Wolf Girl

What does a Romanian-Canadian made-for-tv movie look like? It's similar to anything you might see on the Hallmark or Disney Channel, slow paced and wholesome, but with slightly more transsexuals and full frontal nudity (male and female).

Note: this film features Tim Curry's swagger.

He plays a freakshow owner, and his main act is The Wolf Girl, an ordinary, uncomfortable teenage girl who happens to be very hairy. Some late-90s bullies give her a hard time, but luckily, and unluckily for her (tragic irony), she's Wolf Girl, and becomes even more so as events unfold.

This film has the tone of an afterschool special or Lifetime original movie, but with wolf girl boobs, mulitple male genitalia, and gruesome, bloody murders. It first struck me as subversive, but then I realized I'm just American.

It also treads that uncomfortable line between celebrating and marginalizing those who are different. As freakshows are wont to do. Take the scene where late-90s nerdy boy with cool hair (me) peeks in on an armless man making love to a woman, only to realize he's been spotted by a woman with no arms or legs, who's in a hammock.

Strange, and strangely wholesome. There's a moral to the story about honoring who you are. Heartwarming characters. There's a great Ani DiFranco song for the credits. And Tim Curry is in it.

I give it a solid 6.75 on the unexpected male nudity meter. Worth watching.

I Got this film in one of those cheap 4 movie double disc paks wich i bought mainly for Return of the living dead 3, Unlike the american cover art which seems deceived a lot of people to think this was a werewolf horror flick this had a naked woman looking at her wolf like reflection on a lake and since one of the other movies was the terribly bad Wolfhound(wich instead of having werewolves or even wolves in as the cover deciveingly portraits, it has some crapy dogs and a california playmate pretending to be native irish) i was expecting your average skin flick with some bad werewolf story line, man was i wrong.

Wolf Girl is neither a horror film nor a skin flick, it is a really good drama about the pain of being diferent. The characters are well written with none of them becoming too clishe, it shows how the cruel kids have dark shameful secrets of their own, and it shows the ring master as a real father figure, one that often makes mistakes and acts towards needs and not his childs feelings but truly loves his family. The various segments of the show are quite entertaining and the music is really good. My only real problem is i can't figure out if its ment to be in the present or if they just had some errors, because of the nature of the story and the prduction design it often feels as if its ment to be set around the late sixties early seventies (they even have the good bad and ugly on the marquee on the streets background) but the cosmetics lab looks to modern and then you have shots of the wolf girl walking trougth the street were you can clearly see 90's cars that could have easily been edited out witougth ruining the flow of the scene, I find that really annoying. Overall i liked this film a lot, it just seems to be really bad marketed.

Like the oddities and curiosities depicted in "Blood Moon", the movie succeeds because it is odd and a curiosity itself. Going against the tide of mindless slice and dice horror movies, some actual thought went into this story of a sideshow wolf girl who takes an experimental drug to try and become normal. The side effects however are rather unpleasant. One problem is that the freak show attractions are featured far too often and grind the film to a halt. Certainly an above average movie, that is somewhat diminished by the start and stop pacing. What you wind up with is part circus act, part musical, part horror film, in essence, almost three separate acts. - MERK

Only Tim Curry and Grace Jones could have pulled this one off! Never judge a DVD by its cover! The cover implies that it's a werewolf movie, but really it's a drama surrounding a VERY hairy girl. Poor thing never figured out that all she needed was some good shaving cream and a sharp razor. At the very least, this film demonstrates what it would be like to be part of a traveling freak show. It would have been MUCH more believable if it were completely set in the distant past instead of having a gypsy clan collide with a modern day town. Costumes were most excellent and the freaks were freaky, but story lines strayed far from the plot. A must see for Tim Curry or Grace Jones fans. Wolf girl becomes wolf woman and is not afraid to show us her goods, but this movie had the worst ending of all time even though wolf girl goes through a complete character change! UG!

Saw the late showing of Wolf Girl recently on USA. It was good fun, but I'm naturally biased towards most movies with Tim Curry as he is one of my faves!

On the whole, the movie was paced nicely with some good performances and some bad ones as well. Tim Curry is good as the eccentric, yet caring freak show owner, Harley. And Victoria Sanchez plays her part well also as the lonely wolf girl who just wants to be a normal teenager. She's very believable.

The other performances were solid as well, with a few exceptions, most notable the group of teenagers who harass Tara. They are horribly stereotypical, egocentric and dull. (Though the running gag with the size of their "manhood" is good for a few giggles).

The movie is filmed with a kind of washed out color feeling, similar to, but nowhere near as effective as Tim Burton's, "Sleepy Hollow" and the music is passable. Tim Curry even gets a chance to show off his singing skill in a wonderful little number about "plucking" that kind of reminds me of Frankenfurter from "Rocky Horror"

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