Werewolf movies?
I feel like werewolf movies are so terrible, and that’s a damn shame.
Every single werewolf movie I’ve seen has been ruined by bad acting, bad effects, bad plot, you name it. Is it because due to the failure of most werewolf movies, it’s too hard to get a decent actor, or a decent budget?
Take recent movies like Blood and Chocolate, Skinwalkers, Underworld, Van Helsing, or Cursed. Is it because werewolves are just not as sexually appealing or attractive as their fictional counterparts, vampires, are?
Many different directors have taken a lot of different approaches to how the werewolf is portrayed. Blood and Chocolate, a terrible film, had a good idea by making their werewolves look like regular wolves, but ruined it by the ridiculous transformation sequence. A person jumps into the air, is surrounded by a white light, and bam. You get a wolf.
And then look at movies like Skinwalkers and Underworld, where werewolves undergo painful looking transformations, look like hideous beasts, and for the most part, are portrayed as bloodthirsty monsters.
In cinema, it’s not hard to find the good vampire, the decent one, but how often do you see the attractive, kind werewolf?
Even benevolent characters such as Harry Potter’s Remus Lupin was unable to control himself and turned on his friends when he transformed.
Can you blame it on werewolf lore, where the beasts are never portrayed
in a kind light? The same can be said about vampires, but it’s much easier to turn a vampire into a hero than a werewolf.
Are werewolf movies just poor, under-appreciated examples of cinema?
If anyone wants to let me know about a decent werewolf movie, free to email me, and I’d love to write something about it, but until now, I’m afraid my opinions of werewolf movies don’t have a very good outlook.
Until next time!
