You know as forgettable as this film was, I do appreciate that they don't try to make the Wolfman design overly realistic like how most other horror remakes tend to do. Aside from the dated CG, the transformation in the courthouse scene looked pretty neat.
That scene is pretty terrifying thanks to Elfman’s score & even Johnston’s direction. It is darkly funny how oblivious the head doctor is to Lawrence’s transformation until it’s too late
CGI on Hollywood movies is something funny, it was overused throughout the whole 2000s and nowadays people love to crap on it and say how bad it looks, but if we’re being honest most practical effects from movies pre-cgi era look even worse.
I enjoyed this Wolfman. I believe it’s the first film where I met Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro. Who are both really great in the film along with of course Anthony Hopkins.
Also, we can't go without praising Rick Baker's practical work. The look of the Wolfman was a solid update of the classic 1940s design. I liked it, anyway.
It's funny how Hopkins was in this and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Now he needs to be cast in Del Toro's Frankenstein to complete his Universal horror trilogy. He'd be perfect as the blind man.
I agree with your statement @carver Augustus. I know this movie can be corny and bad in some areas, but I really enjoyed the story and it is something I’ll watch every once in a while
The tone thing with Captain America is because it was deliberately calling back to classic 1940's Captain America comics and comic book covers - Johnson was trying to make the movie look as if Jack Kirby himself directed it, basically. He did something similar with The Rocketeer, where he managed to make everyone and everything look as close to Dave Stevens' art as possible (even with the PG changes to the story).
@@fjorgyn7438 true, and a lot of superheros were partially or wholly created by Jewish people. Superman, Spiderman, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, and The Ninja Turtles, all have Jewish creators/co-creators
I loved it precisely because it was a throwback to WW2 Pulp Heroes and Johnson was a very inspired choice for director because he indeed made "The Rocketeer". Nothing wrong with some old school action/adventure about kicking Hitler's butt. The only issues with The First Avenger is that it could've been 15-20 minutes longer to flash out some characters more (especially the Red Skull who was pretty unremarkable as a big bad) and that they tried to play off HYDRA as something that is worse than Hitler and only Cap can stop it, which even if it's an alternate history fantasy movie, it doesn't sit well with me and is a tad disrespectful to all the heroes in real life who had to stop Hitler and his genocidal horrors, I would've kept Red Skull loyal to Hitler so it's an even match civilians/real life heroes vs Hitler with Red Skull vs Cap behind the scenes. Still, Ryan's attempt of dunking on Johnson and trying to play off like TFA is overly patriotic or has odd tones was weak.
I love this remake as much as the original. It's not perfect but it is fun to just sit back & enjoy. My favorite scene is still the escape scene. I just love how the inspector realizes that either his suspicions about Laurence being a werewolf were true or how he was hoping that Laurence wasn't actually a werewolf & just a murder. And the whole scene with everyone in the room realizing that they're in danger but the doctor continues just talking because he's too engrossed in his speech that he doesn't realize until far to late that Laurence isn't delusional but rather an actual werewolf that is going to kill just about everyone in the room
The forbidden three goes as follows. Victor Frankenstein. Wolfman. Dracula untold. These universal remakes are hidden gems in the world of 2010 era movies.
@@peterversionone Yeah. It is definitely odd. He only kills the orderly who was trying to sedate him and the doctor. I guess if the others hadn't busted down the door he may have killed the others but they stayed out of his way, didn't try to antagonize him, and those that were kind of in his way only got some minor injuries before he went out the window
Ya'know, Ryan is usually pretty forgiving of films and super willing to grab onto and expand on any positive quality. So it's kinda weird that he seems to REALLY dislike The Wolfman Remake of all things. I thought this movie was fine. Campy, gorey, cool practical effects.
Agreed. I've not seen it in a while, but yeah. The acting is TOP TIER, the effects and violence are good. The wolf looks underwhelming imo, the ending is mid and the characters are paper thin, but they're supposed to be, it's like a play on screen rather than a feature film.
I don't think it's a coincidence that his issues with Joe Johnson's direction and the story writing/rewrites are the first things he discusses. Ryan is very positive when it comes to passion project type films even if they turn out bad but he's made his distaste for studio interference and directorial vanity leading to botch jobs, and I definitely think that's what's going on here. It doesn't help that even though he's shown support for both faithful but distinct remakes, and reinterpretations, The Wolfman doesn't really seem like it knows which of the two it wants to be, and that unevenness just keeps bringing the issues with Joe Johnson back to front and centre. He doesn't let go of that because the movie won't let him.
It was lambasted on release by talentless hacks who wanted to ride the coattails of James Rolfe and Doug Walker. And, since nobody with a big enough name has stepped up to defend the film, it's easy pickings for a whole new breed of talentless hacks.
@@judgejudyandexecutioner.5223I thought the visual effects looked awful but the practical effects were amazing I loved the look of the wolfman the most. The actors are top tier but they don’t get to be their best. Still I enjoyed it enough, the movie is really interesting to watch and it’s pretty clearly a labor of love to a degree
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You can't entirely blame Joe Johnston for the way the film turned out, since he stepped in as director only about a month before production after the original director left the project. He had basically no prep-time to get to know the source material and make any changes he wanted up front, hence the rewrites during reshoots.
Really glad to hear your angle on this - I absolutely love this remake as it looks beautiful and totally / unashamedly wears its influences & references on its sleeve (not to mention the soundtrack which almost directly apes the score from 1992's 'Bram Stoker's Dracula') and I rate Hugo Weaving's "...pint of bitter, please" speech to be one of the best in any modern, tongue-in-cheek horror.
Personally, I loved this movie. The theatrical cut was a mess, but the unrated DVD version put everything together nicely enough (dirty trick by the studios, but it worked, sort of). I love gothic horror with it's heavy atmosphere and tragic endings. Van Helsing worked that way for me as well. The ending that I would have preferred, hoyever, would have been for Blunt's character to be bitten and carried off into the moonlight. Was it perfect? Of course not, what is? I think that a major issue in today's cinema is the expectation or demand that movies be "realistic" and/or logically consistent. While that can work for some genres, this can end up hurting a more speculative work. Stories of old never had that requirement and yet they have stood the test of time.
I do wonder if Ryan ever heard about the extended cut? It makes a much better film of 'The Wolfman'. Perfect? No. But a decent film that helps with one's desire for gothic horror.
