Did you watch DISTURBIA and think "This is a pretty good movie, but it'd be so much better with bad acting, weird lighting and werewolves?" Then this is the movie for you!
The story: Loren (played by Nina Dobrev of the VAMPIRE DIARIES) sees a mysterious new neighbor arrive and soon after people start disappearing. Loren becomes convinced the neighbor is a werewolf. Of course, everyone thinks she is crazy except the pizza delivery boy, who thinks she is hot (which is true: she is hot). Meanwhile, the mysterious neighbor becomes obsessed with the girl since she reminds him of his dead wife. He becomes jealous and decides to take out the pizza boy. During the attack where he sicks his hellhound on the boy at a local hunting store, a local celebrity who has a failing hunting show gets involved as they team up and kill the hell hound. The celebrity is excited because the news channels now want to talk to him and he joins the girl to hunt the werewolf, but the pizza boy was bit. Now the girl, with the help of the celebrity, must kill the werewolf before he transforms completely even as the werewolf is coming for the girl.
Did I say it was like DISTURBIA? Maybe I should have said FRIGHT NIGHT, because that's almost the exact plot of F-N, except with vampires instead of werewolves, right down to the celebrity hunter. But where DISTURBIA was a cool little thriller and FRIGHT NIGHT is must see classic horror/comedy, this movie just falls flat. I wish I could say what's wrong, bu it's just everything. The plot doesn't work, the relationships don't work, the horror sequences are bad, the special effects are bad, the comedy isn't funny, there are no cool moments, no wow, no laughs. And, as often happens in hybrids that don't work -- the tone is all over the place with actors hamming it up and others playing melodrama and the comedy not working and the horror not working. Unfortunately, it's not even campy enough to be a fun B-movie.
PASS
Recommend instead: if you want something fun Fright Night, Goonies, Eight Legged Freaks, Return of the Living Dead, Tremors, The Blob (90's remake with Kevin Dillon), Zombieland, Gremlins and Gremlins 2, Arachnophobia, and Army of Darkness (aka Evil Dead 3)
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