The Cursed: Blu-ray, DVD release of werewolf movie scheduled for May

Writer/director Sean Ellis‘s 1800s-set werewolf horror film Eight for Silver was recently given a theatrical release under the terribly generic title The Cursed, and going generic didn’t help it out much. In two weeks, The Cursed has earned less than $4 million at the box office. Maybe it will do better on home video, where it will be going in just a couple months. Amazon is accepting pre-orders for Blu-ray and DVD copies at THIS LINK and has a street date of May 10th listed.

It’s a shame The Cursed is getting overlooked in theatres, because our own Chris Bumbray thought it was “an enjoyable horror thriller” He gave it a 7/10 review you can read HERE.

Here’s the synopsis for The Cursed, according to Wikipedia:

In the late nineteenth century, brutal land baron Seamus Laurent slaughters a Roma clan, unleashing a curse on his family and village. In the days that follow, the townspeople are plagued by nightmares, Seamus’s son Edward goes missing, and a boy is found murdered. The locals suspect a wild animal, but visiting pathologist John McBride warns of a more sinister presence lurking in the woods.

Boyd Holbrook (The Predator), Kelly Reilly (Eden Lake), Alistair Petrie (Victor Frankenstein), Roxane Duran (The Way to Happiness), and Áine Rose Daly (the Amazon series Hanna) star.

Speaking with Variety, Ellis said The Cursed was “inspired by a love for horror classics”:

I wanted to go back to a genre piece. I’m a big fan of horror films. Films like Alien and The Thing had a big influence on me. … I felt it needed to be a period film – they’re more cinematic. When you do a period piece you’re creating a world. I think cinema is about visiting other worlds.”

Ellis also revealed that his film features “a kind of werewolf that audiences haven’t seen before” because

I kind of love the werewolf mythology but I hadn’t loved where it had gone. It felt like zombies had been updated and we could do many different things with that. There was just this cliché of what the werewolf was.”

In bringing the monsters to the screen, the filmmaker found “old school special effects and animatronics more powerful than CGI” and tried to do as much of the creature action in camera as possible.

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