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In France, the Porter family is slaughtered while camping in the woods and only Claire Porter (Stephanie Lemelin) survives seriously wounded. She reports that her husband Henry and her son Peter have been eaten alive by a strong man. The eremite Talan Gwynek (Brian Scott O'Connor) that lives in the woods with his mother is arrested by the police accused of being the killer.

The defense attorney Kate Moore (A.J. Cook) is assigned to defend Talan and she comes to the police station with her investigator Eric Sarin (Vik Sahay) and the animal expert Gavin Flemyng (Simon Quarterman) to interview Talan. The unwilling police inspector Klaus Pistor (Sebastian Roché) is sure that Talan is the murderer but has to let Kate and her team work. There is turmoil in the precinct and Gavin is scratched by Talan. Then they visit Talan's mother Mrs. Gwynek (Camelia Maxim) and they learn that Talan has a rare disease. Further, the government wants her lands to dispose nuclear waste and her husband has recently died in car accident. Soon Eric discloses that the death of Mr. Gwynek was suspicious and Pistor was in charge of the investigation. When Kate succeeds in sending Talan to a hospital for examination, she discovers the effects of Talan's disease and is the responsible for the next events.

The underrated "Wer" is one of the best werewolf movies I have ever seen. The graphic story is brutal and with magnificent special effects. The screenplay is concise, with good explanation for the situation. Maybe the greatest flaw is the manhunt in a full moon night, but how to convince the authorities that they are hunting a werewolf and not a human being? My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Sinistro – A Maldição do Lobisomem" ("Sinister – The Werewolf's Curse")

I had no expectations or any sort of anticipation for "Wer", aside from just merely hoping to be entertained by it. And now that I have seen it, I must admit that I am really glad that I did.

Why? Well, because "Wer" is not your average werewolf movie. And whereas many 'older' werewolf movies have been fairly stereotypical and pretty much following the same recipe, and then came "Twilight" and gave the werewolf very loose wrists, but we are getting back on track in the werewolf legacy now with "Wer".

It was refreshing to see a movie such as this that didn't have the stereotypical werewolf living hidden amongst the people he (or she) would prey upon. But having this sculpted and turning out the way it did was just what the genre needed.

I am not going to go much into the storyline here, because "Wer" is a movie that has to be seen and experienced. Written words will not really fully do it justice.

The storyline was good, and the movie progressed with a good pace, and the audience was always kept in the dark, but given just enough information piece by piece to let it dawn upon us what was really going on.

As for the effects, well given this is not a Hollywood CGI galore, but the effects were working as they were intended, straight and to the point. And that made the movie seem all the more real and animalistic (or perhaps bestial is a better term), compared to the many movies that rely solely on multi-million dollar CGI effects budgets.

The acting in the movie was good and people did really good jobs with their given roles and characters. And I must especially applaud Brian Scott O'Connor for his portrayal of Talan Gwynek. And while Sebastian Roché is a good actor, then the role of Klaus Pistor was a bit weak. The back-story for this character didn't really have the impact that I believe director William Brent Bell was looking for.

But "Wer" is a definite must watch if you enjoy werewolf movies, and if you are past the spray tan, buffed teenage stage that "Twilight" brought the werewolves back to.

"Wer" was good entertainment from the very beginning, and hold on now, the movie quickly picks up pace and goes from good to great in a very short time. "Wer" gets a well-deserved 7 out of 10 stars from me.

Since Twilight Werewolves, along with Vampires, were made a joke of. Timid and caring instead of the old fashioned rip-them-to-pieces killing machines. Fortunately "Wer" understands the true value of a Werewolf and will have fans of the sub genre rejoicing! The biggest plus is the vicious nature the film has and a solid build up with a mythology behind the main villain. I liked the way the mysterious Werewolf unfolded and it promised to a thrilling climax. Unfortunately, even though the pay off is incredibly violent, the movie starts getting a bit silly and loses all the control that the first half had. Mixing it with some pretty ordinary CGI effects, the second half is nowhere near as polished as the first, which ultimately hurts it, but thankfully there is enough to like about "Wer" to make it a recommended film!

