By Geno McGahee
I used to say that I’m not a fan of werewolf movies, but that is starting to change. I absolutely love DOG SOLDIERS and I just gave BAD MOON a chance and what a pleasant surprise. We have a pretty cool werewolf movie with plenty of gore and fun factor to make this worth a watch. It is one of the better werewolf movies that I have seen.
We begin with Uncle Ted (Michael Pare) having sex with a hot chick. Pare must’ve been thinking ‘this is a fucking great role’ as he felt up her boobies. You owe your agent lunch Pare. Now, we have a werewolf cock-blocker screwing it all up for Uncle Ted, grabbing the girl right off of him and killing her. Unlike most werewolf movies where you need a silver bullet, Ted takes a shotgun and blows the werewolf’s head clean off his shoulders. Unfortunately, he got bit in the process and is now one of the creatures of the night. Is a werewolf a creature of the night or does that just go for vampires? I don’t fucking know. If I’m wrong, call me on it.
Now, Ted brings his trailer and goes to see his sister, Janet (Mariel Hemingway). Janet, a successful lawyer with plenty of spunk and a young son, welcomes him back, but her dog starts acting weird. The dog would not go near Uncle Ted, which could have meant several things. One, he sensed he was a werewolf, or two, he was the typical creepy uncle…aka – dog molester.
In one of the cooler scenes, the dog goes for a walk at night and sees a werewolf handcuffed to a tree, desperately trying to escape, clawing and pulling. Uncle Ted has found a way not to kill anyone…but it doesn’t last long and he doesn’t need a full moon to turn hairy. Any moon will do.
Eventually, the werewolf is loose and goes ape shit, killing a few bad people and clawing up the dog in a werewolf vs. dog fight. That is something new and the dog holds his own. I was surprised. You would think that the werewolf would just snap the dog’s neck and that would be that, but that’s only in real life. In real life, a werewolf would destroy a dog, but this is just a movie.
Uncle Ted’s secret is exposed and now the family must fend off the crazy werewolf…which pushes the fun factor to a level of 10. The fun factor is what keeps this movie alive and should satisfy any horror fans that are partial to werewolves.
BAD MOON is a winner. It is a great werewolf movie with plenty of creative gore. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 7.5/10
This is true one of the good werewolf movie, the looks of werewolf here is quite scary, and the gore scenes are pretty intense, you only avle to compare this movie to Dog Soldiers
I couldn’t agree more! This and DOG SOLDIERS are my two favorite werewolf flicks.