# The Cursed (2021)

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**Runtime**: 111 min
**Genres**: Horror, Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: Sean Ellis
**Written by**: Sean Ellis
**Starring**: Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxane Duran, Nigel Betts, Stuart Bowman

> *Innocence will fall prey.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Autumn 1888. A forest ax splits bark; resin glows like wet amber.

A railroad baron’s rifle ends six lives, leaves a girl mute in the mud. Her fingertips carve letters the sheriff can’t read.

A pathologist, black bag still swinging, calls the bark-cutting marks ritual.

**Mood tags**: dread, slow-burn

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