Director: Clive Turner
Year: 1995
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Werewolf
Plot:
Arriving in a small desert town, a mysterious stranger becomes involved in a series of brutal murders of the locals and must find the true beast causing the devastation before he becomes the scapegoat for the killings, eventually finding the inhuman beast who’s truly responsible for everything.
Review:
This was one of the most putrid, wretchedly horrible horror movies ever. Among the numerous flaws here is the film's central biggest problem in its dull, agonizingly slow pace that never offers up anything to get excited over. This is a true sequel to parts four and five and attempts to make them a continuous storyline, which is a creative idea, but is shown terribly as a large portion of the film is stock shots of those entries with only about an hour of original footage. This is simply unacceptable because the story is so poor that it must include these horrible country scenes inside a bar with a lack of talented performers trying to sing terrible country music. They served no purpose in the film, were a pain to sit through, and should've been removed from the film to try picking up the pace.
It would have a chance to move up the pace if the human drama were actually interesting. From the tepid and banal romance that drags the middle segment down to the impossible-to-believe segments where the local sheriff has to digest the explanation for what's going on in several different parts, which are featured here, it’s not even possible to care what’s going on. The romance consists of the stranger meeting and talking with the waitress through those constant, endless, non-stop running-time-padding country music segments that are really the worst thing about this whole endeavor. It feels endless before it switches things up and brings about something else. Also, the continuous shots of the priest talking to the sheriff about the past that the sheriff has to take several breathers and three different scenes to let it all sink in were simply awful and irrefutably bad.
That all ends up leading to the other flaw here, in the lack of werewolf action caused by all of these factors featured here. With the creature presented only as a roving, red-filtered camera low to the ground, zipping over the landscape to sneak up on unsuspecting victims in some admittedly creepy scenes, to generate the only positive remarks towards this, that the cinematography is actually quite good. They capture the small-town USA feeling accurately, and the local mountainside, with dense forests and lush foliage, looks suitably spooky, but that's all we get, period. There are no stalking shots, no transformation scenes, not even full-body shots of the creature at all, and for a werewolf movie, there is no werewolf until the last five minutes, with the only time it's even glimpsed is as a cheap, plastic mask for a few fleeting moments at the end. In the end, this is certainly the absolute worst werewolf film ever.
Overview: 0.5/5
I have a hard time finding an audience to recommend this to. The only group I can think of is those who want to collect every horror movie ever made, and who have the most undiscerning of palates, will be able to sit through this. Get it only for a complete collection, but never watch it.
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