I’ve seen a lot of werewolf movies in my day. The sub-genre is one of my favorites going back to Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (which featured the Wolfman). To me there was always an underlying comedy in these films.  No matter how serious the films try to be, there is ALWAYS an underlying humor in a man transforming into a wolf.  Some of my favorites then, are of course, the comedies like the above mentioned, An American Werewolf In London, and the Mike Nichols and Jack Nicholson’s Wolf (wait…that wasn’t supposed to be a comedy?).

Wolfcop follows Lou (Leo Fafard), who’s seen some better days.  He’s is an alcoholic, lazy, and has no right wearing a badge, yet he is one of the towns Deputies.  When the towns dogs and cats start turning up dead, the town suspects some hoodlum kids screwing around in the woods.  Well, one night Lou gets a disturbance call and goes to investigate, but what he encounters is more than just some hoodlums; he is attacked and wakes up not feeling…himself.  He discovers the mark of the Beast has been carved into his chest and that full moons will never be the same.  Lou, along with his partner, take to the streets to unravel the mystery of why someone has turned him into a WolfCop.

Written and directed by Lowell Dean, WolfCop is a fun, entertaining ride through the sub-genre.  There are plenty of great gags not seen before in a werewolf movie.  I for one have never seen a werewolf transformation start with a penis and work it’s way up; this gag got a laugh from my morbid sense of humor, as did the werewolf partaking in the alcoholism trait that his human partner has succumbed to.

The story in itself, is nothing to howl about, but fresh and original stories are rare in film these days; it’s how new characters we are introduced to react within the story that makes familiar story lines interesting.  If the film revolves around the same old characters that you have seen a dozen or more times, in a story line you’ve seen a dozen or more times, the fun and excitement are drained, there’s nothing new to offer.  However, Dean delivers some fun characters thrown into a familiar story…I was interested enough to want to stick around and see how these particular characters played out within the films universe.

The cast is fun and intriguing in all the roles.  Leo Fafard, as Lou, really sold the character by portraying a straight-faced, “I don’t give a fuck” drunken Deputy.  Even after he finds out he is indeed a werewolf he seems more upset that he has to deal with the burden as opposed to being afraid of what might happen to him.  I have to give Sarah Lind a special shout out as Jessica.  I’ve never seen a sexier sequence of someone taking out the trash on film before in my movie-watching experience!

Well the result is in, WolfCop is super-fun, super-entertaining, and a film that I will certainly recommend; this is a keeper.  A BluRay of WolfCop will be sitting on my self in the near future.

A MUST WATCH!

 

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