Michael Ledo
The US title, "Devil Incarnate" and DVD cover are misleading. The UK title is "Cursed" which is keeping to the film. The movie opens with narration during the credits. A curse is placed on a family line. They would be infertile unless they sacrificed or "cut out a child." We then see a bunch of hand held camera shots along with normal filming. Trevor (Rod Luzzi) and Holly (Graci Carli) are newlyweds traveling in Florida filming their honeymoon. Through a series of circumstances Holly meets a woman fortune teller (Barbara Van Fleet) that sends her screaming and then discovers she is pregnant. They move into his parent's house, which they gave them as a gift.Soon weird things happen and Holly's behavior becomes erratic. Marissa, (Emily Rogers) is Trevor's highs school lesbian semi-goth sister who has a thing for Holly as well as a snoop who investigates her past.The film offers nothing new and exciting to the evil baby films. The acting was on par for a "B" horror film. It had potential, but didn't capitalize on it. No special effect scenes. Nothing that seems supernatural. Let's keep it in budget.A so-so rental for the Cassadaga crowd.Parental Guide: F-bomb. One sex scene. Near shower nudity.
Neil Welch
A newlywed couple inadvertently reactivate a dormant curse. Pregnancy, lesbianism, and skyping ensue, with none of them being remotely as much fun as they sound. And I'm fully aware of how much fun skyping sounds.Shown on the Horror Channel as "Cursed", the identity crisis from which this film suffers becomes clear when you try to find it on IMDb under that name. Nope. Googling the synopsis details from the on-screen TV guide offers up "The Devil Incarnate", so enter that in IMDb and ta-daah! Success! But wait a minute - what has appeared on screen is a film called "Copiii: The 1st Entry." Yes, that's right, 3 "I"s in "Copiii." And what does it mean? It conveys nothing. Consider the title/s and you get the measure of the film.Grown from the same seeds as Rosemary's Baby (which had clearly been left in the greenhouse so long they had forgotten how to germinate), this effort is a) boring, b) another colour movie which has been desaturated to the point where it is effectively monochrome, c) drab and d) tedious. It is in focus, and the sound is adequate, and that's it as far as the positives are concerned.But take it from me, you have better things to do with 90 minutes.
Leofwine_draca
CURSED is yet another derivative found footage movie, made cheaply enough and poorly enough written for the supposed scares to be barely distinguishable. This one's a familiar tale about a pregnant woman who may or may not be carrying the devil's child, but no viewer is going to care about what happens because this is a story that plays out in the most ordinary way imaginable.Half of the film involves a bickering couple driving around together, while the other half involves sub-plots that go nowhere, like the communication with the girl via the Internet. The acting is barely acceptable as well, with supporting players like the actress playing the fortune teller giving slightly cheesy performances. But it's the overdone theatrics and the almost entire lack of genuine creepiness or indeed horror that helps to sink this one entirely.
Liam Blackburn
This is a hybrid found-footage film that pulls through on the creepiness factor. The director has a unique style that I haven't seen before. If I have to describe it, I would say it's like looking into a shimmering reflective-pool that gets shaken and disturbed every so often. The husband's acting was bothering me at first, but he slowly pulls it together, the lesbian daughter is cute and she is very convincing. Her skype friend is also really cute and she is genuinely hilarious. Her facial expressions are so good. The movie slowly builds as we get more and more information about the troubled past of the pregnant wife Holly. It falls short in the end, the outcome is too quick and jumbled, almost could've been an effective splattering of pure wickedness and horror.....
AD
