: It is fatally lacking in cool-looking werewolves. Transformation scenes are the money shots in werewolf movies.::
Spoiled much, Nabin? You're mad at the movie for not being the cool monsters, man! movie you thought it was in your head, but being about a family where its financially-emasculated patriarch finds himself transforming into...something (my best friend and I saw it last night, and she said they looked and behaved more like primates than wolves), while fighting his urges to be a pure predator and destroy everything he loves.
I was less terrified at him turning into something dangerously unrecognizable to his family than by that he would end up betraying everything he claimed throughout the movie to care about and try to destroy his wife and daughter. Unlike Jack Torrance in Kubrick's extremely-overrated THE SHINING, which I think this movie more closely resembles, it's clear from his struggle with his baser nature that Blake isn't bullshitting when he talks about how much he loves his family. We see it every time he seems about to rend them limb from limb, but stops to instead rescue them from the other not-really-a-werewolf or stops himself because he remembers he loves these people. (Jack Nicholson's Jack Torrance never acted like he loved his wife or son—he was just marking time until he could go full-goose psycho and start axe-murdering them while slinging Freddy Krueger-style puns around.)
That's ultimately why, despite him no more looking like a wolf than my cat does, my friend and I ultimately liked this movie.
::It’s the kind of thing I need to right about now::
Do it then, s*w*a*c*! Maybe not in this continuity because turning into a werewolf here is permanent and there's no going back to being human, but it might work in a universe where she can transform back and forth.
I half-expected that as well as the climax where she as a werewolf fights her werewolf husband, but that would leave Ginger without any family.
Opening show on opening day in the relatively recently renovated local theater and between the slow and largely uneventful plot and their new Lay-Z-Boy style plump Premium seating, I had to fight to stay awake.
Did anyone else feel like they decided to go practical for the make up (yay) then decided to save money on hair plugs for the skin suits, ended up with werewolves suffering alopecia?
It wants to be Cronenberg’s The Fly so bad but the script is terrible. Riddled with cliches, underdeveloped themes, and lousy dialogue.
I liked the movie more than you did, but yeah—I can see where somebody on that production wanted to do Cronenberg's THE FLY.
: It is fatally lacking in cool-looking werewolves. Transformation scenes are the money shots in werewolf movies.::
Spoiled much, Nabin? You're mad at the movie for not being the cool monsters, man! movie you thought it was in your head, but being about a family where its financially-emasculated patriarch finds himself transforming into...something (my best friend and I saw it last night, and she said they looked and behaved more like primates than wolves), while fighting his urges to be a pure predator and destroy everything he loves.
I was less terrified at him turning into something dangerously unrecognizable to his family than by that he would end up betraying everything he claimed throughout the movie to care about and try to destroy his wife and daughter. Unlike Jack Torrance in Kubrick's extremely-overrated THE SHINING, which I think this movie more closely resembles, it's clear from his struggle with his baser nature that Blake isn't bullshitting when he talks about how much he loves his family. We see it every time he seems about to rend them limb from limb, but stops to instead rescue them from the other not-really-a-werewolf or stops himself because he remembers he loves these people. (Jack Nicholson's Jack Torrance never acted like he loved his wife or son—he was just marking time until he could go full-goose psycho and start axe-murdering them while slinging Freddy Krueger-style puns around.)
That's ultimately why, despite him no more looking like a wolf than my cat does, my friend and I ultimately liked this movie.
::It’s the kind of thing I need to right about now::
You need to *what*?
I would spend the whole movie wishing Julia Garner would turn into a werewolf instead. Maybe there will be a sequel, WO(lf)MAN.
Do it then, s*w*a*c*! Maybe not in this continuity because turning into a werewolf here is permanent and there's no going back to being human, but it might work in a universe where she can transform back and forth.
I half-expected that as well as the climax where she as a werewolf fights her werewolf husband, but that would leave Ginger without any family.
And then Ginger ... snaps.
Oh, that's GOOD, s*w*a*c*!
Well-played, Sir—well-played indeed. 👏
When I heard what the daughter's name was, I assumed it was some sort of tribute. Sadly, it's a tribute to a much better film.
Yes—but WOLF MAN is...okay, and about what I expected from Blumhouse.
If I want "elevated horror", I have better luck with A24 or Neon.
Why is it so hard to make a decent Werewolf movie?
Nightbitch looks promising, at least as a werewolf adjacent project.
Watched it last night. That void has yet to be filled.
I guess that may be close enough.
Canada's Wolf Cop is a fun one. There's also a sequel, Another Wolf Cop which may have been unnecessary.
Opening show on opening day in the relatively recently renovated local theater and between the slow and largely uneventful plot and their new Lay-Z-Boy style plump Premium seating, I had to fight to stay awake.
Did anyone else feel like they decided to go practical for the make up (yay) then decided to save money on hair plugs for the skin suits, ended up with werewolves suffering alopecia?