Movie remains somewhat around the average mark despite being pretty dumb however then at the end it blows up. It feels like the director decides NOW IM GONNA TANK IT. Honestly, it seem deliberate. The bad guy,whos strength is physical combat is standing surrounded by special forces police at a distance of 10 meters or so. They get the go ahead take him out. What happens next? They start RUNNING at the bad guy WITH RIFLES in their hands. One by one. Not shooting him. RUNNING at him, to do what nobody knows, until contact and then when they reach him he kills them or throws them away. I dont know what else to say.

This film started out as a very satisfying murder mystery film with a few jump scares to keep the viewers attention, which isn't really even needed because its very interesting. The performances of the actors were great in the first half but didn't last with the exception of Simon Quarterman who plays Gavin in the film, he's a great throughout. But as I stated the last 40 minutes of the film were a let down to me. The film becomes a pretty generic found footage-esque slasher flick that isn't as interesting or unique as the team trying to figure out who or what did what was done like the premise in the first half.

Overall Id give the first half a 8/10 And the second half 5/10

First review I tried to be as vague as possible about the plot of the movie.

Nothing haunted, no ghosts, no experiment gone wrong, so, a new approach on this type of movies. Did I enjoy it? I sure did! And lets see why:

1. good execution. everything went lovely, the suspense grew more and more and I was definitely drawn into it. 2. characters, all worked out nicely, believable. 3. killshots, plenty and good. 4. effects, few at number, but they made them count. 5. scares, one or two, but the usual.

This is somewhat more of a "Trollhunter" style, but in the horror section, and they did make it just right, so, I will recommend it gladly to any found footage fan, horror fan or someone who wants to get his girlfriend scared, so she can cuddle up real nicely.

"Wer", a movie that won't find itself on everyone's lips, but the ones that will talk about it, are the lucky ones!

As a huge horror fan I did not expect very much from this movie but I was very surprised. Firstly not a massive budget yet it delivers in everything from atmosphere, reasonably decent acting, good sets, good story line. It reminded me of a movie that came right out the 80's UK Video Nasty List (In a Good Way!) The negatives - The Music/sound is over powering very much like the Cannibal movies from this time, some may like that. The lead Female was a complete miss casting, I think she may have earned the role from who she knew!!! (very pretty though) This is very worth any horror fan's viewing and deserves a huge round of applause for having a damn decent go at something a little different. It is not An American werewolf in London. It is more a dirty and gory affair than the previously mentioned with no laughs. Excellent Effort a solid 7-10

This is poor attempt at horror that starts off promising then falls back on the usual clichés, including loud noises to make you jump and stupid characters that walk alone into unlit buildings or do all their investigating at night or in the dark. I should have realised with the use of the hand-held shaky camera reminiscent of "Blair Witch" that it was going to be a simple rehash of previous movies. I turned it off before the end as I reached a stage of not caring what happened in the rest of the story, but felt let down as the plot had such potential with the medical angle it took on the Werewolf myth. The gruesome bits reminded me of the same genre/topic movies from the 1980's such as "An American Werewolf in London". So the bottom line is nothing new to see here!

This is just a different take on a werewolf story. It's modern and updated. It has a realistic feel. If you're sick of the 'same 'old/same 'old' when it comes to lycan movies than this might be worth it for you. It's gruesome, gory, violent and best of all...different. I appreciated the effort to keep a teen love story out of the mix...

So this French hairy guy gets arrested for multiple murders. An American lawyer living in France (A.J. Cook) is assigned to defend him. Together with her unlikely ex-boyfriend and her assistant (Lester from "Chuck") she sets out to prove he's innocent.