You know, in terms of werewolf/lycanthropy movies that have been released in recent years, one of the best I've seen is one that actually hasn't gotten a major release by the time of this comment (April 2023), the Canadian film My Animal. That's a VERY well-done coming-of-age/lesbian romance/werewolf film that plays on many familiar elements of all the genres mentioned here and does them in a unique enough way to stand out from its peers. Seriously, check that out when it gets released, it's awesome.
@@Duothimir It's just the main girl and her father that really are the werewolves in this. The girl she's attracted to (Amandla Stenberg) isn't a werewolf. And this isn't THAT type romance movie. Like I said, it's got a bit of a Coming Of Age sheen to it.
The sad thing is, this movie has a lot of the pieces to have a solid new adaptation of this story. A number of quality actors in the cast (Sir Anthony Hopkins, Benicio Del Toro, Hugo Weaving, and a pre-breakout Emily Blunt), some terrific and brutal gore effects, and the possibility to update the source material and even improve upon it (because honestly, as much as the original Wolf Man is remembered as one of the classic Universal Monster movies, I'm still up in the air on how well it's held up compared to ones like Dracula and Frankenstein). Yet this is one of those movies where the thing that should tie all these phenomenal pieces together, the writing, unfortunately wasn't there. I think there is enough potential to do a solid new adaptation of this, it's just a bummer that this wasn't it.
I watched through all the classic Universal "wolf" movies last October and I came away loving Werewolf of London way more than Wolf Man. Imo, Talbot gets more interesting in the later Wolf Man movies.
This is a pretty good comment. Watching the movie for the first time right now. It is like how do you make a story about a werewolf so boring while simultaneously having so many more interesting stories mentioned or hinted at without being explored.
Audiences hated it because the characters all acted quiet, and restrained. You know, like actual Victorians. A lot of Americans can't process emotions that aren't screamed in their faces.
I actually really enjoyed this version. The vibe was well done. I saw it more of an homage than a 'remake'. Also I've always felt terrible for the Wolfman due to his inability to escape his tragic fate.
Honestly, the worst part is how it seems like Del Toro and Hugo Weaving are the only ones really trying to act. Anthony Hopkins was just like a tired old man, not what I expected. But I still watch this sometimes, skipping over the hospital treatment scenes
Raw and Wer come to mind. Raw was all around awesome. Wer was just something else, in a good way. And the Wolf of Snow Hollow was enjoyable enough too, if somewhat bipolar what kind of movie it is trying to be.
@@heymistercarter. Ehhh, it was both, they were cannibals, yes, but it was a heredary disease like thing, abit like the moon, or bite or both transforms one to a werewolf, eating raw meat transformed the sisters into raveneous cannibals who struggle to contain the urges and live a relatively normal life, not unlike a werewolf.
Apparently Johnston came in late in production as the previous director dropped out. If you haven’t, watch The Rocketeer. It’s easily Johnston’s best film and nails that classic action serial vibe First Avenger was going for.
I saw this movie in theaters. Halfway through my friend looked over at me and asked if we could leave, and I was so uninterested in what was going on I was just like, “Yeah, that’s fine.” Another friend wanted to see it so I went again, and made it through the second time. Ultimately landed on weird but fine. Loved hearing your thoughts as always. P.S. Your point about Joe Johnston is dead on, and the exact reason I love Pagemaster so much lol.
Dog Soldiers is great, but I feel like if that is the undisputed champion of the genre, then the genre as a whole could really use some work. I like the werewolf concept. Why don't we have more good werewolf movies?
Ngl I find it better than the original. While the original is more melancholic, the remake is just so much more gruesome and brutal, adding more to the tragedy of Talbot. Everytime he wakes up in the morning after a full moon night del Toro acts so well with the work he was given. It's such a good movie. Sure the third act is a bit goofy where it turns into wolf v wolf hollywood cheese but the ending, Emily blunt's acting and the hallucination/nightmare scenes are so good. Sir Anthony was such a good villain in this. One of the few remakes I consider better than the original. Hoping Ryan Gosling's Wolfman would be better. Apparently they're going w a newsreporter werewolf reporting on his own killings vibe, sounds interesting.
I really enjoyed watching the movie back then and from time to time it crossed my mind again. I think what stood out to me was that at that age my main other source of werewolf action was the Underworld series and, as you mention yourself, Van Helsing. It was refreshing to have a more slow paced movie. As I now have a bigger repertoire of comparisons, I like that we got a "classic" werewolf design in that era of film making, one that looks more like the original Wolfman and An American Werewolf in London.
It's unfortunate this film is seen as a failure, it's underrated in my opinion. One of my favorite werewolf films! Love the gore, one of the best live-action werewolves too!
I rarely disagree too much from your reviews, but I thought this film was great. As for Captain America, the movie took place in WW2 and the comic was, at least to some extent, very much pro-USA marketing and I thought he use of that visual elements elevated a rather paint by numbers plot (which stayed VERY true to the comics, moreso than most MCU). As for JP3, I felt of all the sequels it was the only one that was tonally similar to the first
When i watched this last year, i was bewildered. I rather enjoyed it. THIS is the trainwreck id always heard about? The film for which the head of universal said is the "worst film universal has ever made?" The man who greenlit The Cat In The Hat said THIS was worse than anything else they made in 100 years of film making? Why is it so reviled? Its not fantastic, but its not even in the top 50 of universals worst much less The worst like the ceo so claimed
Unpopular opinion: I enjoy this movie. Maybe I'm just an easy mark for werewolf movies, they're probably my favorite of the classic movie monsters, but I still like to throw this one on when I'm in the right mood. The actors all seem to be having fun with what they're given and I do get a kick out of the pure horror aspects. It may not be a great movie, but considering that this was the same era that gave us remakes like 'The Wicker Man' and 'The Hitcher' that completely shit the bed on what they did to their source material, I really don't mind this.
Now that you brought it up I would absolutely love to see you cover the film version of From Hell! @HistoryBuffs did a video a few years ago that nicely covered the historical inaccuracies of the film, but what's especially interesting is how it went about adapting the source material in that the comic followed The Ripper while the film is structured as a typical whodunit where we find out his identity over time.
I think Ryan seemed reluctant to get into that 😂 I would love to see him take it on. I kinda liked that movie in my teen years, but yeah it’s not great but wasn’t expecting Shakespeare
@@LucyLioness100 Exactly why I want to see him cover it! I can definitely say that it had a great sense of style but that's about it. It's enjoyable if you don't bother to think about it.
