Lycan

There is this cable TV movie feel to it. Like a low-budget amateur vibe without the ironic cheese factor. You know you are in trouble when the opening credits have to say "Starring" before listing the cast.

The acting is college-level at its best, SyFy-caliber at its worst - not very convincing. Rather underwhelming with unstable accents and misplaced pathos. The lead actress is dreadful. Everyone seems to have taken tranquilizers every day of shooting.

The plot was a snore. Like one of the characters, I was more concerned about the jeopardy to their academic records than the supposed peril they were facing in the woods. The whole 80's thing just didn't really work. It could have been set whenever.

Oh, the score. There is this sparse piano thing THROUGHOUT the entire movie - but it is more like a touching and tender leitmotif from a sappy Hallmark or Lifetime romance story. It is so not suspense-inducing. So not horror. It really drove me nuts. Some of the songs were decent.

Overall, I didn't really like it.

I'm not really sure where to start with this one. I'm not even sure if the filmmakers even knew what they were making as it comes out as a werewolf movie that follows traditional slasher formula, which doesn't work.

Some teens go into a forest, one of them (and it's real obvious who) has a claw thing, then at some point some of them die in confusing fashion. In between everything is bad: acting, effects, dialogue, editing, directing, even the music choices seem off.

Overall this movie is nearly unwatchable, there are constraints that come with a low budget but you can still write good lines and have them delivered well and produce some type of movie. Here there is no attempt to do any of that and it just seems like a one-take affair where everything was cobbled together and thrown out there despite the apparent bad quality. It's just not worth the time.

I love a good werewolf movie. Sadly, there just aren't that many made anymore. When I came across this and saw the 6.4 rating I was encouraged, especially since the plot sounded like a cool take on the legend. I watched the trailer and saw that it wasn't just some random student film but an honest to goodness movie. Then I watched it.

No werewolves. None. Zero. Zilch. No action of any kind for more than 1/2 the movie. No gore to speak of.

The movie is not completely devoid of worth, so anyone who says it's the worst thing they've ever seen is disingenuous or lying. That said, it was rather boring, confusing at times, and just all around blah. I mean, no werewolves? In a werewolf movie?

I would not recommend this film, even to the most diehard of lycanthropy fans.

NOT a Werewolf Movie. That's the important thing for me here. I was expecting and trying to watch a werewolf movie. Other than that, it wasn't terrible.

Very predictable, very poor story, no thrill, actors can't act.