Adrianna Miles in Werewolf (1996)

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Werewolf (aka- Arizona Werewolf) is another film from Tony Zarindast, the director of one of our favorite bad movies, Hardcase and Fist.

MST3000 selected it for one show, and that choice transformed it from an obscure piece of trash to a famous piece of trash. There are 36 comments about this film at IMDb, and 470 votes! The film probably could merit its place in the bottom 100 without the help of MST3000, but it could never have achieved that singular honor without the notoriety it received by being dishonored by Crow and Servo.

If you want to see this movie, I have to suggest seeing it on MST300 if you get a chance. Although I haven't seen that episode of Mystery Science Theater, I have to think it would have to be more fun than trying to watch it on the DVD. Don't try to rent it and watch it for the joy of watching a bad movie, because it's generally not the kind of bad that is also fun.

There are hilarious segments, but it is generally slow-paced, some of the sub-plots seem irrelevant, you can't tell some of the characters apart, continuity is non-existent, some of the action doesn't seem to follow from the previous action, some scenes are illogically re-dubbed, there is an infinite amount of time-wasting (like a billiards scene that seems to serve no purpose except for the cast members to play billiards, and a museum tour which simply eats up screen time) and the overall editing is as choppy as any movie I've ever seen. It's basically an unwatchable movie unless you have Mike and the 'bots as your guides.

Oh, yeah, did I mention that all of the starring actors speak with some kind of strange foreign accents ("Wahrwolf"), and the lead actress has no concept of English at all (at one point she says something like "The doctor and Tom is actually ....".) The best actor in the film is Joe Estevez(!!), who appears briefly at the beginning, until his character is simply dropped from the script without explanation.

There were a few things that cracked me up.....

·The werewolves actually look like a cross between bears and apes, or rather like chubby teenagers wearing bear masks for Halloween. You know how in werewolf movies, the people are always running from the wolves? Well, in this movie, the wolves run from the people, because the people just want to put them in cages and study them. Only one problem.

Once the humans do catch up, the wolves rip them limb from limb. That in itself wasn't funny, but one of the chases was a car chase in which the werewolf tried to get away from the lab assistant by driving a family sedan and wearing a baseball cap, all while gradually doing the whole nutty human-to-wolf thing. By the way, that is multi-talented Tony Zarindast himself as the motorist-werewolf.

·There is a scene where a young couple are making out in a car. The girl spies a werewolf, gets out of the car and starts running. Although the werewolf is crawling, he catches her almost immediately.

·There is another scene in which a guy spots another guy turning into a werewolf in the bathroom. He simply says "Hi, Tom", and walks out calmly as if he had simply seen the guy combing his hair.

·Then again, you have to love anyplace where the full moon is out every night. If romantic full moons or lycanthropes are your thing, I heartily recommend Flagstaff, Arizona based upon this film.

Nudity Report: None. Adrianna Miles plays billiards while wearing a t-shirt with little or nothing beneath.

Critics Vote: No major reviewers have discussed this film.

IMDB Summary: 1.8 out of 10

Box Office: No theatrical release.

DVD Info: 1.33:1 full screen version, no features, no widescreen.

Written by: Scoopy …Scoopy.net