Ravenwolf Towers: The Feature

RAVENWOLF TOWERS: THE FEATURE is a compedium of web episodes from a short-lived series by Full Moon, then experimenting with Internet-only streaming. As usual for Full Moon, the director is Charles Band and the budget is non-existent. This is a wannabe soap opera about a guy who gets a job as a handyman at a hotel populated by all manner of freaks and bizarre characters. There are references galore to earlier Full Moon productions, but an almost entire dearth of plot or incident; even the usual Full Moon staples like nudity and gore are missing here. The acting and script are uniformly bad, and even at this short length it bores.

The movie opens with our main character (whose name I forget) taking a job as assistant manager (read handyman/janitor) at the once opulent but now run down Ravenwolf Towers. The main character is quite forgettable and oddly passive but the supporting cast makes up for it. Geroge Appleby is good as Dr Ivan Ivanoff but he doesn't really have much to do here. He mostly just delivers exposition. There's the usual gratuitous nudity but it's a bit light on the gore for Full Moon. What we do get is pretty good as are the make-up effects.

The reason why I am giving this such a low rating despite this is that it is not a movie. A bunch of stuff is set up but none of it is paid off at all. There is a whole subplot about Dr Ivanoff's mysterious backer which is unresolved. There is some looming event with the family on the 11th floor but it's not shown and we never find out what it is. There's a clown character who shows up a few times but they never say who that is or what he has to do do with anything. There's an investigator character who is introduced very late in the running time but doesn't really do anything. The whole thing is like this. Nothing is resolved. There is no ending. It just stops. It feels more like a pilot for a TV show than a movie.

Without going into spoiler territory, the series had promises, a ton of references appear to other movies (Hideous!, Demonic Toys 2, The Dead Want Women), and the dleiverance is solid in its ghost-story-soap-opera level.

But this whole thing suddenly stops without any important revelations, so this is NOT a feature, but a cashgrab, trying to salvage the losses maybe. I'd be interrested more why this got discontinued, and what were the plans for the future.

Like the relevance of the clown living in 1012, who Janitor Boy wanned to take revenge of, who was financing the vampire hunter and so on.

Ravenwolf Towers (2016) is a Full Moon Features picture that I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a hotel employee who works at a unique hotel filled with vampires, clowns, living dolls and other strange oddities.

This movie is directed by Charles Band (Puppet Master) and stars William Paul Burns (Blood Dolls), Cody Renee Cameron (The Neon Demon), Jesse Scott Egan (Shameless) and Victoria Elder (Betrayed).

This movie is made up of three episodes of a television series crammed together to make a movie. Essentially, this is soft porn with random sex scenes and really bad acting and dialogue. I did like the sets and backdrops, which were creative, but the entire movie I was trying to figure out if this was trying to be "so bad it's good." Unfortunately, I never felt it was good.

Overall this is a bad addition to the horror genre that isn't a complete storyline; but even if it was, I'm not sure it would have worked. I would score this a 3/10 and recommend skipping it.