Wolf Girl

I can't believe how underrated this movie is. Not only does it work with classic horror themes, but it mingles them with a lot of smartness. It is almost perfect, if you discount the Romanian origins of the lead character (mainly, Romanians have not been stupid enough to leave firearms in the hands of regular idiot people for a long time).

The story is of a hairy girl who wants to be normal. She trades her weird looks for a violent personality, driven by her liaison with a regular freak (not violent and sensible) and the continuous bullying by another freak and his clique. The cast is mixed: Earthsea's Shawn Ashmore, Tim Curry (from a zillion movies) and Grace Jones work together with the Romanian cast that provided most of the secondary and support actors.

It's not that the movie is a masterpiece, but it is quite good with its depiction of freakness in all of its forms. The idea itself was masterful. I've watched the movie thinking it would be a werewolf film, but in actuality it is not, it is a story about human nature and should, by all counts, become a classic.

Do watch it. It may not be high production values or insane special effects, but the story is something to behold.

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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I think a lot of people didn't understand the message that was supposed to come through. The girl was unique but wanted to be look normal so bad that she turned into what people thought she was to begin with. A wild animal. All the "normal" teenagers had something about them that was out of the norm but looked completely normal on the outside. I think it sends a good message. If you twist your self up trying to be like everybody else instead of yourself you end up killing pieces of your humanity. A lot of people watched this film and assumed they the movie makers where making fun of a very real syndrome. I truly believe that if a person pays close attention to the message in the movie that they will enjoy a fine piece of imagination.

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

Lili, the Real Wolf Girl, sends her Greetings. She saw the movie when it first aired. We would like to know when it will air again. Here her comments: "The movie was fun, but a little violent. Tim Curry was great as the Outside Talker. Victoria was wonderful and beautiful. Her hair pattern was was well done. My brother and I, and several cousins were born with Hypertrichosis, including my uncle, and his granddaughters. So we know what is like to be in the sideshow. So we did not like the "cage scenes." Believe or not, No wolf people, including Jo-Jo the Dog Face boy, were ever introduced in a cage. Over all the movie was fun to watch. A sequel would be nice, especially, with a happy ending. Lili" As translated and posted by Dieguin