American Werewolf

As life goes on in a small town, a sheriff trying to find what happened to his wife's mysterious disappearance years ago is disturbed when a slew of similar disappearances and deaths occur to the locals around him and sets out to find the cause of everything before the town is killed.

This was a highly disappointing and underwhelming genre effort. Among the few good features here is a solid and enjoyable starting point that manages to provide the kind of instigating factor for the investigation. With the whole affair starting with the wife's attack in the car that he has no way of preventing and featuring the kind of small-town hospitality years after to keep him in the job to catch the criminal responsible which becomes quite topical with the current attacks on townsfolk, the ability to build up a solid whodunnit mystery over the series of crimes being committed in the town makes for a fine setup here. Realizing it's a werewolf and starting to prepare for the occasion with some solid defensive tactics to protect the rest of the town as the final attacks are decent if not spectacular efforts with the low-budget limitations here keeping this one intriguing enough as it goes along. There are so many issues here beyond that as those low-budget limitations are at the center of it all. The fact that the budget here never allows for any kind of genuine attacks to take place on-screen where so many of them are based on a person reacting to being approached by a grunting, growling figure in a tinted vision to indicate something is happening but then switches to the aftermath to see what happened to the victim. This removes any potential suspense or action from the film not having any genuine genre fare present here, and with everything being wrapped in a low-budget haze of flimsy production values, special effects, and utterly nonsensical storylines for what's going on with so much of the film trying to paint him as the culprit it's hard to get invested in anything the film has a lot of issues.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.

I started watching this movie which was released in 2024, (keep that In mind folks). CGI where? Horrible acting like not even trying to act at all, horrible camera work and terrible lighting. Don't get me started on the mic they used, it seemed like one of those comedy movies or the Blair witch project that showed the camera being used. I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone seriously interested in werewolf movies because this is a mockery and frankly a little bit sad. Did I mention the fact that I paid $3 to rent it? There were no trailers annd I figured a movie made in 2024 wouldn't be so pitiful. Overall I'd say their budget was $10.

"The worst movie ever made" is a term that gets overused on this platform, but this might really be it. It's like something a few kids wrote, directed and shot on a camcorder in an afternoon for a class project. The acting is wooden and atrocious, as if none of the performers have ever rehearsed or been on camera before. The script is clunky and expositional; the attempted humor is cringeworthy. This isn't even competent enough to qualify as so-bad-it's-good entertainment; it's more like being forced by pushy parents to watch a 70-minute home video of their kid's lousy dance recital or something.

The only mysteries are: how this ever got released, even as free content on a free streaming service; and whether the cover art cost more than the rest of the production combined.

The art is deceiving, this movie is so bad it feels like someone released it as a prank. Every single scene is 10-20 seconds too long and it has unnecessary scenes added in all over the place, It could have easily been a short film. The whole thing is atrocious, the lighting, the writing all of it's awful, it's like they hired people from Craigslist to act in it, filmed it in the it makes me not feel bad about any of my art I've ever made. Middle class Musk is the only thing that made this a laughable watch, but I skipped over a bunch for the awful werewolf reveal. I've seen better movies in my high school film class.

This film is made by the same director as the one who did Lycan Colony. This one is both better than that film and worse at the same time. It has a bit better looking werewolf and the plot is less goofy; however, Lycan Colony has a bit more going on and therefore does not get as boring as this one does.

The story has a man who looks like Santa taking his wife to the middle of nowhere for a drink on their anniversary. She is abducted and seemingly killed by some beast in the woods. Flash ten years later and Santa has been reelected sheriff and killings begin taking place. Santa and his deputy, who looks like Elon Musk with a neck beard, teams up with a guy with a YouTube channel named Raven Nevermore to try and find the beast!

The acting is bad, but a bit better than Lycan Colony. The sheriff does alright, but the deputy is out of place and the YouTube guy is extremely hammy. Once again, the werewolf looks okay, but you barely see it in this film.

So the film is a bit boring and one wishes there is some more gore, but there is a twist or two to kind of make things interesting. No attractive girls in this one at all, no one cute like the girl who climbs the side of houses in Lycan Colony. So nothing good at all, just a very cheaply made werewolf film with a few surprises I guess.