Carnivore: Werewolf of London

Explicit sex scenes with nice music. Werewolf was roaming around the house. No phone signal. Just horrible acting. No story here. Move along.

What happens when you have a budget of about 100 dollars? You get the worst werewolf movie I have ever seen.

The werewolf costume looked like someone just threw on an oversized bear rug. The writing was so atrocious one has to ask why anyone even took the time to write something so bad and then think it was good enough to make into a movie.

The acting was god awful. I wonder if either lead was embarrassed seeing themselves in this mess. I wouldn't even want this on my resume'. I would outright deny it was me in the movie claiming it must be a lookalike. Neither character had any redeeming qualities and you just want them both to die not for being stupid but to end the horrific acting.

Anyone with aspirations of making it as a writer, director, or an actor need only watch this because by midway you'll know you can do much better.

A sex hungry couple leave London for a break in the country, renting out a cottage in the middle of nowhere. Problem is, in addition to the unfriendly owner, there is a guy lurking outside wearing a laughable hairy costume. Well, it's meant to be a werewolf but looks more like something off an amateur pantomime set. The DVD cover is incredibly misleading. For a start the vast majority of the film takes place in the countryside, not London. Secondly it says "very similar to Dog Soldiers". I think not. It's completely the other end of the spectrum. " Brutal gore shots ". More like very cheap looking effects, blink and you'll miss them. The script is terrible. As is the acting. Why do British film makers think it necessary to have American characters? Sadly the actress who plays Abi couldn't do a convincing American accent if her life depended on it. Partly why I scored this so low, it really irritates me. I picked this up cheap from the supermarket and didn't expect much from it. But my advice is save your time and money, this rubbish is possibly the worst werewolf movie that I have seen.

Why is it that most werewolf movies are terrible? The concept is solid so why can so few creators actually make something even remotely original or entertaining?

Carnivore: Werewolf of London tells the story of a couple who rent a cottage in the middle of nowhere and come under attack from a werewolf. That's basically it.

I don't know why they called this Werewolf of London, I can only assume it was some desperate attempt at cashing in on the name of the somewhat more famous film of a similiar name.

With sound editing that left me scratching my head, a plot so generic a 10yr old could have written it and very little actual content this is truly a mess.

Oh did I mention how bad the werewolf looks? Now I prefer practical sfx and am glad it wasn't some poor cgi embarassment but if you're going to stick a guy in a suit then at least make it look decent. This werewolf looks like a guy in a gorrilla costume but with a supermarket wolf mask on instead.

Bad bad stuff.

The Good:

Erm, setting wasn't bad I suppose

The Bad:

Some of the worst sound editing I've ever heard

Werewolf looks terrible

No originality at all

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Jumping into a bathtub provides you protection from werewolves

Rolling pins are effective weapons agaibst lycans

I'm getting really tired of being let down by werewolf movies... but I'll keep watching them and hoping for a good one. This certainly is not that. Fans of the genre, please don't waste your time...the werewolf is literally an unaltered Party City costume. The mask is like $30 I think. I didn't even buy the mask for my own costume because it was so bad. It truly baffles me that someone thought it would be good enough for a movie. It's an insult to the audience and to some of the people who worked on that film. I work in the industry, so I can see there was actual effort put into some areas of the production. People who make movies in the genre please take note: You CANNOT make a good werewolf movie IF you DON'T HAVE a GOOD WEREWOLF. If you don't, then please don't even continue.