WOLF MOON (formerly DARK MOON RISING) (a review)

WOLF MOON (formerly DARK MOON RISING) (a review)

A werewolf movie starring Maria Conchita Alonso, Max Ryan (DEATH RACE, THE BOX), Sid Haig, Chris Mulkey (DREAMSCAPE and about 100 others), Ginny Weirick.

The story: farmer's daughter falls for a troubled drifter who it turns out is a werewolf. Lots of talking. The sheriff likes the girl's father. Lots of standing around. Troubled werewolf guy has to kill his father (who he doesn't know) to break the curse. The shariff starts hunting for the werewolf. More talking. Eventually the dad shows up, walking, taking his time. He and the son face off...and talk.

Was it good?

No. It was worse than bad...it was BORING. Maybe they were trying to make it more of a character piece because there isn't much plot here, but even as a character piece there isn't anything going on. Let's compare:

In AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON a guy is attacked and sees his bf killed in front of him, he has nightmares where his friend tells him he has to kill himself or he will turn into a werewolf, meanwhile he falls in love with the nurse, but then he actually doesn't turn into a werewolf and now he realizes that he has to kill himself or (1) be haunted by the people he has killed and (2) he will continue to change and kill again and again. Tragic ending.

In WOLF MOON drifter and girl fall in love (for some reason...they both are good looking but there's nothing else between them), except the guy is a werewolf. He already knows this. He isn't really trying to do anything about it. He just mopes. And changes and kills things, including attacking the girl who doesn't freak out (I guess because she has seen TWILIGHT?) and then they try to get help. By then he's killed lots of livestock and stuff, but still not really doing anything different or trying to stay away from the girl or anything.

I mean, even just from a one P synopsis you can see how boring it is. Maybe they were trying to do a werewolf version of TWILIGHT with the supernatural romance, but the romance is handled so poorly...they meet, they fall in love...no tension, no nothing. In T- they struggle to connect and then when they do he reveals he is a vampire and then they explore the good side of being a vampire (they are really good at baseball) but just when everything looks great other vampires come to kill her (oh no!). Here's there's just nothing.

That's all I have to say: BORING.

*** AVOID ****