Film Details:
Directed by Richard Friedman (Friday the 13th TV series, Baywatch Nights)
Written by Geoffrey Alan Holliday
Starring (well…sort of)
Samaire Armstrong (Not Another Teen Movie, Would I Lie to You?)
Ryan Alosio (Blue Chicago Blues, Repli-Kate)
Kane Hodder (The man who needs no introduction - Jason Voorhees!)
Tippi Hedren (Oh, ye gods….how the mighty have fallen)
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Review: by Don (e-mail your faithful reviewer)
You know... they just don't make good werewolf movies anymore. They do, however, make horrifyingly bad ones. The plot of this film is so convoluted that I never properly understood exactly what was going on. I'll try to lay it out for you though.
Uh... There's this girl. She's apparently a werewolf because she was born like that. Her wolfy tendencies don't come out until late adolescence. I guess. And, apparently, if she isn't guided properly through her first transformation, then her race will die out, or some bullshit. And Tippi Hedren, who worked with Alfred fucking HITCHCOCK, is apparently supposed to help her through this. But then the DarkWolf comes.
The DarkWolf is a big biker guy who is also a werewolf. I guess. He turns into a wolf, in any case. But he's the evil kind, see? Apparently, there's a difference. I wouldn't have known. He's trying to mate with our regular werewolf girl, and if she touches anybody, her scent is then on that person and the DarkWolf tracks them down because he's looking for her. Of course, the tiniest of contact will cause the DarkWolf to home in on the person like a guided missile. Right to 'em. But he can't find her, who smells like her ALL OVER. This whole damn movie is ridiculous.
Okay, the special effects make this movie worth it. No... not like that. They're so ridiculously bad, so mind bogglingly awful, so absolutely stupid... it's the most hysterically entertaining thing I've seen in a long, long time. Seriously. I mean... they used CGI for the transformation scenes... and... I just... I don't even know how to describe it. It looks like they went for a digital replacement, and halfway through rendering the CGI characters, they ran out of money. Or maybe they just lost interest. Or possibly the guy doing the CGI just realized what he was doing and shot himself. I can't tell you why they thought this would be an acceptable effect. The mind boggles.
Anyway, there are some good points to this film. There is nudity, and nudity is always good. One scene involves two girls who are doing a photo shoot made up to look like wolf girls... Oddly, their fake werewolf make-up looks better than any of the actual werewolves.
So, the movie is bad. But it's really bad, so almost worth a look. If you happen to be having a party where a terribly large amount of alcohol will be involved, and you happen to find yourself at the local video store and you happen to be stuck for something to rent, and you happen to see it sitting there...
Look around one more time for something good. Then if you're still stuck for something to rent...
Pick it up and look at the back. Then put it back down and look around one more time...
THEN if you're STILL stuck... rent it.