I always felt that because Del Toro plays Talbot so grim and assholey, the savagery of his werewolf murders never felt very out of character? Like personally, the contrast between the human and the monster is really important in creating empathy for the protagonist in the audience. So if your protag is a dickhead weirdo (like how Del Toro plays it), its harder to empathise imo. Dog Soldiers does kick ass, but I found that its more zombie movie in its execution, and doesn't super deal with the typical themes of traditional werewolf media. My fav is still 100% Ginger Snaps; I think the script is the sharpest werewolf movie out there, it inverts the typical masculine concepts of lycanthropy in a really interesting way, has some neat STI metaphors, the violence is shocking and the practical effects are incredible (although not American Werewolf standard, obvs).
I’m probably one of the five people that like this one. They werewolf design and presentation is the best we’ve gotten in a long time. I think nitpicking the cgi isn’t entirely fair as it looks pretty good for being 13 years old. We still get digital gore in the best horror movies TODAY. Plus the werewolf is a practical effect for the majority of the runtime. That’s all I can really defend about this movie, however I don’t think it deserves the amount of hate it gets
I remember seeing like 5 minutes of this movie on the TV once like 10 years ago, it was the part where the wolfman attacks a trolley of people. That one part kinda stuck with me, but I had completely forgotten what movie it was from.
Sorry, but American Werewolf in London is the greatest, it set the standard for all the werewolf movies. Dog Soldiers will always be top tier, but it can't compete for the first spot against a movie that was so good it literally created a new category at the Oscars and very ironically the same guy won yet another Oscar 30 years later, for this exact 2010 wolfman lol
My favorite werewolf movies in chronological order. The Wolf Man 1941 An American Werewolf in London The Howling Ginger Snaps Ginger Snaps 2 Dog Soldiers Werewolves Within Werewolf by Night And special shout out to Trick R Treat for its killer werewolf segment!
Loved this remake. It’s schlocky and over the top but Benicio del toro and Emily blunt kill it. And of course there’s the great Anthony Hopkins. The werewolf fight at the end makes me laugh but it seriously scared me as a kid
One of my best friends told me her interpretation of the overall theme of the movie was generational trauma with a heavy emphasis on csa, and I've never been able to view it as anything else.
The theme of the film has absolutely nothing at all to do with this interpretation that your friend has. That's SO weird actually, to be honest. It's on par with watching 'Dumb and Dumber' and saying it's a movie about the struggles of PTSD. Like.... WHAT???
It’s a plausible theory, as Lawrence’s father tries to pass down his werewolf curse to both his sons, but failed. His father wanted to keep the curse in his bloodline, a curse which brought nothing but death and suffering. Lawrence’s childhood trauma stems from his dysfunctional home life, having a cold-hearted, disinterested father, witnessing his mother’s bloody corpse, his icy relationship with his brother, and being sent to an asylum as a child to be horrifically tortured. I’m gonna bet that Anthony Hopkin’s character probably got bitten by his father or a family relative, who like him, wanted to pass down the curse.
We could've gotten a practical Werewolf transformation since the Man who created the one for a particular Transformation in the 80's he did, but since a new director was signed on before shooting began CGI had to be done
I remember watching the Wolfman remake in theaters back in 9th grade. While I enjoyed it as a teenager, it clearly didn't age well over time. Honestly, the live-action Disney short film Werewolf By Night feels like a better Wolfman homage than this forgotten remake. 🐺🌕
This is my favorite werewolf movie besides Dog Soldiers. For anyone who doesn’t know this was supposed to be the start of the universal monsters universe. Sucks it tanked because Benicio was a great wolf man
I love this remake. I mean as it's own thing, it gives me everything I want from a period piece werewolf film. It's a little campy but it's a classic monster movie, that's what I expect. The first time I watched I thought I was going to hate it and I didn't really know Del Toro as an actor. I knew his name and that my brother liked him a lot but other than the Collector or whoever in the MCU, I didn't who he was or what he was capable of as a leading man. So the first time, I didn't understand and thought he was the worst thing in the film. But the more I've watched it, the more I appreciate it. The cgi isn't fantastic but it was 2010. Most cgi was overused and rushed. But here, I appreciated the usage of practical and cgi. I would have prefered more practical but as a werewolf movie fan in general, who doesn't want that. The transformation scene in the asylum is the best scene in the whole film, no questions, and I have always thought this was my perfect image of a werewolf design. Not sure why, it just always has been. So that gives it extra points too. The atmosphere is pretty solid throughout for me as well. It is kind of bland for the love triangle aspect but I did find the werewolf battle to be pretty cool too. It always seemed to me that they wanted it to be dark and forlorn and moody like the original but this was after Twilight and after Iron Man so they probably had to make changes to accommodate for the mainstream as much as possible. I also love the design of the poster art. It's simple and gothic and you know what your going into. My guess is that the filmmaker did the best they could with what the study was probably demanding from them. But, I can also understand why someone would write it off, even if I don't agree. For me, it fits nicely next to Dracula Untold as an underrated gem (although Dracula Untold is far worse but I enjoy it on it's own.)
Dog Soldiers really is the best werewolf movie. I saw it once and had to own it. Apparently it's hard to get a US dvd version, but after 1 failed purchase and lots of searching I managed to buy it. (I'm sure it's easier to find now, but this was over 10 years ago)
When it comes to the werewolf designs themselves, I honestly love them very much. They are perfect portrayals of men turning into wild, feral humanoid beasts. I understand why people prefer werewolves having more wolf-like heads and faces, and in some cases, I agree. But there are also times where I prefer them looking somewhat more human, while still having exaggerated animalistic features. For example, the Spanish film Lobos de Arga aka Game of Werewolves has some of the best lycanthrope designs in my opinion. But when it comes to my absolute favourite werewolf look, it's either the 2010 Wolfman, or the Kessler Wolf from An American Werewolf in London.
Mark Romanek was the original Director, but he left in January 2008 due to Creative Differences, Joe Johnston took the Director’s chair one month before Filming started.
I think one of the few good things about this movie is the cliffhanger. If Universal wants to truly have the Dark Universe stuff, I hope they just adopt this as it’s Wolfman remake and connect it to the other movies. I’m surprised it wasn’t considered the beginning of their dark universe when that concept was announced
Rick Baker “The Monster Maker” said him and Del Toro were the only people that wanted to be there and everyone else seemed embarrassed to be working on a movie about the Wolfman. Sad because it could’ve been so good.
My dad and i went see this in the theater when it first premiered. We both thought it was cheesy and got kicked out for laughing too much. My dad sadly passed back in 2021. Thank you for bringing back such a good memory with this video.
