A low budget movie about a rock band that are also werewolves.
The story: a college girl's ex- comes back after auditioning for a rock band and making the band, but deciding he wants to be with her instead. Then a new rock band comes to town and the guy gets drawn into them, except they are a band of werewolves. The girlfriend becomes suspicious and tries to save him and her best friend who also gets drawn into the group.
Was it good?
No. First it was directed by Alan Smythie...not a good sign. (Actually it was directed by Yvan Gauthier, but Alan Smythie is the name that is used when a director wants to take his name off a movie...and if Yvan Gauthier didn't want his name on it...) Plus it's just weird movie. I mean, the idea is almost identicle to JENNIFER'S BODY (I don't know which came first) and then the whole thing about werewolf musicians...is it because they are big Buffy fans (Oz and the girl werewolf were both musicians) or do they just figure that werewolfs are about primal/sexual energy so making them musicians makes sense? I don't know but it's a weird choice because it makes it so Buffy/Jennifer's Body.
Then the fact that they just didn't do anything with it. There aren't any cool things to talk about. JENNIFER'S BODY at least had a cool angle to the friendship and made an interesting parallel between the girl's sexual expereinces as normal vs possessed. And for a movie about werewolves and rock musicians -- which you would think would be the uber combination of sex and wild passion -- it was incredibly tame. There are a couple sex scenes, but they are basically done in that back-to-the-camera lame way a network tv show would do it. There are scenes that wouldn't make it on network, but still this felt more like a lame Scy-Fy movie than anything that the filmmakers were trying to make actually be good.
I could go on about all the problems -- from the directing to the cinematography to even the editing (which is really bad since the director had worked as an editor before!), but what's the point?
*** AVOID ***
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