Wolf Manor

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.

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.

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.

Funny because it's so bad, full of Emmerdale Farm characters(which did made me chuckle) possibly an attempt at parody that really does fail! I blame over a decade of Tory rule and all the funding cut from the arts, along with everything else that made this country slightly bearable! Apparently my review for what it is, is too short, all I can say is don't watch this. It's a brave attempt, though of what I'm not sure! Lots of respect to all the cast & crew of this awful waste of time, I hope they got paid because us poor Brits need a bit of cash in between visits to the food bank!. .. Epic fail!!!