Watched: 10/25/2025
Format: Hulu
Viewing: First
Director: Steven C. Miller
On paper, I totally get what Werewolves (2024) was doing. We're going to do The Warriors' run across a city plagued by monsters. And the monster that makes the most sense to run from, without spending a lot of time worrying about the set-up, is werewolves. We all get werewolves. Moon. Roar. Kill kill.
It's basically an excuse to have a straight hour of nothing but action sequences as Frank Grillo and Katrina Law shoot their way across the city. What's interesting is that it's a movie completely devoid of character moments, themes or story. It is just a series of things happening. Which is really a weird way to do things, because it *looks* like a movie in many ways. It just functions more like... a horror action screen saver.
Initially I was like "huh, this is like a SyFy movie but with good actors and a budget", but it's actually a Bizarro SyFy movie. SyFy movies are mostly people standing around talking because they can't afford to do their bad FX. Or driving from place to place looking mildly cross. And then you get a giant CGI shark and snake at the end. SyFy movies pull from the Banal Character Development Playbook and run through the motions of how this giant shark attacking people ties to their personal struggle. But in the case of Werewolves, ain't no one got time for that. What we do have are several practical werewolf suits, one detailed werewolf head we'll see in profile about 55 times during the movie, and Frank Grillo. And shooting up sets, fighting and explosions. And no real character beats.