Blood Moon

To start I love the cast, I've seen all of them in various TV shows and movies and I commend them on hiding their accents (most were English) The atmosphere was good, the dialog well done and the acting pretty good. A well made B-grade horror set in the old west, I'd watch it again.

Well, while this 2014 "Blood Moon" hardly is going to move any boundaries for the werewolf genre, it still turned out to be a watchable and entertaining enough movie for what it was. Sure, there are better werewolf movies available, but "Blood Moon" wasn't actually as bad as I had anticipated.

The storyline in the movie is pretty straight forward, for better or worse. That, unfortunately, means that there are no surprises in store for the audience. So it feels like the movie just fairly quickly settled into a monotonous pace and trotted onwards.

There is enough action in the movie to liven up the moments when you are about to drift off and your attention start to falter. But, for me at least, it just wasn't enough to fully keep my attention. I actually fell asleep during the last 20 minutes or so. Did I go back to watch what I missed? No, the movie was adequate, but it wasn't good enough for me to do that.

The make-up, prosthetics and such were adequate, but not really top of the line. The werewolf was adequate, but hardly the best seen in the werewolf genre. The wounds and such were fair and adequately made.

Now the setting of the movie was good. There is just something about that Western period, so having a werewolf movie set in the late 1880s was just great. That worked quite well for me.

All in all, "Blood Moon" is adequate entertainment for what it turned out to be. However, it just wasn't outstanding enough to make itself memorable. As such, I am rating the movie a mediocre five out of ten stars.

I don't know any of the players or production crew (except Corey Johnson and Anna Skellern, a bit) , but this film SHINES! Oh, yes, it is definitely worth your time!

The dialogue is excellent, the story moves, the players are all topnotch and the cinematography is worthy of a Hollywood production. I've seen big budget flops that couldn't patch this effort.

Shaun Dooley (Calhoun) sparks memories of Ben Johnson - he plays the cool hand very well with minimal cheese. Corey Johnson and Raffaello Degruttola (the Norton brothers) put just enough "yuck" into the bad guys. Eleanor Matsuura (Black Deer) and Amber Jean Rowan (Sarah Norman) play convincing female roles, while George Blagden (Jake Norman) and Jack Fox (Wade) play lawmen you will believe. But best - and worst - is Anna Skellern's portrayal of Marie: best because she is so beautiful and hot as an old time saloon matron and worst because... well, spoiler. Just watch.

Oh, and I believe the creature is a windigo. One of my favorite North American monsters!!!

Blood Moon is a hackneyed B grade werewolf flick with a Western flavour.

The premise behind this film has in one form or another been done before.This is by no means the worst interpretation but its by no means the best either.

The acting is, by and large, of a very good standard. That said the actors are constrained by the, at times, cheesy stereotypical cowboy characterizations, replete with lots of gormless gun twirling. Even worse again, are the tame and tacky monster effects, that are more comical than scary.

Blood Moon had the makings of a half decent horror if only more care had been taken with the special effects and more common sense had been injected into the script. As it stands, this film rates a five out of ten from me.

151005: For a low budget film; a surprisingly good film. There's not many glaring holes in the special effects because they keep them so well hidden through the use of lighting, movement and angles (see extra features). Some decent acting from this group, Shaun Dooley (Calhoon) being the weakest in my opinion. Other than that annoying pistol Calhoon carried, happy with this lost cost, low budget western. Can't say that for most I end up buying. As an added bonus, it even had me jumping at times (turn the volume up).