Slow-going to the point of boredom. Things don't really pick up until about fifty minutes in. Everybody is acting in that "oh look this is real, we don't have a script" way like it's all improvised on the spot. It's a poor choice because that requires far better actors than this has. The characters being very unlikable doesn't help. Does anybody really buy fugly Simon Quarterman as A.J. Cook's ex? I can't see that ever. For Cook's part, her acting is very "TV." Vik Sahay is awful. He's one of those guys that can only do comedy. Any attempt at doing serious material fails. His facial expressions, manner, line delivery all scream "don't take me seriously." The werewolf parts are underwhelming. At least he's a 'sort of' wolfman type of werewolf, which is better than the dog cop-out movies often use these days. But still not a very creative design. The last twenty minutes, in particular the werewolf fight, save the movie from total mediocrity. Still not worth recommending, though.

considering i am a horror fan i tend to be very critical of horror mostly because it's fun to find that gem amongst the rubble. but this movie was just shear brilliance. an awesome retelling of the werewolf story...if this had been seen by more people, it would have redefined and revived the werewolf genre. this movie would have done what the walking dead series did to zombies but on a movie scale. the violence and rage portrayed reminded me of the infected in 28 days later... but with hair all over. the story itself starts out with a thriller feel with a found footage style look. half the story is basically a mystery thriller until you hit the halfway point of the movie and thats when the fit hits the shan, and you are treated to fast paced non stop violent rage filled action for nearly the rest of the movie. i can say nothing bad about this movie, if your into horror ...treat yourself with this movie.

A werewolf in France. This is the story of a legal team trying to defend a man who is accused of three brutal murders. It takes awhile but when this thing gets going it's hella fun. Good scares, high tension, coupla scenes I watched through my fingers, what's not to love? In keeping with the truly modern horror there are two explanations for everything.

Wer (2013) is a movie I recently watched for free on Tubi (it leaves at the end of the month). The storyline for this picture is about a lawyer who has been assigned to a murder case of a man who killed people in the woods. She noticed some strange mannerisms with her client and begins suspecting there's more to him than meets the eye. This movie is directed by William Brent Bell (The Boy) and stars AJ Cook (Final Destination 2), Sebastian Roché (6 Underground), Simon Quarterman (The Devil Inside) and Stephanie Lemelin (The Boy). This movie is a bit uneven in terms of its storyline but it did have some entertaining aspects. I like how they did the werewolf and action elements. Some of the dialogue was off for me in some scenes, and the acting was mediocre, but I liked this overall. It's not a bad watch if you're looking for something new. I'd score this a 6.5/10.

When you hear 'low-budget werewolf movie' you automatically fear the worst, but 'Wer' is far from the cheap garbage you expect. In fact, I really enjoyed it. It plays to its strengths, doesn't try to be too fancy and the end result is a very decent werewolf horror with plenty of gore and scares.

I was surprised at just how well the movie is made. From the opening few scenes you get the impression that this is a high-end horror with a large budget, and it remains impressive throughout. I was also impressed with the acting and the movie is extremely well written and produced. It does a very good job at building up tension and creating suspense, becoming more brutal and violent as it goes along, but it isn't overdone like in a lot of other horror movies.

'Wer' is a relatively unknown movie but I was impressed. I would definitely recommend this werewolf horror.

"Wer" in an intriguing little horror film. When the movie starts, a young married couple and their four-year old son are camping in the French woods when they are savagely attacked by an animal. The husband and son are mutilated and killed, and the wife is badly hurt but survives. Based on her description that the animal "stood on two legs" the police abandon the initial theory of an animal attack and arrest a large, hairy man for the killing.

AJ Cook plays Kate Moore, an American lawyer living in France working with a "Project Innocence" style group. She is convinced that it had to be an animal attack, and that the accused -- a gentle giant of a man who appears to be suffering from a debilitating disease -- was indeed physically incapable of committing the crime. Along with her partner and an old friend expert on animal attacks she calls in to help, she investigates and, indeed, finds out that the local police have some secrets and there could be a reason why they might want to railroad her client. But as time goes on, she uncovers some even more horrifying secrets about everyone involved...

I'm going to avoid any spoilers about what these secrets are even though almost every other review will spill them, because things don't proceed the way you'd expect -- the film definitely "zigs" when you think it will "zag" -- and that's one of its strengths. The acting is universally good (especially AJ Cook -- AJ makes us root *for* the heroine; this woman DEFINITELY needs to work more) and there are some excellent gore effects. The movie also takes its subject seriously and tries to deal with the situation realistically, including trying to explain and dealing with the aftermath of the events.

