Post by someoldguy on Feb 4, 2020 17:08:01 GMT -5
Not the worst werewolf movie ever made. The combination of devil worship and a werewolf curse was an interesting twist. Otherwise just so so.
The good points.
Camera work and music were well done. The sets were not bad and managed to look more impressive than they really were, taking a page from Hammer Films. The body count was fairly high, somewhere around a dozen total. The overall idea and plot are pretty good, even if execution may have been flawed.
Less than good points.
The werewolf look was old school, with appearance and transformations in the manner of the old Universal Larry Talbot type. OK but not terribly well done. I Was a Teenage Werewolf, a low budget effort from two decades earlier, did better. BTW the hairy guy really is hairy in real life as witnessed by the several times he takes his shirt off. Dialog was passable if not great. Slow moving, there being no werewolf action until almost an hour in.
The bad points.
Acting was mainly conspicuous in its absence, with few brief exceptions. For the most part what acting took place was tired and hackneyed stuff. FX other than the creature were poor. The full moon in the fake sky looked suspiciously like the lamp seen in the hallway from time to time. Despite the many deaths, there is not very much gore at all.
The good points.
Camera work and music were well done. The sets were not bad and managed to look more impressive than they really were, taking a page from Hammer Films. The body count was fairly high, somewhere around a dozen total. The overall idea and plot are pretty good, even if execution may have been flawed.
Less than good points.
The werewolf look was old school, with appearance and transformations in the manner of the old Universal Larry Talbot type. OK but not terribly well done. I Was a Teenage Werewolf, a low budget effort from two decades earlier, did better. BTW the hairy guy really is hairy in real life as witnessed by the several times he takes his shirt off. Dialog was passable if not great. Slow moving, there being no werewolf action until almost an hour in.
The bad points.
Acting was mainly conspicuous in its absence, with few brief exceptions. For the most part what acting took place was tired and hackneyed stuff. FX other than the creature were poor. The full moon in the fake sky looked suspiciously like the lamp seen in the hallway from time to time. Despite the many deaths, there is not very much gore at all.
Then there are the plot and continuity problems.
Some examples
When the main character digs up his father's corpse to see if his index finger is longer than his middle finger, he is immediately convinced his father was a werewolf. Sure, everybody knows that. At the end of that scene, he is attacked by a wolf. Since the condition is supposedly hereditary and reinforced by a satanic ritual, does he really need to be bitten by a wolf? And of course in the morning there are no wounds, as in the 1941 Wolf Man. Also, despite having dug up and filled in a grave, and struggles to climb out not to mention wrestling in the dirt with a wolf and being bitten, his white shirt is spotless and unwrinkled. When he turns into a werewolf the first time, he gets blood on his shirt from the first two kills. He must have learned to be more careful because the next time when he racked up eight kills, his shirt is again unmarked.
On his second night as a werewolf, the first three people killed knew that the werewolf guy, who was living in the house with them, was going to transform and that he had killed some people the night before, yet take no precautions and are surprised when attacked.
When the main character digs up his father's corpse to see if his index finger is longer than his middle finger, he is immediately convinced his father was a werewolf. Sure, everybody knows that. At the end of that scene, he is attacked by a wolf. Since the condition is supposedly hereditary and reinforced by a satanic ritual, does he really need to be bitten by a wolf? And of course in the morning there are no wounds, as in the 1941 Wolf Man. Also, despite having dug up and filled in a grave, and struggles to climb out not to mention wrestling in the dirt with a wolf and being bitten, his white shirt is spotless and unwrinkled. When he turns into a werewolf the first time, he gets blood on his shirt from the first two kills. He must have learned to be more careful because the next time when he racked up eight kills, his shirt is again unmarked.
On his second night as a werewolf, the first three people killed knew that the werewolf guy, who was living in the house with them, was going to transform and that he had killed some people the night before, yet take no precautions and are surprised when attacked.
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