Wolf Manor

But, boy, did they miss the mark. The werewolf hooks horrible. Less is more, and seeing it in shadows and up close would have kept a bit more suspense. I knew it was a 2020+ movie, because all the men are presented as cowards or incompetent. Thank goodness for the woman to be the brains of the situation. (sarcastic eye roll). Oliver Lawrence, obviously a nod to Lawrence Olivier, was a fun character, but the others are so bland that you don't get to know them before the die. And I can only assume that the guy who dies trying to save "boom girl" is the guy who crapped himself and was hiding in the stable. And that he is the shredded guy who goes into the house near the end.

To make matters really confusing, after revealing the man behind the werewolf, and him dying, then several more appear for no good reason, other than to show more crappy costumes.

Having just sat through the 2022 horror movie "Wolf Manor", I must admit that I wasn't particularly impressed. But then again, I hadn't heard anything about the movie, and based on the cover alone, then "Wolf Manor" seemed like a low budget werewolf movie.

Writers Joel Ferrari and Pete Wild didn't exactly conjure up the most riveting and thrilling of storylines for the movie. Sure, it was watchable, but it was ultimately just way too generic. But then again, maybe some of the diehard werewolf fans out there will get a kick out of watching "Wolf Manor".

The acting performances in "Wolf Manor" were fair enough. I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble, but the actors and actresses put on adequate enough performances given the contents of the script and character gallery they had to work with.

There were some very, very nice references and homages to the classic werewolf movie "An American Werewolf in London", and those scenes actually are well-worth sitting down and watching.

Visually then "Wolf Manor" was okay. The severed limbs, the wounds and injuries and such looked quite good and definitely worked well in favor of the movie. But with "Wolf Manor" being a werewolf movie, then you can't get past the fact that the werewolf in the movie looks like something purchased from a Halloween store. It was difficult to take that particular werewolf serious when it was on the screen.

"Wolf Manor" came and went without leaving a ripple on the horror pond. The movie snuck in unseen and unheard under the radar, and it will just as quietly and unseen vanish back into the mists of oblivion, never to be brought out and watched for a second time.

My rating of Dominic Brunt's 2022 movie "Wolf Manor" lands on a very generous four out of ten stars.

Negative reviews say things like "it wasn't scary," and "the wolf looked cheap." No duh. This isn't a horror movie. It's a comedy that pillories the inanity, superficiality and egotism of the film industry in the manner of Tropic Thunder; the difference being that here the subjects of parody are horror tropes instead of war movies. The direction and performances are quite good for a low-budget movie. The humor is dry and cheeky in a stereotypically English way - and it works. Clever references and deadpan allusions abound. I'm a lowbrow American swine and I enjoyed them so presumably the target audience of cultured British sophisticates will get even more out of the esoteric nods to Shropshire, Shakespeare, Laurence Oliv(i)er Reed and probably a ton of other things I missed; as well as the extended post-credits scene and (more broadly accessible) callbacks to An American Werewolf In London.

Not sure why they changed the title from Wolf Manor to Scream of the Wolf. Maybe to makes it more acceptable to a US audience? But wolves don't scream, so.....

The English have been making a slew of horror movies lately and most of them have a comic tint to them. This does too. It has the look of those old Hammer films from the 60's and 70's but with some Brit humor thrown in.

The old actor "vampire" is pretty good in his role but a lot of the peripheral characters arent so good. It's aptly directed, although a tad slow, which is odd considering it's short running time of an hour and 15 minutes!

The weak point of the film is clearly the writing, which never allows the movie to take off.

The wolf, BTW is a guy in a hairy suit who could also be a gorilla if they changed the head.

This movie is just barely a 2. Also just barely a movie, barely a plot, barely understandable. It bills itself as a horror movie but I just can't believe that his not meant as a send-up. The ending is 100% hell no 110% cheesey. I took IMDB at its description of a horror movie. But there are scenes and actions that make no sense unless this movie is a parody. The plot of 'they're making a monster movie but the monster is real' is familiar to horror fans. But trying to twist it into a new direction just an ends up creating a pretzel shaped mess. My advice? Get some pretzels and pick another movie.