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Post by someoldguy on Oct 19, 2019 8:01:21 GMT -5
No, I have not seen Eyes of the Werewolf nor do I intend to even if it should turn up in some venue. But this review of it is quite entertaining. Warning: it is full of spoilers. But so what? |
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 19, 2019 10:11:24 GMT -5
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaWH__DGHgETotally spoof and definitely weird. I gave up after 15 minutes when I could no longer suppress the urge to go watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail. But the comments are worth clicking on the above link. |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 22, 2019 12:53:17 GMT -5
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaWH__DGHgETotally spoof and definitely weird. I gave up after 15 minutes when I could no longer suppress the urge to go watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail. But the comments are worth clicking on the above link.
What in the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter hell? 
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 22, 2019 18:08:26 GMT -5
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaWH__DGHgETotally spoof and definitely weird. I gave up after 15 minutes when I could no longer suppress the urge to go watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail. But the comments are worth clicking on the above link.
What in the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter hell?
Ya got me! I was expecting (hoping for) something like Grindhouse (terrific if you are in the mood for that kind of thing). But this was too dumb and self conscious for me. |
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 22, 2019 18:09:44 GMT -5
Here is a list someone made on IMDb, ranking the three dozen werewolf movies they had seen from best (Dog Soldiers BTW) to worst. I found the rankings of the Howling movies interesting. The original is at number 9. Howling V, which we previously discussed as being not half bad, makes it to number 15. Here is the ranking of the rest of the Howling franchise. 22 Reborn 23 VI 32 IV 33 II 34 III 36 New Moon Rising In short, from not so great to really sucks with four of the five worst werewolf movies this person ever saw being Howling sequels. Can’t tell the movie by its title.
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 25, 2019 20:04:28 GMT -5
Wolf Guy: Enraged Lycanthrope
Sonny Chiba plays the alleged werewolf - alleged because there are no hairy creatures in this movie, just Sonny doing his less than impressive martial arts thing. (Give me Bruce Lee or even Chuck Norris for that kind of stuff.) Sonny has some superhuman abilities during the full moon is all.
The plot is rather lurid and pulpy throughout. What kept me going in this movie was the invisible spirit tiger, who rips a guy to shreds in the first 2 minutes. I wanted to know what that was about. That and the sex scenes kept my interest.
I knew not to expect all that much when just after the tiger scene and before the credits, Sonny thinks "Tonight smells like another bloody incident perpetrated by humanity". I hope that worked better in the original Japanese.
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Post by someoldguy on Nov 10, 2019 17:45:59 GMT -5
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll Lots of strange elements in the plot of this one. Apparently, Mr. Hyde was the werewolf side of Dr. Jekyll. And even though Jekyll got himself into this fix by a potion he created (otherwise the hidden lab they discover makes no sense), the condition is hereditary and passed on to his daughter. And how do you kill a werewolf? A wooden stake through the heart, of course. The ending is reminiscent of She-Wolf of London 1946. Sort of. I will say no more on that. The she-wolf makeup is ludicrous. It looks like something I once woke up in bed with after a night of serious drinking. I will say that the two nightmare sequences are nicely done. Otherwise, blech. |
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Post by someoldguy on Nov 24, 2019 13:52:47 GMT -5
Grandma Werewolf
As silly as it sounds, but intentionally so. Purposefully dumb, with oddball characters including the were-woman’s dysfunctional family, incompetent MiB types, a way over the top werewolf hunter and other horror movie memes getting lampooned. Not at all scary and clearly not intended to be. It is a stupid film but it somehow keeps you watching to see what wacky thing is going to happen next. The dialog and acting are hilarious and the werewolf look is a scream. Unlike the other dumb movies I posted above, this one is recommended if you like deliberately self-consciously bad movies.
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Post by ArcLight on Nov 24, 2019 14:52:44 GMT -5
Grandma Werewolf As silly as it sounds, but intentionally so. Purposefully dumb, with oddball characters including the were-woman’s dysfunctional family, incompetent MiB types, a way over the top werewolf hunter and other horror movie memes getting lampooned. Not at all scary and clearly not intended to be. It is a stupid film but it somehow keeps you watching to see what wacky thing is going to happen next. The dialog and acting are hilarious and the werewolf look is a scream. Unlike the other dumb movies I posted above, this one is recommended if you like deliberately self-consciously bad movies. I ran across that listing last night. I'll have to check it out one of these days. |
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Post by someoldguy on Nov 24, 2019 20:14:13 GMT -5
Night of the Wererooster OK, not a werewolf but a similar idea. A horror comedy that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. It has a slow start where you think it might be trying to be serious. (With that title?) A lot of the humor is funny lines and references delivered straight faced, sometimes almost Airplane style (but not as funny). What the movie does have is a good amount of gore, which is completely absent from Werewolf Grandma. As far as plot, you can see what direction it is going from the beginning. Where it ends up is both absurd and perfectly logical. Dialog is usually ridiculous as per design. Acting sucks to the point of being annoying. The comedy includes KFC jokes, of course. The Wererooster hunter is named Colonel Sanders. Someone loses his 'nuggets' to the titular creature. More in that vein. The death of the clown scene is genuinely funny.
The most annoying of the characters gets it first and in a really unique way. Which is good for some humorous dialog.
Sadly one never gets to see the Wererooster himself. Just a tiny glimpse and feathers here and there. Only for the aficionado of bad movies of the self-referential horror comedy type. With patience. |
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Post by someoldguy on Nov 29, 2019 21:17:49 GMT -5
DarkWolf 2003
I remember seeing this on DVD at someone else’s house a couple of years ago. Looking at a list of werewolf movies brought it back to mind. I am going by memory but thankfully that facility is still an effective part of my toolbox.
A reasonably good idea - werewolf needs to mate with another (female) werewolf to preserve the race (species?). If he succeeds, werewolves will take over the world. If he fails, werewolves go extinct and the world is saved. Complication: she does not know she is a werewolf. Sadly, the movie fails to fulfill the potential. Fails big time, in fact.
Other than nudity and blood, quite a bit of each, nothing about the film is any good. The plot development, acting, dialog, camera work all suck. The creature look is just stupid, like maybe a bargain basement ape costume. And the transformation scene is simply atrocious. It looks like CGI from the earliest days of SciFi channel movies. And that is bad! Even the violence and bloodshed somehow miss having the visceral impact they should.
Back in the day, with sufficient chemical assistance of the inhaled variety shared with some simpatico friends, I might have found this movie really funny. But those days are long gone and all I can say is that without such help DarkWolf is just awful. Well, maybe except for the nudity.
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Le Loup-Garou Qui Rit
