The many possible surface layer virtues this film has or should have don't add up to much ultimately, that's not to say it doesn't seem poised to take off at times. It just never does.
I think a problem is the script, the longer it goes on, it starts then keeps reminding you of other better movies. By the time you have a sort of Saving Private Ryan style seqence it's just distracting and almost needless.
The director does a nice job shooting his own movie but probably would have done even better working for a different director to remind the cameraman that they are here to tell a story not just shoot pretty moody fog so slowly creeping around.
The story is pretty old hat really, it seems like it will delve a little more into the gypsy backstory from the original Universal film but after the first act this is pretty much forgotten as the film instead remembers various scenes and evne some lines from Carpenter's THE THING. The Thing they obviously has other influences here as far as tentacles, though branch like, creeping out of people.
There is a scarecrow that keeps showing up in people's dreams, until that grows tiresome. I think the whole film feels episodic and refuses to build to a proper climax.
The werewolves themselves are kept just out of full view, which is kinda of good ultimately as they do eventually turn into a rather dull CGI monster.
It's a well produced movie with a good cast--but neither the good cast or the production really serve or are demanded to tell a great scary story. This seems too bad where perhaps more lively innovative indy filmmakers in the horror genre don't have enough money to have the slickness that sort of papers over the undercooked script this movie has.
The film also probably has too many characters to really develop many of them, some protracted attack sequences happen to character who really juist arrive on the scene in order to get killed.
And wtf is up with the maid?
I think a problem is the script, the longer it goes on, it starts then keeps reminding you of other better movies. By the time you have a sort of Saving Private Ryan style seqence it's just distracting and almost needless.
The director does a nice job shooting his own movie but probably would have done even better working for a different director to remind the cameraman that they are here to tell a story not just shoot pretty moody fog so slowly creeping around.
The story is pretty old hat really, it seems like it will delve a little more into the gypsy backstory from the original Universal film but after the first act this is pretty much forgotten as the film instead remembers various scenes and evne some lines from Carpenter's THE THING. The Thing they obviously has other influences here as far as tentacles, though branch like, creeping out of people.
There is a scarecrow that keeps showing up in people's dreams, until that grows tiresome. I think the whole film feels episodic and refuses to build to a proper climax.
The werewolves themselves are kept just out of full view, which is kinda of good ultimately as they do eventually turn into a rather dull CGI monster.
It's a well produced movie with a good cast--but neither the good cast or the production really serve or are demanded to tell a great scary story. This seems too bad where perhaps more lively innovative indy filmmakers in the horror genre don't have enough money to have the slickness that sort of papers over the undercooked script this movie has.
The film also probably has too many characters to really develop many of them, some protracted attack sequences happen to character who really juist arrive on the scene in order to get killed.
And wtf is up with the maid?