Lycanthrope

C'mon, seriously? What exactly does it take to make a movie? Having names like Carradine and Mitchum attached helps, I suppose but this half witted effort really pushes the limit. It is truly hard to find the words to describe this disaster. Initially thinking it might be a comedy, I thought that it might just work. The attractive actresses would've helped. But nope, they were playing it for real. The intrepid cast of "scientists" and "government agents " set off on a beautiful spring day (the trees are just leafing out) into the lovely open woodlands of Ohio? WVA?, TN?, er, THE AMAZON RAIN FOREST... Seriously. The producers couldn't even manage to at least make it to FL or Louisiana to find some half way believable jungle!

It gets worse from here.

LYCANTHROPE takes our fear of the Ozone destruction one step further. A medical term LYCANTHROPY means a man that thinks he's a wolf. The ozone has caused a member of a scientific team to think he's a werewolf.

Robert Carradine (Revenge of the Nerds) stars as a government agent investigating the events in the Amazon. His partner (and relief humor) is played by Michael Winslow (Police Academy). The film drags at first but picks up momentum as the Lycanthrope begins to kill the scientific team one by one.

Strong cast with an outstanding performance by newcomer Dalia Garcia as Rosary (the Amazon guide) and Carradine.

I can't believe that this film currently has a 4+ rating as it is one of the worst films I've ever seen - and I've seen loads of low-budget genre films.

As has been pointed out by another reviewer this film has no budget, doesn't even pretend to be set where it says it is, has a very half-assed cop-out explanation for not featuring any of the titular creatures and features some astonishingly bad acting. Worst of all, it's cosmically boring, with endless shots of either the sun or moon, people wandering through "the amazon" or sitting around in rooms spouting terrible dialogue.

Everyone involved should be thoroughly ashamed of this complete waste of time.

Just to let everyone know, this film was actually made in Nashville TN. Most of the inside scenes were actually filmed in the basement of Watkins Film School. I know this because I was a student there at the time of filming. Even on of my editing teachers was involved with this project. They used the Cumberland river as the Amazon and most of the so called jungle scenes was filmed at Percy Warner Park. All the students were hoping for a screening of this movie when it was done at the college but apparently it was so bad that they refused to show it. I looked for years for a copy of this and then finally found it on the Roku. The film is incoherent and half of the filmed scenes are out of focus. I'm assuming that Robert Carradine and Michael Winslow did this movie for the free Nashville hot chicken because it looks like nothing else was available.