Even as a longtime admirer of Wes Craven’s films, I stayed away from his werewolf movie “Cursed” when it hit theaters in 2005.

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“Cursed” seemed like the appropriate title for a movie that was delayed for two years, reshot and rewritten multiple times, with entire performances cut out of the finished product. The reviews (with an abysmal 16 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes) further encouraged me to stay away, and I wasn’t the only one, since the movie was a box office failure and quickly gained a reputation as a massive flop.

So I was surprised when I finally got around to watching “Cursed” nearly a decade later to find an entertaining, campy werewolf mov

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