Carnivore: Werewolf of London

I'm getting really tired of being let down by werewolf movies... but I'll keep watching them and hoping for a good one. This certainly is not that. Fans of the genre, please don't waste your time...the werewolf is literally an unaltered Party City costume. The mask is like $30 I think. I didn't even buy the mask for my own costume because it was so bad. It truly baffles me that someone thought it would be good enough for a movie. It's an insult to the audience and to some of the people who worked on that film. I work in the industry, so I can see there was actual effort put into some areas of the production. People who make movies in the genre please take note: You CANNOT make a good werewolf movie IF you DON'T HAVE a GOOD WEREWOLF. If you don't, then please don't even continue.

I'm surprised that this isn't X-rated. This only gets 3 stars because of the music playing during... THAT scene. It made me laugh way too hard at that part.

Unfortunately, the renderings took away from my enjoyment of the rest of the movie. This feels more like an experiment in film making than a horror movie. This movie needed more practical effects and more monster, and less time spent with the unrelatable characters.

The scene transitions (both timing and method) also felt as if they contributed toward a narrative that works better on paper than on the screen. This might even work a bit better on a stage (ignore the sexual parts...) than on the screen. The screenwriter should be sure to properly adapt to the medium being used to portray the story. This is probably the producers' fault as well when they were assembling the final narrative after shooting.

In short: relate the soundtrack to the action, make the characters relatable, use proper practical effects (see listings in the trivia/goofs/continuity/anachronisms), and write for the screen.

That was the worst werewolf film i've ever seen.

Idk why this filme exists.

A sex hungry couple leave London for a break in the country, renting out a cottage in the middle of nowhere. Problem is, in addition to the unfriendly owner, there is a guy lurking outside wearing a laughable hairy costume. Well, it's meant to be a werewolf but looks more like something off an amateur pantomime set. The DVD cover is incredibly misleading. For a start the vast majority of the film takes place in the countryside, not London. Secondly it says "very similar to Dog Soldiers". I think not. It's completely the other end of the spectrum. " Brutal gore shots ". More like very cheap looking effects, blink and you'll miss them. The script is terrible. As is the acting. Why do British film makers think it necessary to have American characters? Sadly the actress who plays Abi couldn't do a convincing American accent if her life depended on it. Partly why I scored this so low, it really irritates me. I picked this up cheap from the supermarket and didn't expect much from it. But my advice is save your time and money, this rubbish is possibly the worst werewolf movie that I have seen.

I have very forgiving standards when it comes to werewolf movies. Usually it's only the ones where the filmmaker's cast themselves as badass werewolves that I get really offended. But wow, did this one really test me.

The title alone should tell you what you're in for; trying to ape off the best werewolf movie ever.

Even without confirming it in the trivia, you can tell this was shot on a rental property they weren't allowed to damage. The premise of being trapped in a house with a werewolf outside loses all tension when it's painfully obvious the filmmaker's aren't allowed to even break a window.

The tension is further deflated when you quickly realize there is no supporting cast. Of the dozen credited actors, more than half of the them are only in the final scene of the movie. The vast majority of the film is just two people and a werewolf, which means there's no one to pick off and kill.

There are a handful of decent horror shots, but those are easily outnumbered by dead ends where the film making is foreshadowing things that don't pay off, and loose ends of potentially interesting character drama that never goes anywhere.

There's next to no blood until the last 5 minutes of the movie. Until the final 10 minutes of the movie, I don't think anyone even raises their voice.

This movie has no worth other than to see how not to write a werewolf movie. If you do happen to watch this and chase it with Bad Moon; a werewolf movie with a short running time and a tiny cast that is actually good.