That movie is my guilty-pleasure absolutely loved it when I was younger and still like it’s atmosphere and brutality. I think the actors also did a good job especially the two main lead’s.
The real Aberline was born in Bournemouth, my hometown, he moved back after he retired, and he and his wife are buried in a large central graveyard in the town. Mary Shelley is buried in a another Churchyard a few miles away.
I don't know if people remember how much this movie was panned by the critics and the public at the time of its released. People were treating this film like it was the worst movie ever made and because of that, I ended up watching it only recently, which means... after Dracula Untold and The Mummy 2017, and in comparison? The Wolfman is almost good. At least, it attempted to recreate the setting that we love so much in the classic Universal movies, unlike The Mummy 2017 and The Invisible Man 2020. For the best werewolf movie, that's difficult. I grew up with Wolf (1994) but I'm gonna have to say Ginger Snaps.
I watched this when I was younger (maybe 14?) and it was probably the first film that actually left me feeling kind of confused about what they were trying to tell me, tonally, just as you said.
I actually really like this movie. It was one of the funnest theater experiences I’ve ever had. My friend and I were laughing so hard at the random intestines and gore that appeared despite the wolf man not attacking people’s stomachs.
I remember this, along with Shutter Island and Splice, as one of the few movies i went to go see with just my Stepdad when I was younger. think I was 15 at the time. I barely remembered anything about it, but now I want to watch it again. same with shutter island the same could not be said about Splice
Ryan, I agree with Dog Soldiers, except for ONE thing: the werewolves lose in the end. It will always remain my biggest werewolf movie disappointment because of that.
It would be interesting to see you cover the myriad of Frankenstein iterations as well keeping in the same vein as the old classics. Heck you could even do a comparison of the original Mummy to the newer ones. Even discussing certain Dracula movies too and round it out.
Personally I still like this one for the rampage sequence if nothing else. That being said the novelization is much better. They added more details and though the book follows the dialog word for word there's more to sink your teeth into.
It feels like critics of this remake just dismiss it because it’s not the original. Other than that I don’t get these problems others seem to so easily find.
I actually went to see this dud at the pictures. My main memory of it was that there was an on-screen decapitation in the first 30 seconds and that I then spent the rest of the film remembering Nigel Tuffnel in Spinal Tap saying "Where do you go from there? This one goes up to 11!" ...and sure enough, it went up to 11. As I recall, there was also a scene fairly early on which featured intestines flying through the air. By the time the "climactic" fight happened at the end it just felt so cartoonishly stupid and simultaneously overblown and inconsequential. I just wasn't engaged or interested in it. The whole thing just had no dynamic structure to it, like the filmic equivalent of brickwall compression on music: it starts LOUD and continues LOUD until it just gets wearying. You can't realistically escalate from an opening on-screen decapitation without it getting either silly or severely fucked-up. I just remember the climax as totally underwhelming and dull.
I enjoyed it for what it was worth. I love werewolves. Next to the king Godzilla I don't think there's any other movie monster I love as much. I just hate that modern day audiences don't seem to love werewolves. It's all about vampires, ghosts, and zombies.
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1994's The Crow starring Brandon Lee
Caveat 2020 Irish horror! It's pretty interesting!
Interview With The Vampire! Thanks for another great video Ryan!
Razorback
Please cover May from 2001 - fantastic horror character study. I also second the suggestion of Razorback listed above!!!
You know as forgettable as this film was, I do appreciate that they don't try to make the Wolfman design overly realistic like how most other horror remakes tend to do. Aside from the dated CG, the transformation in the courthouse scene looked pretty neat.
That scene is pretty terrifying thanks to Elfman’s score & even Johnston’s direction. It is darkly funny how oblivious the head doctor is to Lawrence’s transformation until it’s too late
Tbh, I think about this movie sometimes. I really love this movie.
Plus, you have to hand it to Anthony Hopkins for having to spend hours in a makeup chair at his age.
CGI on Hollywood movies is something funny, it was overused throughout the whole 2000s and nowadays people love to crap on it and say how bad it looks, but if we’re being honest most practical effects from movies pre-cgi era look even worse.
I agree.
"Even a man who is pure of heart, and says his prayers by night, may become a HOYEVERMAN when the Vessi Code blooms."
We need The Hoyeverman movie!
Gesundheit
God dammit I’m mad at wstine79 for that comment 😂
@@nahthanksno8299 I know, dying to see this film!
I enjoyed this Wolfman. I believe it’s the first film where I met Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro. Who are both really great in the film along with of course Anthony Hopkins.
Also, we can't go without praising Rick Baker's practical work. The look of the Wolfman was a solid update of the classic 1940s design. I liked it, anyway.
It's funny how Hopkins was in this and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Now he needs to be cast in Del Toro's Frankenstein to complete his Universal horror trilogy. He'd be perfect as the blind man.
I agree with your statement @carver Augustus. I know this movie can be corny and bad in some areas, but I really enjoyed the story and it is something I’ll watch every once in a while
Benicio should turn into a wolf in Sicario now THAT would be a sweet twist.
@@billybobtexas The cartels would never see it coming
The tone thing with Captain America is because it was deliberately calling back to classic 1940's Captain America comics and comic book covers - Johnson was trying to make the movie look as if Jack Kirby himself directed it, basically. He did something similar with The Rocketeer, where he managed to make everyone and everything look as close to Dave Stevens' art as possible (even with the PG changes to the story).
Absolutely. Captain America is the brainchild of two jews wanting to fight Hitler while staying safe. It's patriotic af for a reason.
@@fjorgyn7438 true, and a lot of superheros were partially or wholly created by Jewish people. Superman, Spiderman, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, and The Ninja Turtles, all have Jewish creators/co-creators
Yeah I'm not sure how it's intention is even a question.
I love the first Captain America movie
I loved it precisely because it was a throwback to WW2 Pulp Heroes and Johnson was a very inspired choice for director because he indeed made "The Rocketeer". Nothing wrong with some old school action/adventure about kicking Hitler's butt.
The only issues with The First Avenger is that it could've been 15-20 minutes longer to flash out some characters more (especially the Red Skull who was pretty unremarkable as a big bad) and that they tried to play off HYDRA as something that is worse than Hitler and only Cap can stop it, which even if it's an alternate history fantasy movie, it doesn't sit well with me and is a tad disrespectful to all the heroes in real life who had to stop Hitler and his genocidal horrors, I would've kept Red Skull loyal to Hitler so it's an even match civilians/real life heroes vs Hitler with Red Skull vs Cap behind the scenes.
