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Post by horrorfun on Jan 26, 2011 23:02:09 GMT -5
Hello all
I enjoyed the site so decided to join. I was wondering if someone could tell me if "splintered" was a werewolf movie or not- I could not really tell.
If it was it was another bad one which seems to be the trend with new werewolf movies. The latest I have seen have ranked as some of the worst of all time.
Red Werewolf Hunter: I thought it was awful the werewolves looked like gargoyles. The villain Gabriel looked like a 1920's Hobo.
Howling 7 was just the worst thing I ever saw. Number 1 the main character did not need a "love interest" and certainly not a just down right ugly woman who the thought of coming home to makes you want to get killed by a werewolf.
FYI many will disagree with me on some things: I hated An American Werewolf in London and Werewolf Hunter.
I love Dog Soldiers and the Ginger Snaps Trilogy, the Original Howling, Silver Bullet, and The Beast Must Die.
The one thing that really gets me mad when it comes to werewolf movies is when regular bullets can kill a werewolf. Ginger Snaps gets a pass because it was just so good but I hate it when movies go this route.
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Post by keywolf on Jan 27, 2011 5:04:22 GMT -5
SPOILER for Splintered, should you want to watch it for some mad reason
I mainly watched it cos it looked like a werewolf movie. It's not. I think you're supposed to think that the villain is a werewolf, and it turns out that he isn't. Lousy twist huh?
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Post by Marcus on Jan 27, 2011 9:15:17 GMT -5
For me, whether or not a werewolf needs silver to kill it, greatly depends on the setting for the story.
For example, in Dog Soldiers, it's a must. Otherwise it'd be such a very short film with much less threat to the soldiers, so making them vulnerable to only silver and fire works very well.
But, having the werewolf in Ginger Snaps vulnerable to normal damage works. The mythos behind the werewolf in that setting makes sense for it not to have supernatural abilities/protections.
For me, the whole immunity thing comes down to whether the setting has the werewolves as supernatural curses, in which case yes, they should only be vulnerable to silver/fire. But if the setting is more medical, genetic, mutation style, than no, they should be vulnerable to normal damage (silver could still be a poison to them, and they may have excellerated healing which means a non-instant death blow, but one that would have been mortal in say 3 mins would instead heal before it killed them would be fine).
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Post by horrorfun on Jan 27, 2011 14:15:10 GMT -5
SPOILER for Splintered, should you want to watch it for some mad reason I mainly watched it cos it looked like a werewolf movie. It's not. I think you're supposed to think that the villain is a werewolf, and it turns out that he isn't. Lousy twist huh? It was an awful movie. It is almost like that old Peter Graves movie where he is a great hunter and his old friend and rival shows up to visit. There are all these attacks and you think the friend is a werewolf but it turns out he is a lunatic you uses a vicious ravenous dog to kill people and get them to think there is a werewolf. This is the same lousy twist. The Graves movie would have been decent had it just turned out the friend wasa werewolf bitten on a hunting expedition. |
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Post by Werewolf on Jul 7, 2013 9:33:20 GMT -5
It's showing on the Horror Channel as part of their Howling Mad Season of the movies at the moment. I've got it recorded to take but only because it was shown on the trailer for the Howling Mad Season. When i read the actually synopsis for the movie itself on the Horror Channel it didn't sound like a werewolf movie at all. I'll get round to watching it at some point!
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Post by Werewolf on Jul 29, 2013 16:02:05 GMT -5
Okay then i have now watched this movie and there will be spoilers in this post.
This was shown as part of the howling mad season on the Horror Channel and so naturally i assumed it was a werewolf movie, despite no mention of one in the films blurb.
It's a low budget British made movie that's been fairly obscure. It doesn't even have a basic wiki page. The opening scene showed real promise but turned out to be just a dream that the main girl is having. A later scene shows the main girl strapped to a bed in her underwear seemingly about to be raped by a fairly well designed werewolf, again its a dream she's having after she's been knocked out. It very quickly becomes apparent that the werewolf is a metaphor for the childhood sexual abuse she has suffered at the hands of a very real human monster. This is not a werewolf movie. But if you can get passed that disappointment this is a fairly decent horror movie. Nothing spectacular but not bad. The plot features 5 teenagers heading out to the woods in Wales to investigate whether some sort of wild beast is stalking the area.
Again its not a bad movie but its NOT a werewolf movie. The end creature could be described as a "monster" but as you will see. The monster is also a victim.
The one exciting thing i took away from this, is that the werewolf design was actually quite good. Now i prefer a long snout and this one didn't have that. It was more visually similar to the werewolves in Attack of the Werewolves (as i recall) but it left me thinking that if he can do that a good a job for a creature that appears only briefly in the film. Imagine what Simeon Halligan could do in an actual werewolf movie.
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