THE WOLFMAN (2010)

THE WOLFMAN (2010)

In this one we have a bunch of great actors with a really dislikable storyline. Some scenes just don’t seem to be even important to the movie. Lawrence Talbot's mother is killed. His father is sent to an insane asylum. When his brother's fiancée, Gwen tracks him down to help find her love (that has gone missing). Lawrence finds his father after going to their estate to find his brother has been mauled to death, (why) and then sets out to find his brother's murderer. Something is jacking up a lot of people in town, like basically shredding them to pieces. Now happy go lucky Lawrence whose family life is just peachy must find the killer. There is also an inspector on the case, so this ought to go well.

Story wise this thing is just a mess, but we are giving some great performances especially from Benecio Del Toro and Emily Blunt. The sets are pretty amazing and this movie has that dark gloomy “we are going to get killed” feeling you want in a horror movie. I think for these reasons the result we get is a very middle of the road story that takes away from the greatness that could have been this effort. I will also say the effects are pretty good (not THE HOWLING good) but pretty good, just at times very un-necessary. Good example, watch the fingers during the movies big transformation scene, it’s cool looking, but it make zero sense.

Overall I loved the look and feel of this film and it does get back to the old style “I am a werewolf, but mostly on my face” look of Universal’s past. It should be noted, that this is also a Universal film, so it is by no meant “a B movie”.

I give this a 3 out of 7 

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