. Example, we go from Elly reeling with disgust as Ms. Ambrose vomits, to Elly outside enjoying the sunshine ~ I mean, huh? Did she clean up the mess? Did her patient choke on the bile spewing out of her? Cuts like these frequently occur, which harm the pacing and narrative structure.

When used sparingly, the prosthetic, make-up and special effects in the film do add to the atmosphere. That said, there are only so many times you can watch demon hands erupting from a person's mouth (as depicted in the trailer), before the initially impressive footage becomes monotonous and stale, same for the satanically black eyeballs representing possession, and the sound of an over-burdening mother screeching her daughter's name. The repetitiveness of these sequences leaves the film feeling like a three-trick pony, and little more.

Additionally, the film flirts with the idea that Ambrose might actually be in worse condition than originally described - whilst having her connected to a working heart rate monitor that says otherwise - half-baked ideas like these only harm what is already a haphazard experience.

The Accursed is a film that does show promise, and nothing could be truer of this than the final sequence, which is too good of an ending for something so unsatisfying. In the end, this is a cliched and contrived experience, that lacks the confidence or originality to really use any of its characters or themes effectively.

The Accursed is low budget so don't expect a great movie. Not that you can't have great low budget movies but this is just not one of them. It just shows it's low budget. Some creepy scenes were not bad though, with some nice CGI's considering the budget but there are more mediocre scenes than good ones. As for the acting well it fits the budget again. Some of the actors are just not good, others can definitely do better as they showed that before. The story is one we all saw before, certainly if you're into possession horror movies. So it's been done before and better, unfortunately... It is watchable though, just don't get your hopes too high.

Title for an incoherently edited and very foggishly plotted movie about a witch and another witch and further more witches with eyes white out every 2nd time theyre displayed on the screen...

its also a friendly movie about friends youre maybe not supposed to believe in, made in a way so youre blinded by the beauty of the pool of mostly and with a few exceptions from the tv screen movie production. So if you wanna spend your lifetime on nonsense over the fence chitty chatting about the cursed woman or women in the bottom of the culdesac deep in the dark woods then go, for real worry seekers its a sinking ship full of moderated content so dive in and swim as a shark to avoid the sucking maelstroem dragging you down into nothingness.

Had there just been some blood and gore in there, thinks the grumpy old man, it might have been worth this written review...

Presumably writers/directors Elizabeta Vidovic and Kathryn Michelle are big horror fans and have watched many, many horror films as they have managed to shoehorn a LOT of oft repeated cliches into theirs; particularly the camera work. The only things they haven't included are scares and moments of tension.

It's not really a question of "Don't watch it" - it's average not bad - just more a case of watch the hundreds of much better horror films before you bother.

Oh, and if I was cynical, I would suggest that the positive reviews might have something to do with the all female writers, directors and cast rather than the actual film.

Strong intro but once the intro credits begin is when the awkwardness starts. First thing to notice is the production. Really good production sets the tone for high hopes but as the director and writer struggles to keep the viewer in track things escalate with out a understanding why... eventually chaos ensues and you can feel the movie is coming to a close but your still wondering how everything transpired. The actors were good but major fail on the writing and directing. Both me and my gf Simultaneously "ehhh" at the closing credits. One thing that was also weird was only 2 male actors. First actor shows up 1 hr in for a couple minutes. 2nd male actor makes a 3 min appearance. To summarize the movie made me question was it just me or was it really that bad?

I expected less and was surprised that this was as good as it was. The acting from the leads was solid and convincing, with good enough direction. Clean camera shots with mostly still frames instead of cheap shaky-cam junk. It was a bit dark at times, but with the clean shots it was effective. Story was not riveting, but not terrible and unfolds ok. A couple of the supporting characters were a bit stiff compared to the leads and stood out as such but still passable. Effects were pretty good, and although not a frightening or highly intense movie, still had a couple of notable gritty moments that invoked a reaction. Couple of gaps in the script, but not enough to annoy. Music and sound score fit good as well. Overall, better than most lower budget titles I've seen this year. Curious to see if Blood Red Films can repeat the formula going forward.

This movie starts out pretty strong and grabs your attention from the first few minutes! It's pretty spooky at times and gets your adrenaline pumping. The story hasn't been done before as another reviewer suggested. It's certainly not a new genre but it does have an original story that keeps you entertained. It was fun to watch and I think the acting was fairly good. The main character was likable and the friend wasn't one of those annoying side characters you see so much of in other movies that you hope get killed off.. she was actually likable as well. The movie could have been a bit longer to build more substance but other than that it was a good spooky movie.