Dire Wolf

Ok so I love these kind of low budget... small town America films..

they are predictable and fun

and I really enjoyed this... it's just the kind of escapism you need sometimes.. light hearted blood and gore entertainment...

with plot holes and far fetched scenarios... it's definatly popcorn time

A lot of things I liked about this movie! Sheriff Parker has an Adrian Monk-like psychological disorder that was subtle enough to be funny. Buck Rogers played the general. It had a pretty common story, but that can be forgiven. But, the unrealistic fake agents and hokey monster were just too much for me to not regret watching the movie. To me, a rating of 5 means it's worth watching once. Even though I liked the actors and enjoyed some of the scenes, enough was just too poorly done to think of it as a 5.

Dire Wolf is a genuine thinkpiece exploring the animalistic nature of humanity at its core, as evidenced with the Warden's line "you must have nine lives, Amber". Perhaps the dire wolf in the movie is what lies at the center of all of us?

Though the film had a small budget, Fred Olen Ray truly makes the best of it in Dire Wolf. Though some may see Olen Ray's patented eye-level- throughout-the-whole-movie camera technique as laziness and lacking any creative camera use, the beauty of the movie lies in the simplistic camera angles to establish a constant familiarity throughout the film. This avant garde approach to filmography is nothing short of great artistic expression on Olen Ray's behalf.

Another controversial, yet triumphant, move in the film is the unveiling of the wolf in the first ten minutes. With bold candor, the filmmakers sought to cast aside the conventions of suspense and action greats such as Predator, Tremors, and Signs. Who wants to wait for the creature-of- the-feature to be revealed in a suspenseful matter when you can see it clearly in broad daylight as soon as you can sit down?

A must see movie- I would recommend this to anyone. If this movie does not catapult the careers of its actor, there is no justice in Hollywood. Fred Olen Ray's magnum opus should not go unnoticed.

1st watched 10/26/2021 - (Dir-Fred Olen Ray): Very bad genetically messed up wolf horror movie. It starts in a lab where a guard and a night-time operator share a laugh or two while keeping an eye on a growing creature locked-up(for now). A preposterous beginning for a pretty much complete waste of time as a total movie. The creature escapes (whoops!) and goes on a killing spree devouring innards with every victim. And than, of course, you have a handful of crazy folks who want the creature kept alive for supposedly, the greater good. Of course, this is a government program trying to grow a perfect killing machine from an old-time wolf and a human. Maxwell Caulfield plays a straight-laced, country sheriff in the town where this is happening. There are a couple of funny bits where his obsessive compulsive acts get the best of him(similar to Monk - who portrays this much better, in my opinion). Blake Griffith plays his foster child and is kind of a park ranger who has a thing for one of the girls in peril. The gang tries to work together with some fake FBI agents hired by the government to capture this animal. This is one of those movies where it was easy to predict what was happening(which makes for a boring experience). Directed and co-written with the star Maxwell Caulfield by a kind of trash film-maker in Fred Olen Ray - so, what did I expect, I guess. Anyway, definetly one to bypass unless you just like seeing innards being ripped out over and over again.

Hey, it's a low budget creature feature. In that context it's pretty entertaining.