slapdog3 It's Just Okay Nothing More Nothing Less, I Read The Reviews And Well "The HOWLING Pt 1 (1981) Starring Dee Wallace And Her Ex Husband Christopher Stone Is The Best Werewolf Movie Ever Made And From The Looks Of It Will Be The BEST EVER Made With "WOLF" (1994) Starring Michelle Pfeiffer And Jack Nicholson Coming In 2nd!

cj70 Somehow in the recent lists of werewolf movies or even good horror movies, Wer has been missed out. The first thing to point out is that it's not a video-diary movie (please enough of them already!) and instead it's filmed in a more fly- on-the-wall documentary style. This actually helps when building moments of tension as you feel like you are in the room when something bad could happen. Strangely the film is set in France which is only incidental as most of the time the characters are American or speaking English. The only downsides to the movie (and they are very few) are the reasons for the presence of Kate Moore and Eric Sarin to be involved in the hunt for the baddie, especially when things have already turned really, really nasty. Frankly I would have been a million miles away from the baddie as possible. Also the character Eric Sarin played by Vik Sahay makes an unconvincing deduction that the baddie is a werewolf after spending 2 minutes on the internet... it would have been better to leave that out... or any mention of werewolf. Also a character (no spoilers) decides to shave his entire head... I don't get it!!!.. but there you go, that's all the negatives out of the way (ooh, opening credits were a bit rubbish, don't let them put you off!). Now for some of the good bits... the story is fresh, the script steady and the pace perfect. There were several scenes that had me on the edge of my seat and genuinely made me jump (hooray for any horror film these days that can actually make you jump). The gore was just enough and appropriate, with an eye-watering scene involving a broken glass slide. In some ways Wer reminded me of Chronicle. I think it's the docu-video style down-playing some great action and SFX. So to sum up there's a lot to like in a fresh take on the werewolf movie, with plenty of tension, scares, gore and action.

TdSmth5 An American family is camping in France (?) with their dog and all. At night and during the full moon, suddenly the dog vanishes, the father goes looking for it, then something attacks him and the rest of the family. This all filmed by them. The wife survives. She tells the police she was attacked by some tall thin hairy guy with huge hands. Next the police arrest a guy named Talan who lives in the area with his mother.His defense lawyer is for some reason an American lawyer living in France. She works with some Indian guy who procures information and she also calls one of her exes who is a scientist.They interview Talan, who's rather quiet, shy, and reserved. They inspect the mutilated bodies and conclude it was some unknown animal that attacked the family. They interview the mother and find out that the father died in a mysterious one-car accident. Talan suffers from some condition that weakens him and causes him to be bed-ridden on some days. The government is also after their land because it's suited for nuclear waste disposal.When a rancher's horses are attacked the police mount an operation and kill the culprit--a bear.The researcher discovers that the unidentified condition from which Talan suffers could be porphyria. To confirm they have to perform some tests on him--a corneal swab and expose him to strobe lights. The corneal swab result is positive. During strobe light exposure Talan flips out, kills everyone brutally. All this in front of his defense team and the cops.Talan escapes to a building where the police mount an operation to capture him. They shower him with bullets but he's unaffected. He just wipes out all the cops then jumps from the building to the ground and escapes to his home in the country.They mount another operation to capture him--at night for some reason. But in the meantime something is happening to the scientist. We learn that he was bitten by Talan during a jail scuffle and now he's changing. And he actually realizes that only he will be able to face Talan.Wer is yet another update on the tired old POV movie format. While things start out POV, after the family attack, there is no moron there to "film everything no matter what." In the end the movie is more of a hybrid POV. It's mostly third person perspective but retains some POV camera-work--the camera angles, and some movements. Fortunately we are spared the hysteric shaking camera as well as the awful cheap green nightvision. But Wer retains some of the POV weaknesses--a cast you can't care about and some logic-defying stuff.It is however a remarkable improvement in terms of budget, effort, effects, and story. The important thing is that there is here an objective story. It's not about some idiots bickering at each other for two hours and losing their minds. There's plenty of cool gore and some very neat special effects and wirework. They even use a chopper and explosions.Not only is it an upgrade of POV movies but also a good effort at restoring some credibility to the werewolf genre which has been terribly abused by greedy filmmakers who couldn't care less about the genre. With Wer and the great Dracula Untold perhaps we'll see an updated revival of classical monsters.

Armand Jean du Plessis This is possibly the best werewolf movie i have seen. The werewolf character her impart a sense of loyalty, pathos and family. The acting is superb in my opinion and understated, especially from the main characters. This is one of the things that set so many foreign movies apart, usually no overacting. The werewolf in this movie is not evil in his human form, nor does he sought out the trouble that hunted him. It cultivates a sense of empathy. The story build up nicely to a climactic ending which leave you more or less guessing. There is a bit of art-house and bohemian air to this movie so its obviously not for everyone. But as a creature movie in general it excels, and finding a good creature movie is hard these days. The CGI is good and the soundtrack add to the suspense in a pleasant way.