Howlers

Moviecut—Howlers

To a point anyways. Don't come in the xpecting huge unreal special effects when u know damn well if someone is gonna put 10s of millions into a film it's gonna be plastered everywhere and their stars are gonna promote non-stop pre-release. So understanding that this is gonna be a B movie I actually enjoyed it. Why only a 6 then, we'll because I try to scale my reviews and I've just seen better B movies but by no means is a 6 bad, it's just average to a little above. It reminded Me of a typical movie you'd see on chiller or sci-fy. Not that plot has anything similarities but I'd put movie on par with yellow brick road, roadkill, lake dead, the graves, population 436 or 431 or something close. Not the same plot like I said but if you enjoyed those I feel like This is something you could watch and enjoy. Obv could be better but that's why it's a 6, cuz it obv could be a helluva a lot worst and I've seen movies that have been. Hate peeps who try to pick movies apart at every level like they would be kubrick, Polansky, hitchkock or de Palma begind the camera. Or they think they the next Ebert. If someone really wanted they could pick any movie apart or come up wit ways to improve it because a person knows what they like: A person customizing something for themselves is nothing, try customizing it for millions of finicky people. Great horror movies are so very hard to find. And horror and it's cousins are by far my fav genre. I don't care if it's a slasher, more sci-fy, haunting ones, or monster movies, I can do em all. If your not really big into monster movies why bother when their are millions of other movies out there. But if you give every movie a fair shake, u can do a lot worst.

I saw this on Prime under the title HIGH MOON. It's a low budget indie flick with a budget a bit bigger than some, but not big enough to make this a good movie. The plot is quite interesting and involves a werewolf gang in the Wild West who end up getting entombed and released to wreak havoc in the present day; the good news is that a hero gunslinger is also unearthed to fight them. Shades of the Hong Kong flick THE ICEMAN COMETH here, but not nearly as good. The werewolf masks look like Halloween wear although they throw in some gore to liven it up a bit. It doesn't work very well.

So the plot is that a werewolf hunter in the Old West kills the last six werewolves,before being killed by a mystic figure. 160 later, they are all resurrected in the modern era in a modern Texas town with an extra dose of melodrama. The Hunter teams up with the local sheriff, while the werewolves take over a biker gang and immediately learn how to ride motorcycles. Some nice action pieces, a lot of fun as a movie.

I was having quite a good time watching this SILLY movie. I was actually reminded of The Dead Don't Die on account of many of the characters being dorky small town cops and other people, plus the presence of an otherworldly character who knows all about the enemy, but shockingly I enjoyed this one more. That's possibly because I really thought The Dead Don't Die was going to be cool, thanks to Jim Jarmusch having directed Dead Man, an excellent black and white western/comedy starring Johnny Depp, but it really wasn't, while I fully expected this one to be trash, and it is! Just do what I did, which was kick back with my wife and giggle at the silly, corny, SO cheap werewolf action. This is NOT a good movie, have fun with it!

"High Moon" not to be confused with "Full Moon High" starts off in 1861 as a werewolf western and quickly moves to the present. Colt (Chad Michael Collins) is the Van Helsing of werewolves taught by an inter-dimensional Ming Dynasty Chinese master. They really didn't have to add this. He kills werewolves William Price and his gang in the first scene. A flood causes all the graves to wash up and everyone to resurrect. Colt attempts to convince modern-day folks he is from the past and werewolves are coming for the residents of Temple Wells. To add to the drama, the sheriff's wife is having an affair with the despicable mayor. The film has Colt, the main character be interesting and utilized the time differences to make some mild humor. For some reason, I was not turned off by the silliness of the plot in a film not designed to be a spoof. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Garbage start to finish. Since time travel does not exist at this point so what people out of the past would act like when introduced to them but the way the werewolf's acted when seeing the magic that is a motorcycle is definitely not how people would act. I realize after the stunning success of sharknado we have been drowning in craptacular abominations and mashups that come from the fever dreams of the ghost of Ed Wood. One decent movie has come from this nonsense Abraham Lincoln versus Zombies. Two things from this movie are interesting, one if they make a movie about Brett Favre the sheriff looks a lot like him so thats something and strangely another former NFL QB had found another career as Ken Stabler wasn't bad as the coroner which is a neat trick as he died several years ago. The only reason to watch this would be for you to see if I was right. The closest comparison to what you see in this movie is a short lived 15 min cartoon calls Axe Cop I watched Axe Cop and absolutely hated it and while talking to somebody about it is was told the entire story of Axe Cop and I immediately went back to watch it and it was awesome. The story behind that show is a mid 20s cartoonist and his (I think) 6 year old nephew made the cartoon and this little guy came up with the characters, the story and all the dialogue while his uncle did the cartoon itself if you can check it out. Why do I bring that up, well everything that the little guy came up with is far more believable than this garbage and that includes monsters on the moon and a cop truck capable of interstellar travel while also being a time machine. That is how stupid this is.

Seems most reviewers these days think every movie has to have a billion dollar budget to be watchable. I found this to be a fairly decent movie. The werewolves were a bit different than usual and make up could have been a little better. A couple of actors were a little wooden. I liked the plot it was different. I personally didn't care for the ending but it was a very watchable movie.

Now i like Ray Harryhausen films using old-hat stop motion animation so whilst films don't need ultra brilliant digital effects and retro has its place, there is a fine line between retro and pants. This movie has effects that are pants, so much so that the film is ruined. Werewolf masks looking like budget store Halloween dress up have no place in 2018 and frankly made what was otherwise an OK film a painful experience to watch. OK action scenes, OK but contrived plot, OK cast. Its all serviceable but those wolf effects... Man what on earth was the director thinking allowing that nonsense on screen. Sorry to all those involved with the movie but it was embarrassing to look at those cheap masks and impossible to enjoy the film.

I think most people reviewing this movie are not just watching, the movie for enjoyment, but want to just pick apart the movie like they are paid critics. If the movie is watched strictly for entertainment it is a quite enjoyable movie.