Still, Ryan's attempt of dunking on Johnson and trying to play off like TFA is overly patriotic or has odd tones was weak.
I love this remake as much as the original. It's not perfect but it is fun to just sit back & enjoy. My favorite scene is still the escape scene. I just love how the inspector realizes that either his suspicions about Laurence being a werewolf were true or how he was hoping that Laurence wasn't actually a werewolf & just a murder. And the whole scene with everyone in the room realizing that they're in danger but the doctor continues just talking because he's too engrossed in his speech that he doesn't realize until far to late that Laurence isn't delusional but rather an actual werewolf that is going to kill just about everyone in the room
The forbidden three goes as follows.
Victor Frankenstein.
Wolfman.
Dracula untold.
These universal remakes are hidden gems in the world of 2010 era movies.
What I found funny is he didn’t kill everyone in the room. He only killed two people with the escape scene
@@peterversionone Yeah. It is definitely odd. He only kills the orderly who was trying to sedate him and the doctor. I guess if the others hadn't busted down the door he may have killed the others but they stayed out of his way, didn't try to antagonize him, and those that were kind of in his way only got some minor injuries before he went out the window
@@claratalbot7613 and both of those people abused him when he was human
@@011mrq7duuude makin me remember dracula unt9ld AND victor frankenstein i must thank you
Ya'know, Ryan is usually pretty forgiving of films and super willing to grab onto and expand on any positive quality. So it's kinda weird that he seems to REALLY dislike The Wolfman Remake of all things. I thought this movie was fine. Campy, gorey, cool practical effects.
Agreed. I've not seen it in a while, but yeah. The acting is TOP TIER, the effects and violence are good. The wolf looks underwhelming imo, the ending is mid and the characters are paper thin, but they're supposed to be, it's like a play on screen rather than a feature film.
I don't think it's a coincidence that his issues with Joe Johnson's direction and the story writing/rewrites are the first things he discusses. Ryan is very positive when it comes to passion project type films even if they turn out bad but he's made his distaste for studio interference and directorial vanity leading to botch jobs, and I definitely think that's what's going on here. It doesn't help that even though he's shown support for both faithful but distinct remakes, and reinterpretations, The Wolfman doesn't really seem like it knows which of the two it wants to be, and that unevenness just keeps bringing the issues with Joe Johnson back to front and centre. He doesn't let go of that because the movie won't let him.
It was lambasted on release by talentless hacks who wanted to ride the coattails of James Rolfe and Doug Walker. And, since nobody with a big enough name has stepped up to defend the film, it's easy pickings for a whole new breed of talentless hacks.
@@judgejudyandexecutioner.5223I thought the visual effects looked awful but the practical effects were amazing I loved the look of the wolfman the most. The actors are top tier but they don’t get to be their best. Still I enjoyed it enough, the movie is really interesting to watch and it’s pretty clearly a labor of love to a degree
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You can't entirely blame Joe Johnston for the way the film turned out, since he stepped in as director only about a month before production after the original director left the project. He had basically no prep-time to get to know the source material and make any changes he wanted up front, hence the rewrites during reshoots.
This film is a "CLASSIC"!
I thought he did pretty well with this all considering.
Man I’m bummed people didn’t seem to like this movie. It’s incredibly bleak, atmospheric and serious, but damn I absolutely adore this movie.
"It's THE GREATEST WEREWOLF FILM OF ALL-TIME"!
Really glad to hear your angle on this - I absolutely love this remake as it looks beautiful and totally / unashamedly wears its influences & references on its sleeve (not to mention the soundtrack which almost directly apes the score from 1992's 'Bram Stoker's Dracula') and I rate Hugo Weaving's "...pint of bitter, please" speech to be one of the best in any modern, tongue-in-cheek horror.
Hugh Weaving is definitely the highlight of the acting
Personally, I loved this movie. The theatrical cut was a mess, but the unrated DVD version put everything together nicely enough (dirty trick by the studios, but it worked, sort of). I love gothic horror with it's heavy atmosphere and tragic endings. Van Helsing worked that way for me as well. The ending that I would have preferred, hoyever, would have been for Blunt's character to be bitten and carried off into the moonlight. Was it perfect? Of course not, what is?
I think that a major issue in today's cinema is the expectation or demand that movies be "realistic" and/or logically consistent. While that can work for some genres, this can end up hurting a more speculative work. Stories of old never had that requirement and yet they have stood the test of time.
I do wonder if Ryan ever heard about the extended cut? It makes a much better film of 'The Wolfman'. Perfect? No. But a decent film that helps with one's desire for gothic horror.
You know, in terms of werewolf/lycanthropy movies that have been released in recent years, one of the best I've seen is one that actually hasn't gotten a major release by the time of this comment (April 2023), the Canadian film My Animal. That's a VERY well-done coming-of-age/lesbian romance/werewolf film that plays on many familiar elements of all the genres mentioned here and does them in a unique enough way to stand out from its peers. Seriously, check that out when it gets released, it's awesome.
Lost me at "lesbian". Now, if it were a romance between bara werewolf daddies...
@@Duothimir It's just the main girl and her father that really are the werewolves in this. The girl she's attracted to (Amandla Stenberg) isn't a werewolf. And this isn't THAT type romance movie. Like I said, it's got a bit of a Coming Of Age sheen to it.
I'm about to write a juggalo and redneck culture vampire v werewolf cosmic horror. Purely an adrenaline junkie dark comedy of white trash culture
The sad thing is, this movie has a lot of the pieces to have a solid new adaptation of this story. A number of quality actors in the cast (Sir Anthony Hopkins, Benicio Del Toro, Hugo Weaving, and a pre-breakout Emily Blunt), some terrific and brutal gore effects, and the possibility to update the source material and even improve upon it (because honestly, as much as the original Wolf Man is remembered as one of the classic Universal Monster movies, I'm still up in the air on how well it's held up compared to ones like Dracula and Frankenstein). Yet this is one of those movies where the thing that should tie all these phenomenal pieces together, the writing, unfortunately wasn't there. I think there is enough potential to do a solid new adaptation of this, it's just a bummer that this wasn't it.
I watched through all the classic Universal "wolf" movies last October and I came away loving Werewolf of London way more than Wolf Man. Imo, Talbot gets more interesting in the later Wolf Man movies.
This is a pretty good comment. Watching the movie for the first time right now. It is like how do you make a story about a werewolf so boring while simultaneously having so many more interesting stories mentioned or hinted at without being explored.
