Scream team reuniting for new film

The team behind Scream, director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson, are reuniting for a new horror film called Cursed.

The studio involved, Dimension Films, hopes Cursed will do for the werewolf what Scream did for the slasher film genre.

Set in Los Angeles, it is being billed as “a modern, hip twist on the classic werewolf tale” and is due to be released next August.

Dimension co-chairman Bob Weinstein says he’s been trying for years to do another horror project with Williamson and Craven.

He says: “We’d talked about genres like ghost movies, serial killer films, and when I said I always loved werewolf movies, Kevin said, ‘We’ll have something for you soon.’

“He 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.”

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