Film Review – The Accursed

In early 2021, director Kevin Lewis was handed a B-movie gift in “Willy’s Wonderland.” The project was bizarre, focusing on a janitor forced to battle haunted animatronics inside a family restaurant, using what he can to survive the night. It was horror for the Chuck E. Cheese generation, and the endeavor had an ace up its sleeve with the casting of Nicolas Cage as the man against the machines. “Willy’s Wonderland” was no triumph of filmmaking, barely hanging on as silly, violent entertainment, but Lewis found ways to keep it compelling, maintaining pace and energy, and there was always Cage to keep the effort suitably crazed. Lewis is back with “The Accursed,” but there’s no Cage, no demonic animatronics, and no wild bottom-shelf vibe. There’s just a screenplay by Rob Kennedy that goes where many low-budget offerings have gone before, and the helmer is no help, keeping this exceedingly dull tale of trauma and dark magic crawling along, showing surprisingly little interest in thrilling viewers for the Halloween season. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com