Audiences hated it because the characters all acted quiet, and restrained. You know, like actual Victorians. A lot of Americans can't process emotions that aren't screamed in their faces.
I actually really enjoyed this version. The vibe was well done. I saw it more of an homage than a 'remake'. Also I've always felt terrible for the Wolfman due to his inability to escape his tragic fate.
Honestly, the worst part is how it seems like Del Toro and Hugo Weaving are the only ones really trying to act. Anthony Hopkins was just like a tired old man, not what I expected. But I still watch this sometimes, skipping over the hospital treatment scenes
I mean, Hopkins is an old man....lol
@thnzxc yeah, that's why I put tired old man lol. Just because you're older doesnt mean you have to say your lines like you wanna fall asleep asap
We haven't had a good werewolf movie since Dog Soldiers
but werewolves within was a fun romp
Wait for My Animal to come out. That's one of the best werewolf movies I've seen in the last few years.
Raw and Wer come to mind. Raw was all around awesome. Wer was just something else, in a good way. And the Wolf of Snow Hollow was enjoyable enough too, if somewhat bipolar what kind of movie it is trying to be.
@@mushroom032 RAW wasn’t a werewolf movie though. That was more of a cannibal film.
Late Phases is decent
@@heymistercarter. Ehhh, it was both, they were cannibals, yes, but it was a heredary disease like thing, abit like the moon, or bite or both transforms one to a werewolf, eating raw meat transformed the sisters into raveneous cannibals who struggle to contain the urges and live a relatively normal life, not unlike a werewolf.
Apparently Johnston came in late in production as the previous director dropped out.
If you haven’t, watch The Rocketeer. It’s easily Johnston’s best film and nails that classic action serial vibe First Avenger was going for.
I love both the rocketeer and the first captain america movie
I saw this movie in theaters. Halfway through my friend looked over at me and asked if we could leave, and I was so uninterested in what was going on I was just like, “Yeah, that’s fine.” Another friend wanted to see it so I went again, and made it through the second time. Ultimately landed on weird but fine. Loved hearing your thoughts as always.
P.S. Your point about Joe Johnston is dead on, and the exact reason I love Pagemaster so much lol.
Dog Soldiers is great, but I feel like if that is the undisputed champion of the genre, then the genre as a whole could really use some work. I like the werewolf concept. Why don't we have more good werewolf movies?
Agree in general
Try late phases
I remember Ginger Snaps as being quite a good werewolf movie
I like your question. Rossatron has a great video on the subject, "What makes a great werewolf?"
Highly recommend.
I sure wish it didn’t fail. It would’ve been good to get a shared universe out of this that focused on the horror.
Ngl I find it better than the original. While the original is more melancholic, the remake is just so much more gruesome and brutal, adding more to the tragedy of Talbot. Everytime he wakes up in the morning after a full moon night del Toro acts so well with the work he was given. It's such a good movie. Sure the third act is a bit goofy where it turns into wolf v wolf hollywood cheese but the ending, Emily blunt's acting and the hallucination/nightmare scenes are so good. Sir Anthony was such a good villain in this. One of the few remakes I consider better than the original.
Hoping Ryan Gosling's Wolfman would be better. Apparently they're going w a newsreporter werewolf reporting on his own killings vibe, sounds interesting.
I really enjoyed watching the movie back then and from time to time it crossed my mind again. I think what stood out to me was that at that age my main other source of werewolf action was the Underworld series and, as you mention yourself, Van Helsing. It was refreshing to have a more slow paced movie. As I now have a bigger repertoire of comparisons, I like that we got a "classic" werewolf design in that era of film making, one that looks more like the original Wolfman and An American Werewolf in London.
Dog Soldiers = bargain bin Aliens with werewolves. The Howling = actual greatest werewolf movie of all time
I'm actually surprised that you didn't see (or at least mention) the Wolfman's homage to the American Werewolf in London's Piccadilly Circus scene....
It's unfortunate this film is seen as a failure, it's underrated in my opinion. One of my favorite werewolf films! Love the gore, one of the best live-action werewolves too!
I would watch a 2 hour video of you do analysis of different horror movies honestly
I rarely disagree too much from your reviews, but I thought this film was great.
As for Captain America, the movie took place in WW2 and the comic was, at least to some extent, very much pro-USA marketing and I thought he use of that visual elements elevated a rather paint by numbers plot (which stayed VERY true to the comics, moreso than most MCU).
As for JP3, I felt of all the sequels it was the only one that was tonally similar to the first
It is one of my fav werewolf movies!
Now I wanna hear about that "From Hell" adaptation, please!
When i watched this last year, i was bewildered. I rather enjoyed it. THIS is the trainwreck id always heard about?
The film for which the head of universal said is the "worst film universal has ever made?"
The man who greenlit The Cat In The Hat said THIS was worse than anything else they made in 100 years of film making?
Why is it so reviled?
Its not fantastic, but its not even in the top 50 of universals worst much less The worst like the ceo so claimed
Unpopular opinion: I enjoy this movie. Maybe I'm just an easy mark for werewolf movies, they're probably my favorite of the classic movie monsters, but I still like to throw this one on when I'm in the right mood. The actors all seem to be having fun with what they're given and I do get a kick out of the pure horror aspects. It may not be a great movie, but considering that this was the same era that gave us remakes like 'The Wicker Man' and 'The Hitcher' that completely shit the bed on what they did to their source material, I really don't mind this.
Now that you brought it up I would absolutely love to see you cover the film version of From Hell! @HistoryBuffs did a video a few years ago that nicely covered the historical inaccuracies of the film, but what's especially interesting is how it went about adapting the source material in that the comic followed The Ripper while the film is structured as a typical whodunit where we find out his identity over time.
I think Ryan seemed reluctant to get into that 😂 I would love to see him take it on. I kinda liked that movie in my teen years, but yeah it’s not great but wasn’t expecting Shakespeare
@@LucyLioness100 Exactly why I want to see him cover it! I can definitely say that it had a great sense of style but that's about it. It's enjoyable if you don't bother to think about it.
I always felt that because Del Toro plays Talbot so grim and assholey, the savagery of his werewolf murders never felt very out of character? Like personally, the contrast between the human and the monster is really important in creating empathy for the protagonist in the audience. So if your protag is a dickhead weirdo (like how Del Toro plays it), its harder to empathise imo.
