Lycan

This film doesn't have a werewolf in it and a dog is killed in the first few minutes.

I watched 3/4 of this movie waiting for it to get better. It didnt. Sooo slow!!

I'm a fan of independent films and especially low budget horror films made by fans of the genre. Some of the best made horror movies began with a ton of imagination and little funds. Two great examples are THE Texas CHAINSAW MASSACRE and THE HILLS HAVE EYES. Both tell an original story, both use actors who are far from famous and both take the elements of the genre and mold them into something memorable. Unfortunately the same can't be said of LYCAN. The movie feels like a checklist made film, one that looks at all others and then compiles that list to mark off the things needed for a horror film. Students? Check. Oddball among them? Check. Mysterious location? Check. Legend being investigated? Check. Stoner in the group? Check. Videotaping the events? Check. See where I'm coming from? Students are given the assignment to do a deep investigation into a historical story and then write a report on it. Rather than individuals they are placed in groups, which of course sets them at odds with one another over issues like what to do or the snooty girl in conflict with the oddball. Rather than look into the story of a man wrongfully convicted of a crime they choose to look into the legend of a woman accused of being a werewolf. This involves going to the location of where it took place which happens to be on land next to where the oddball girl lives. It also involves camping. That leads to drinking and smoking grass and someone getting roofied. It also means that these students will eventually be watched by something in the woods. The movie takes far too long to set up the premise and then more wasted time to set the kids up to get lost ala BLAIR WITCH. Fortunately the videotaped portions aren't long but then they add nothing to the film either. The performances are well intended but for the most part on the poor side. The only good thing about this film is the final sequence which offers a decent explanation of what's been going on as well as a nice reveal. The problem is the hour or so it took to get there not to mention the fact most will figure out at least part of that beforehand. Look, I love a good horror movie and as I said I'm glad that when someone has the chance they take a risk and put something out there. But it doesn't always work. The extras show that this group really had their heart in it but that just isn't enough to make a great movie. Horror fans might want to watch this and see what they think but for the most part other may want to pass it by.

What the hell kind of Lychanthropy movie is this why is it even called lycanthropy if there's not even werewolves..it's just a bunch of regular wolves.... and two stupid women killing people with claw thingies and making vampire-like hissing noises to sound like wolves. This is a stupid lame film.

NOT a Werewolf Movie. That's the important thing for me here. I was expecting and trying to watch a werewolf movie. Other than that, it wasn't terrible.

There is this cable TV movie feel to it. Like a low-budget amateur vibe without the ironic cheese factor. You know you are in trouble when the opening credits have to say "Starring" before listing the cast. The acting is college-level at its best, SyFy-caliber at its worst - not very convincing. Rather underwhelming with unstable accents and misplaced pathos. The lead actress is dreadful. Everyone seems to have taken tranquilizers every day of shooting. The plot was a snore. Like one of the characters, I was more concerned about the jeopardy to their academic records than the supposed peril they were facing in the woods. The whole 80's thing just didn't really work. It could have been set whenever. Oh, the score. There is this sparse piano thing THROUGHOUT the entire movie - but it is more like a touching and tender leitmotif from a sappy Hallmark or Lifetime romance story. It is so not suspense-inducing. So not horror. It really drove me nuts. Some of the songs were decent. Overall, I didn't really like it.

Definitely not a prime piece of filmmaking. They honestly thought they could pass off a 37 yr old as a college student? Everything about this movie felt so random. It embodied all the cheesy cliché's of every B horror film.

I'm not really sure where to start with this one. I'm not even sure if the filmmakers even knew what they were making as it comes out as a werewolf movie that follows traditional slasher formula, which doesn't work. Some teens go into a forest, one of them (and it's real obvious who) has a claw thing, then at some point some of them die in confusing fashion. In between everything is bad: acting, effects, dialogue, editing, directing, even the music choices seem off. Overall this movie is nearly unwatchable, there are constraints that come with a low budget but you can still write good lines and have them delivered well and produce some type of movie. Here there is no attempt to do any of that and it just seems like a one-take affair where everything was cobbled together and thrown out there despite the apparent bad quality. It's just not worth the time.

Very predictable, very poor story, no thrill, actors can't act.

Bad actors, bad story, bad movie. Don´t waste your time.