It's not all good, though -- the decision to locate the film is France is really confusing. It results in long stretches where people simply speak English when it makes no sense. For example, Kate obviously speaks fluent French but when she talks to her client, they speak in English. There are scenes when people speak English even though every single person talking is either French or fluent in French, and they are, of course, in France. And there are news reports on television in English. It just seemed very discombobulating and didn't add anything to the story.

Also, it sort of goes off the rails at the end -- after all the good build-up the "big climax" will induce eye-rolls. But overall, this is a good, well-made horror flick that treats it subject seriously and is worth checking out.

I liked the setting of this movie and the building tension. It was a nice build up and the werewolf theme is all back again. The sad thing about this movie is: In the end authorities want to finish of the "bald beast" but instead of the man on the ground use their rifles, they are attacking it with bare hands and of course lose, so that the ending can be more satisfying. We see that a lot in movies, it is really really sad to see and it is a waste of a beautiful told story that could be like worthy the believe. We see it in so many movies that are made in the USA: a bad guy can easily finish of the sympathetic person but waits long enough or makes a dumb move so the good guy can prevail. Gullable.I would give real money to see a Amerikan movie made in European style.I could give the series of Game of Thrones a real thumbs up, lovable heroes (except Tirion) die.

I would rate this movie a 8 if the ending was not so very very poor.

A found-footage werewolves film that's scientifically thrilling and violent despite its flaws. There are some gruesome GORES here and there plus lots of violent kills but it's really fast and kind of dark so you won't see lots of gut or blood splattering in your face as you might expected. As the film was shot in the style of found footage and a plot that focused on the scientific element, it did bring some new idea and concept to the genre turning this into more of a crime/thriller one. The SCARE here is mostly jumpy ones as the make-up effects here tend to keep the character in its human looks rather than turning into the werewolves completely. Overall, Wer may have some flaws but still dare to take risk in giving a twist to the genre into a more scientific crime/thriller/horror film in a realistic way as well as filming it in found footage style, all of which work really quite well together here. >>B-<<

I am unsure how some of these ratings are so high.

7/10?

Did we watch the same film?

At best this film is a 5 and that is only because they ATTEMPTED to bring something fresh to the tired and overworked werewolf genre.

The ideas presented here are almost fresh and they do get you interested in the characters and events surrounding those characters...almost.

The problems start to show up about 3/4 of the way into the film where you can clearly see the cast and crew have grown tired of their own project and are just going through the motions in an effort to get the film finished.

Without spoiling anything for those who haven't seen it, the final "transformation(?)" is very, very lackluster and overly dramatic.

The final "fight" makes absolutely ZERO sense and is so full of logic holes and obvious grabs for sympathy that it was almost painful to watch.

And some of the things that one specific character does to himself in a fit of...what?...rage? Depression?

Yeah, ok, you're upset...we get it...but really? Your choice to express that emotion is.....wow! Ok. I guess

It's a decent watch if you just want to pass the time.

It is not revolutionary or thought provoking. It is not very original or fresh.

And to be honest there's only one really likable character in the whole film.

Oh, oh, oh... one last thing: Absolutely some of the dumbest and most frustratingly arrogant cops I've ever seen in film.

When "Twilight" saga ruined the horror of werewolf, thanks to "Wer" for successfully bringing werewolf-film back to right track : brutal, terrifying and thrilling. Despite of predictable plot from the middle until the end film, "Wer" is unexpectedly excellent and interesting to watch, with half of this story enriches by the mystery element. If you think found-footage film's always being horrible in plot and execution such as The Devil Inside or Paranormal Activity's franchise, believe me, "Wer" is different case. I think "Wer" is the best found-footage film since "Chronicles" hits box office in 2012.

At the end, I must admit that "Wer" makes werewolves scary again, brings it become the best werewolf film since "An American Werewolf In London". I gave it 9 stars out of 10.

I have never watched a movie that nose dived so rapidly at the end, do yourself a favor and stop at 50 minute.