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Werewolf

  • Video
  • 1995
  • R
  • 1h 39m
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1.7/10
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Werewolf (1995)
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Unscrupulous archaeologists try to take advantage of an outbreak of lycanthropy prompted by the discovery of a werewolf skeleton in the Arizona desert.Unscrupulous archaeologists try to take advantage of an outbreak of lycanthropy prompted by the discovery of a werewolf skeleton in the Arizona desert.Unscrupulous archaeologists try to take advantage of an outbreak of lycanthropy prompted by the discovery of a werewolf skeleton in the Arizona desert.

  • Director
    • Tony Zarindast
  • Writers
    • Tony Zarindast
    • Brad Hornbacher
  • Stars
    • Jorge Rivero
    • Richard Lynch
    • Federico Cavalli
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    • Director
      • Tony Zarindast
    • Writers
      • Tony Zarindast
      • Brad Hornbacher
    • Stars
      • Jorge Rivero
      • Richard Lynch
      • Federico Cavalli
    • 113User reviews
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    Jorge Rivero
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    • Yuri
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    • Noel
    Federico Cavalli
    • Paul Niles
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    Adriana Stastny
    • Natalie Burke
    • (as Adrianna Miles)
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    1charlweed

    One important note: Worst single performance ever.

    Read the other reviews, I concur with all of them. But here is something to consider:

    While I am not a true scholar of bad film, I have seen much of the MST3K collection, and countless other examples of truly wretched cinema. And in my opinion, this film may indeed have captured the worst performance in any commercially released film. It's not your ordinary woodenness, it's not merely the sheer inability to convey fear, happiness, or anger. There are countless bad actresses. Sure, the script was already incomprehensible. But that's common too.

    No, I believe Adrianna Miles' performance is the result of taking a (terrible) actor, and then handing her a (terrible) script IN A LANGUAGE SHE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND, and only giving her the weakest possible direction on how to parrot the syllables.

    Imagine Pauly Shore as the lead in a Chinese horror film, IN Chinese, where the director and voice coach hate him so much, that they refuse to even explain to him what is supposed to be happening in the scene.

    To me, its the best explanation of the "This is absolutely fascinatingggg" scene, and every other time she is supposed to be performing "dialog". It's why she giggles while someone is writhing in supposed agony on the floor in front of her, and why she does not seem to recognize that the male lead is not supposed to spit in her hair while wooing her.

    See this film. It may be one for the ages.
    jeffq

    Don't watch this were-dog without Mike and the 'Bots!

    Thrill to the harpsichord music in the pool hall scene! Wonder at our heroine's ability to abuse English syntax and pronunciation! Tremble as the "wuur-wilves" grow wispy hair extensions and don animal puppet heads before striking! Shudder from exposure to the looney militant caretaker! Cackle as the greedy and inexplicably violent archaeologist's hair style and color spontaneously change from scene to scene! And don't miss Charlie Sheen's uncle's critical role as an itinerant site-digger.

    Let's face it -- the only way to watch this dud is with the Mystery Science Theater 3000 crew lambasting it. Richard Lynch, ordinarily a good character actor, must have really been hurting financially to allow himself to be seen (and wasted) in this were-dog of a movie. Other favorite parts of mine include the hero turning off a radio, abruptly ending the annoying spooky soundtrack, and (in the MST3K version) Mike and the 'Bots' sing-along variations on the end theme.
    1Gafke

    Terrible

    Believe it or not, this film starts out pretty promisingly. A team of archaeologists working on a dig in Arizona unearth the skeleton of a bipedal wolf creature. The Native American diggers are instantly suspicious, claiming that these are the remains of a Skinwalker. When one of them is struck with the skull during a fight, the gash becomes infected and the man begins to change into a living, breathing werewolf running amok in a hospital!

    This could have been a good little film. But it lacks a decent script...and good actors...and a coherent storyline and convincing special effects and...well, it lacks more than it has. The plot (what there is of it) consists of an Andy Garcia lookalike taking FOREVER to transform into a wolfman, and a bodybuilding dork who runs around injecting random people with werewolf juice for no apparent reason whatsoever. There's also a redheaded love interest with the face of a rabbit and the personality of a coat hangar who loves the wolf and is pursued by the dork. Richard Lynch is here too as the head of the archaeology department, though the writer of this mess apparently had no idea what to do with his character and has Lynch wander around in search of something to do or say. Joe Estevez disappears with no explanation after the first half hour and is replaced with Sam the Keeper, an aging hippie/militia man who is far scarier than the werewolf proves to be.

    This movie is just a total mess. Avoid it at all costs.
    1Chimera-2

    The Cover Was Great...

    Well, let's put it like this. They must have spent more money for the cool-looking holographic werewolf-transformation cover than they spent for the entire rest of the movie.

    It was a horrible, horrible film. Makes Plan 9 look like Ben Hur.
    lwjoslin

    Killed him with his breath, I guess

    Saw this one recently with some friends who have an ironic love of truly terrible movies, and in that context, it was just the ticket. It was a double feature with "Satanik," a 1968 Italian piece of junk that was just as bad but at least had a hot Eurobabe as the killer. Both flicks were made by the absolutely untalented, and can be watched only by dedicated students of bad film.

    In a "climactic" scene in "Werewolf," the title critter kills a man apparently without touching him, or even being in the same general area. We repeatedly cut back and forth between shots of the werewolf going RARRR, and of the victim crossing his arms in front of his face (again and again), in a posture of defense. Finally, the bloodied victim drops to the ground. At no time do both the werewolf AND the victim appear in this scene together. It's as though the two "actors" involved couldn't coordinate their table-waiting schedules in such a way as to be both on the set on the same day. We all looked around at each other and said, "What just happened?"

    See it for laughs, if this sort of bad flickage is your idea of fun. Otherwise, flee like a Texas Democrat.

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    • Trivia
      Director Tony Zarindast used stock footage for the car wreck which he had purchased prior to starting work on Werewolf (1995). In an attempt to make the footage match, he had the car painted the matching color of the stock footage car.
    • Goofs
      Uri's hair color and style changes constantly throughout the film with no explanation.
    • Quotes

      Natalie: [totally flat and lifeless] This is absolutely fascinating...

    • Alternate versions
      The version of this film released as "Arizona Werewolf" includes a lengthy sex scene between Natalie and Paul.
    • Connections
      Featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000: Werewolf (1998)

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    • Release date
      • January 21, 1996 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Аризонский оборотень
    • Filming locations
      • Susanville, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Tozart Publishing
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      • $350,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 39m(99 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital

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