Curse of the Wolf

Synopsis: A young woman flees her pack of werewolves to have a normal life. By using chemicals she is able to suppress her “change”. Unfortunately for her, and the new friends that she makes, her pack is unwilling to let her go. They pursue her, eventually kidnapping her new boyfriend to use as bait to force her to return to them. She and her other new friends are forced to rescue him. Do they succeed? Will they all make it thru?

The Good: Honestly there isn’t a whole lot going for this film. The cast is very athletic and handles the stunts and fight choreography pretty well. Though poor lighting and terrible editing ruin even this.

The Bad: Doing a werewolf film with a budget is difficult enough, and most of those studio films actually fail. So it was very ambitious to attempt to do a werewolf film on a limited budget, not to mention one that would require multiple makeup effects for the characters. Well I would like to say that they gave it a good effort and failed, but they just failed. The makeup effects are just awful. The werewolves are basically the actors in bad Halloween masks with gloves on their hands. Every seem is obvious because they make very little effort to use body makeup to blend the appliances to the actor’s skin. Speaking of the actors they also fail to deliver. The acting is wooden, many times appearing that the actors are reading off of queue cards. The worst example of this is the actor that portrays the lead male werewolf. Not only can he not deliver his lines, but also he is way over the top. This destroys any tension that could have been created by the story. The technical aspects of the film also leave a lot to be desired. The sound is pretty consistent throughout the film, but the lighting is at times very bad. This makes it difficult to watch the film, with the viewer at times looking at a black screen with vague shapes moving around on it.

The Score: .5 out of 4

I’m a big fan of werewolf movies and I really wanted to like this. Unfortunately this movie doesn’t deliver. I would recommend that you avoid this film at all costs.

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