Dog Soldiers does kick ass, but I found that its more zombie movie in its execution, and doesn't super deal with the typical themes of traditional werewolf media. My fav is still 100% Ginger Snaps; I think the script is the sharpest werewolf movie out there, it inverts the typical masculine concepts of lycanthropy in a really interesting way, has some neat STI metaphors, the violence is shocking and the practical effects are incredible (although not American Werewolf standard, obvs).
I’m probably one of the five people that like this one. They werewolf design and presentation is the best we’ve gotten in a long time. I think nitpicking the cgi isn’t entirely fair as it looks pretty good for being 13 years old. We still get digital gore in the best horror movies TODAY. Plus the werewolf is a practical effect for the majority of the runtime.
That’s all I can really defend about this movie, however I don’t think it deserves the amount of hate it gets
I remember seeing like 5 minutes of this movie on the TV once like 10 years ago, it was the part where the wolfman attacks a trolley of people. That one part kinda stuck with me, but I had completely forgotten what movie it was from.
Always happy to see you upload Ryan. Thanks
Sorry, but American Werewolf in London is the greatest, it set the standard for all the werewolf movies. Dog Soldiers will always be top tier, but it can't compete for the first spot against a movie that was so good it literally created a new category at the Oscars and very ironically the same guy won yet another Oscar 30 years later, for this exact 2010 wolfman lol
Not even as a guilty pleasure...i love this movie
I agree with most of your comments...there was no chemistry between the couple but all of the Wolfman scenes were awesome.
Dog Soldiers is one of my favourite films but will always take second place to An American Werewolf in London for me.
My favorite werewolf movies in chronological order.
The Wolf Man 1941
An American Werewolf in London
The Howling
Ginger Snaps
Ginger Snaps 2
Dog Soldiers
Werewolves Within
Werewolf by Night
And special shout out to Trick R Treat for its killer werewolf segment!
I had no idea there was even a Wolfman remake. After seeing this synopsis, now I understand why.
Loved this remake. It’s schlocky and over the top but Benicio del toro and Emily blunt kill it. And of course there’s the great Anthony Hopkins. The werewolf fight at the end makes me laugh but it seriously scared me as a kid
One of my best friends told me her interpretation of the overall theme of the movie was generational trauma with a heavy emphasis on csa, and I've never been able to view it as anything else.
The theme of the film has absolutely nothing at all to do with this interpretation that your friend has. That's SO weird actually, to be honest. It's on par with watching 'Dumb and Dumber' and saying it's a movie about the struggles of PTSD. Like.... WHAT???
@@DeadPixel1105 Unnecessarily hostile response but okay
It’s a plausible theory, as Lawrence’s father tries to pass down his werewolf curse to both his sons, but failed. His father wanted to keep the curse in his bloodline, a curse which brought nothing but death and suffering. Lawrence’s childhood trauma stems from his dysfunctional home life, having a cold-hearted, disinterested father, witnessing his mother’s bloody corpse, his icy relationship with his brother, and being sent to an asylum as a child to be horrifically tortured. I’m gonna bet that Anthony Hopkin’s character probably got bitten by his father or a family relative, who like him, wanted to pass down the curse.
Missed the hoyevers, good to be watching Ryan again
4:58 loving this essay; *you’re the man now, dawg!*
For such an iconic, well known entity like a Werewolf it's amazing how few great films there have been about it.
We could've gotten a practical Werewolf transformation since the Man who created the one for a particular Transformation in the 80's he did, but since a new director was signed on before shooting began CGI had to be done
I remember watching the Wolfman remake in theaters back in 9th grade. While I enjoyed it as a teenager, it clearly didn't age well over time. Honestly, the live-action Disney short film Werewolf By Night feels like a better Wolfman homage than this forgotten remake. 🐺🌕
I have this movie. I got it for 1$. I liked it. It ain't perfect but quite enjoyable
This is my favorite werewolf movie besides Dog Soldiers. For anyone who doesn’t know this was supposed to be the start of the universal monsters universe. Sucks it tanked because Benicio was a great wolf man
I love this remake. I mean as it's own thing, it gives me everything I want from a period piece werewolf film. It's a little campy but it's a classic monster movie, that's what I expect. The first time I watched I thought I was going to hate it and I didn't really know Del Toro as an actor. I knew his name and that my brother liked him a lot but other than the Collector or whoever in the MCU, I didn't who he was or what he was capable of as a leading man. So the first time, I didn't understand and thought he was the worst thing in the film. But the more I've watched it, the more I appreciate it. The cgi isn't fantastic but it was 2010. Most cgi was overused and rushed. But here, I appreciated the usage of practical and cgi. I would have prefered more practical but as a werewolf movie fan in general, who doesn't want that. The transformation scene in the asylum is the best scene in the whole film, no questions, and I have always thought this was my perfect image of a werewolf design. Not sure why, it just always has been. So that gives it extra points too. The atmosphere is pretty solid throughout for me as well. It is kind of bland for the love triangle aspect but I did find the werewolf battle to be pretty cool too. It always seemed to me that they wanted it to be dark and forlorn and moody like the original but this was after Twilight and after Iron Man so they probably had to make changes to accommodate for the mainstream as much as possible. I also love the design of the poster art. It's simple and gothic and you know what your going into. My guess is that the filmmaker did the best they could with what the study was probably demanding from them. But, I can also understand why someone would write it off, even if I don't agree. For me, it fits nicely next to Dracula Untold as an underrated gem (although Dracula Untold is far worse but I enjoy it on it's own.)
Dog Soldiers really is the best werewolf movie. I saw it once and had to own it.
Apparently it's hard to get a US dvd version, but after 1 failed purchase and lots of searching I managed to buy it.
(I'm sure it's easier to find now, but this was over 10 years ago)
It failed only for superficial reasons. I don't know too many Werewolf fans that didn't like this movie.
I personally found it refreshing
When it comes to the werewolf designs themselves, I honestly love them very much. They are perfect portrayals of men turning into wild, feral humanoid beasts. I understand why people prefer werewolves having more wolf-like heads and faces, and in some cases, I agree. But there are also times where I prefer them looking somewhat more human, while still having exaggerated animalistic features. For example, the Spanish film Lobos de Arga aka Game of Werewolves has some of the best lycanthrope designs in my opinion. But when it comes to my absolute favourite werewolf look, it's either the 2010 Wolfman, or the Kessler Wolf from An American Werewolf in London.
This is the first r-rated movie I saw in theaters. I was in middle school and saw it with my best friend. We made fun of it the whole time.
Mark Romanek was the original Director, but he left in January 2008 due to Creative Differences, Joe Johnston took the Director’s chair one month before Filming started.
