Director: Wes Craven
Year: 2005
Country: Germany/USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Werewolf
Plot:
After surviving a serious car accident, a woman and her brother find themselves undergoing a strange change that leads them to believe they've become werewolves and begin hunting down the one who turned them into the creatures before they succumb to the confines of the lycanthropic curse.
Review:
This one was quite the enjoyable and underrated werewolf effort. What really works for this one is the rather well-down build-up here of the discovery of their powers and condition, affecting each one differently. Allowing her to do better at her job by standing up for herself and tell off her co-workers is a part of this, while the behavior changes are more than enough to give an idea of the change. That comes even further into play when he gets a chance to prove himself a lot more notably with the change in confidence and the change to utilize his enhanced skill-set against his classmates that this one really gets a lot to like about this setup.
That's what allows the action here to get the really enjoyable parts from this as these are quite fun all starting with the initial car crash here. The violence of the impact and then rolling down the hill, the race to free the trapped driver, and the attack which gets them involved is quite fun and really has a lot going for it as it sets the stage for the later attacks here. The parking garage encounter is certainly fun with a great gimmick of trying to get to safety with the creature trashing car alarms during the stalking as it gets pretty suspenseful at times, and a later scene at the house trying to escape the now-infected dog makes for some decent times here.
Still, the film is centered around two big action scenes here as the first one is the big confrontation at the nightclub opening which serves as a fine culmination of the different series of action here with the chilling House of Mirrors stalking, the multitude of brawling in the different rooms against both the human and werewolf forms before getting a great conclusion to it all, and finally, the ending brawl here which gets them the chance to really let loose and really force along some great parts taking advantage of their powers which gets quite fun with the flying around and brutality exhibited quite nicely overall here. As well with the great practical werewolf look, these here are the positives to make this good enough to overcome the few flaws.
These are mostly centered around the film's rather conflicting werewolf here, which is distracting not only with the behavior changes to suit the scenes themselves, going from toying with hated prey to viciously taking out the insignificant victims, and there's a lot to said for the CGI wolf scenes here utilized for scenes that shouldn't be in the first place. The other issue here is the tameness of the whole affair, really in terms of the kills here which seems like they're far more brutal than what's shown here as this one censors itself way too much. Otherwise, this one was a lot of fun.
Overview: ***.5/5
While it does have some detrimental issues present that do bring this one down, this one keeps somewhat enjoyable times that it does become watchable. This one is really for the most discerning werewolf fanatic for the most part, while the ones who can't get past those issues that are present here should easily advised to heed caution.
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