Postmodern Bites

Damn and blast it - it's just like the buses. You wait for ages for one to come along and three turn up at the same time. After years of impatient hanging about for another half decent werewolf movie after 1981's angst-ridden classic An American Werewolf in London - 1994's inexcusable Wolf just doesn't count – Hollywood has been truly bitten by the werewolf bug and is to roll out not one but three lupine fantasies for your bloodthirsty pleasure. OK, this year's British effort Dog Soldiers cannily predated all this midnight munching but its murderous wolf packs seem to have only encouraged the thirst for renewed howling at the night sky. Kate Beckinsale was the first and surprising soul to capitalise on Hollywood's new obsession with all things full moon when she signed up to fall in love with one of the hairy creatures in vampire flick Underworld back in April. Then Angelina Jolie – who is frankly scary enough already – announced only yesterday that she's sharpening her teeth in anticipation of a quick human snack in her upcoming movie Bitten. Now the Scream duo, director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson, have got in on the act and targeted their postmodern sensibilities towards this latest craze in their new project Cursed. Already set for an August 2003 release in the States, the ever-so-ironic twosome's take on the hirsute genre impressed Miramax big cheese Harvey Weinstein so much that he greenlit the toothy pic in an instant. "Kevin pitched me the story at lunch, and I was hooked almost from when he told me the title. Like Scream, this is a movie that will be scary first, and then a lot of fun. The new twist element here is special effects, because we're determined to show audiences something they've not seen before." We can tell you're eagerly awaiting the drawn out slaughter of a bunch of nubile young things studded with a smattering of self-reflexive generic jokes already…