It didn't fail.. one of my favourite movies
Haven't seen Dog Soldiers, but my favorite werewolf movie would have to be Ginger Snaps!
Was just listening to Not That Bad discuss this film; wonderful timing! Gonna sit back and forget about my film school homework for a few minutes.
An American Werewolf in London is the greatest werewolf movie of all time. But the Wolf Man (2010) is also better than Dog Soldiers.
Bad Moon 1996 is better than all them
Mainly remember not being able to see a thing that was happening on screen. But it's looking worth a rewatch to see if TV quality has improved it.
I think one of the few good things about this movie is the cliffhanger. If Universal wants to truly have the Dark Universe stuff, I hope they just adopt this as it’s Wolfman remake and connect it to the other movies. I’m surprised it wasn’t considered the beginning of their dark universe when that concept was announced
Rick Baker “The Monster Maker” said him and Del Toro were the only people that wanted to be there and everyone else seemed embarrassed to be working on a movie about the Wolfman. Sad because it could’ve been so good.
My dad and i went see this in the theater when it first premiered. We both thought it was cheesy and got kicked out for laughing too much.
My dad sadly passed back in 2021.
Thank you for bringing back such a good memory with this video.
An American Werewolf In London is my favorite & love Dog Soldiers as well. Honorable mention The Howling...
I would agree that Dog Soldiers is one of the best werewolf movies of all time and certainly the best to come out in the 2000s.
That movie is my guilty-pleasure absolutely loved it when I was younger and still like it’s atmosphere and brutality. I think the actors also did a good job especially the two main lead’s.
You're absolutely right Ryan, Dog Soldiers is 200% the best werewolf movie of all time!
Those long legs gave my Brother nightmares lmao
The real Aberline was born in Bournemouth, my hometown, he moved back after he retired, and he and his wife are buried in a large central graveyard in the town. Mary Shelley is buried in a another Churchyard a few miles away.
Ginger Snaps is my Favorite Werewolf movie. I liked all 3 films, but the first one is just special.
A film that I’m very nostalgic for and would love to hear your thoughts on is Ginger Snaps
I think this movie is just a combination of some awesome sequences in a whatever story. I do like Benicio's and Anthony's acting in this movie.
i love this movie i have it on blue ray since it came out would love to have seen a wolfman 2
The algorithm may hate you, but I love you man, thanks for all the great content
i actually originally watched dog soldiers bc of your video on it and i loved it !! always looking forward to new uploads
I don't know if people remember how much this movie was panned by the critics and the public at the time of its released. People were treating this film like it was the worst movie ever made and because of that, I ended up watching it only recently, which means... after Dracula Untold and The Mummy 2017, and in comparison? The Wolfman is almost good. At least, it attempted to recreate the setting that we love so much in the classic Universal movies, unlike The Mummy 2017 and The Invisible Man 2020.
For the best werewolf movie, that's difficult. I grew up with Wolf (1994) but I'm gonna have to say Ginger Snaps.
Actually, the best Werewolf movie of all time is The Werewolf of Washington, starring Dean Stockwell.
I watched this when I was younger (maybe 14?) and it was probably the first film that actually left me feeling kind of confused about what they were trying to tell me, tonally, just as you said.
Say whatever you want but I loved this film and still do. 🤷🏻♂️
I usually agree with you Ryan but with this one I just can’t understand your take. I feel like we watched two different movies somehow
I actually really like this movie. It was one of the funnest theater experiences I’ve ever had. My friend and I were laughing so hard at the random intestines and gore that appeared despite the wolf man not attacking people’s stomachs.
I remember this, along with Shutter Island and Splice, as one of the few movies i went to go see with just my Stepdad when I was younger. think I was 15 at the time. I barely remembered anything about it, but now I want to watch it again. same with shutter island
the same could not be said about Splice
OMG YES!!!!! Dog Soldiers IS the greatest werewolf movie of all time!!!! I cant understand why everyone seems to hate it, its brilliant!!!
Ryan, I agree with Dog Soldiers, except for ONE thing: the werewolves lose in the end. It will always remain my biggest werewolf movie disappointment because of that.
It would be interesting to see you cover the myriad of Frankenstein iterations as well keeping in the same vein as the old classics. Heck you could even do a comparison of the original Mummy to the newer ones. Even discussing certain Dracula movies too and round it out.
Would like to see you discuss From Hell. It’s nothing like the graphic novel (which I love), but I still enjoy the film.
Personally I still like this one for the rampage sequence if nothing else. That being said the novelization is much better. They added more details and though the book follows the dialog word for word there's more to sink your teeth into.
The real horror all along was Ryan's early 2000's NSYNC inspired hair. Spooky!
Dog Soldiers cannot be the greatest werewolf movie because it isn't a werewolf movie. It's 100% a soldier movie........with werewolves.
Here's my question, what happened with Hugo Weaving at the end? Was he supposed to be a werewolf or was he cured because Talbot was killed?
Thank you for pointing out that the soundtrack slaps HARD.
Loved that movie! Takes place in the 1800's great actors and good action. The detective has the curse now, Would love a sequel.
It feels like critics of this remake just dismiss it because it’s not the original. Other than that I don’t get these problems others seem to so easily find.
I actually went to see this dud at the pictures. My main memory of it was that there was an on-screen decapitation in the first 30 seconds and that I then spent the rest of the film remembering Nigel Tuffnel in Spinal Tap saying "Where do you go from there? This one goes up to 11!" ...and sure enough, it went up to 11. As I recall, there was also a scene fairly early on which featured intestines flying through the air. By the time the "climactic" fight happened at the end it just felt so cartoonishly stupid and simultaneously overblown and inconsequential. I just wasn't engaged or interested in it. The whole thing just had no dynamic structure to it, like the filmic equivalent of brickwall compression on music: it starts LOUD and continues LOUD until it just gets wearying. You can't realistically escalate from an opening on-screen decapitation without it getting either silly or severely fucked-up. I just remember the climax as totally underwhelming and dull.
This movie has Olga Fedori in it, so underrated in the 2008 horror film Mum and Dad :D
I guess I'm the only one whose favorite werewolf movie is Werewolf of London (1935), although the werewolf does admittedly look like a terrier.
I enjoyed it for what it was worth. I love werewolves. Next to the king Godzilla I don't think there's any other movie monster I love as much. I just hate that modern day audiences don't seem to love werewolves. It's all about vampires, ghosts, and zombies.
I can’t remember walking into a theater wanting to like a movie more than this…and was thoroughly disappointed