The Snarling

An English village endures the filming of a Zombie film on its doorstep. As if that were not enough, locals are found dead, their bodies torn apart.

This is a low budget horror comedy, and glories in it. Silly, funny, with some good performances and some reasonable jokes - some work better than others, which is fair enough - and it actually makes sense.

Director and writer Pablo Raybould isn't interested in anything too sophisticated, preferring rather to dish out a few giggles during the 83 minute run-time. My score is 6 out of 10.

It's a (very) low budget British comedy that happens to include a werewolf. The title, apparently a ham-fisted allusion to The Howling, is typical of this movie's level of sophistication. It's not scary and it's not trying to be - which is fine: there are a lot of excellent comedies that utilize horror conventions. The problem is that this one simply isn't funny. You get the sense they were going for talky, dry British humor and deadpan snark, but it all comes across as stale and forced.

It has the same basic premise as 2022's Wolf Manor (or Scream of the Wolf depending on where you're watching) which, by no means excellent, is a vast improvement over this 2018 effort.

A really good independent UK horror film, filled with some good laugh moments as well as the humour that is quintessentially British. The work on the production value of this film is clear, despite the low budget that would have been associated with it - and certainly worth a watch.

Well, what to say after watching The Snarling? First of all there are the usual fake reviews, but that we learned to live with on IMDb. This is no way close to a gem or masterpiece like some reviewers try to make you believe. It's a low budget (very low) werewolf movie from the UK. It's not supposed to be just horror, but more of a comedy, and there is nothing wrong with that except that in this case the humor is most of the time nowhere to be seen. There are a couple funny moments (a very little bit funny) but most of the time you wonder who wrote that kind of lame script. The cast is divided in two, on one hand you have a couple of actors who did it once before without too much success and than you have the other actors (if you can call them that) that they got out of the local pub, with zero experience and it shows. The werewolf creature, you have to wait a long time to see it, and there is a reason why, they just got a mask from the local Halloween store, put it on somebody and asked him to strut around a little bit. It's really really bad. They could at least spend a little bit of money on that, I don't know maybe by trying to raise some money at a car booth or so. Don't waste your time on this one, there are dozens of better werewolf movies.

I loved this, it's a very, very British comedy/horror, leaning way more in the comedy direction. There's not an ounce of fat anywhere in the 80 mins, the story is tighter than The Hulks speedos, every line, scene and expression has purpose and adds to the whole. The stand out for me was the hapless D.I, played by Pablo Raybould, who also wrote and directed, a fact that usually doesn't mean much to me but on this occasion I thought deserved a mention. The icing on the already sugar laden cake is the Werewolf in London references, very blatant and in no way looking for comparisons, more a doff of the cap I think. Don't let the cover fool you, this isn't a horror film, it's a fangtastically (sorry), funny movie with a werewolf in it.