In Furlough, Texas, the "goat capital of the world", in a "place where nothing ever happens", a Mexican werewolf is on the rampage and everyone, including dogs, goats, and humans, is on the menu. Narrated by Anna(Erika Fay), looking forward to graduating and getting out of her Podunk town, she informs us of the various characters who occupy Furlough, friends, locals of importance, and family and tells us of the werewolf and the mayhem that results from its appetite. Mexican WEREWOLF IN Texas shows the animosity and racial tension between Mexican-Americans and White-Caucasians in Furlough—Anna is dating a Mexican which is a no-no because her pops (who runs the local morgue and has hick relatives he is ashamed of) is against "mixed relations". The legend of the Chupicabra starts spreading throughout the community and before you know it civil unrest leads to the citizenry packing heat and assembling a search party intended on finding the beast slaughtering the goats. The humor actually, I felt, rescues this movie from utter catastrophe because when the werewolf is introduced, I cringed at its laughable look expecting yet another microbudget trashheap. I think if you are entertained by "redneck" Texans (communicating via hick-speak) in cowboy hats, mouthing off about "wetbacks" they consider the threat of the local community, this might have an appeal. Actually the Mexicans are presented in a more favorable light than the white Texan racists who seem uneducated and naïve. It might seem like this movie is a social commentary on race relations in Texas, but it is all presented in a jokey manner, tongue wagging, not serious in the least. The local law enforcement is inept as you'd expect ("It must be a kiiiiyote or something.") so the beast's onslaught can continue until someone else does something about it. Gabriel Gutierrez is Anna's boyfriend, Miguel, Michael Carreo is wise-ass Tommy, Martine Hughes (as Rosie hoping to receive a scholarship from the University of Texas)and Sara Erikson(as ditsy Jill, prone to sleep around, speaking in Valley girl, always chewing a wad of bubblegum)are Anna's gal-pals. With a cheap movie such as this, the director tries to move the camera around and edit it to hell and back when the goofy werewolf costume is present so that the monster won't be as rib-tickling as it can be when fully on screen.
Review of Mexican Werewolf in Texas
