Werewolves Within (2021)

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samoan
This is a fun horror comedy. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Also has nice nods to the films that inspired the movie like The Thing 2 years 6 months ago
Siskoid
Based on the video game based on the (irritating) party game, Werewolves Within is an amusing horror comedy in large part thanks to the fun central characters, too nice of a forest ranger Sam Richardson, and manic pixie postal worker Milana Vayntrub (who I hope they call back for Squirrel Girl when the MCU gets back to that). They are relative newcomers in a snowbound little town when there's a sudden rash of werewolf attacks... maybe. Like the game, it's really much more about paranoia and mob mentality, and the movie vibes to that energy. So much so that I think it would have been a stronger film - if not a better adaptation of the source material - if there had been no werewolves in the classic sense at all! So it's fun, but it has a fear of commitment. It lays down a possible thematic foundation, but it can't be sustained. It calls itself a whodunit, but it's more of a whogetsitnext, its fast pace didn't give me time to process the clues. And its feminist one-liners feel like an afterthought. 2 years 2 months ago