Werewolves is a 2024 action horror film about a supermoon event that causes people to turn into lycanthropes.
Directed by Steven C. Miller (Margaux; Line of Duty; Escape Plan 2: Hades; First Kill; Arsenal; Marauders; Submerged; Extraction; Silent Night; Under the Bed; The Aggression Scale; Scream of the Banshee; Automaton Transfusion) from a screenplay by Matthew Kennedy (Inheritance).
The movie stars Frank Grillo (Black Lotus; Lights Out; King of Killers; Wheelman), Katrina Law, Ilfenesh Hadera (Godfather of Harlem), James Michael Cummings (City on the Hill) and Lou Diamond Phillips (Prodigal Son).
Plot:
A supermoon event triggers a latent gene in every human on the planet, turning anyone who enters the moonlight into a werewolf for that one night. Chaos ensued and close to a billion people died. Now, a year later, the supermoon is back…
Reviews:
“Werewolves remains a missed opportunity due to Miller’s largely pedestrian direction. The gore and violence lack the much-needed visceral flair while the story meanders a lot with surprisingly lacklustre stakes, especially given the otherwise potential werewolf genre crosses with The Purge-like surviving-the-night thriller. The action scenes are nothing more than your predominantly standard run-and-hide, shoot-to-kill moments.” Casey’s Movie Mania
“Werewolves had a lot of potential, but it fails to capitalize on much of it. Some of that may be due to a lack of budget to fully realize the idea of a city overrun by these creatures, but a lot of it stems from an underdeveloped script populated with bland, generic, characters that it’s hard to really care about. In the end, while Werewolves has its moments and isn’t as bad as some of the early reactions said, it really never rises far above watchable.” ★★½ Voices from the Balcony
Release:
Werewolves will be released by Briarcliff Entertainment and The Solution Entertainment Group theatrically in the US on December 6, 2024.
“We are super excited to be releasing Werewolves later this year exclusively in theatres,” said Myles Nestel, co-CEO of The Solution. “Our cast is incredible from the amazing Frank Grillo to powerhouse performances from Katrina Law and Ilfenesh Hadera. The use of practical werewolves designed and built by Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr – known from the Alien and Predator series – takes the genre back to its roots in a fresh and exciting way. We hope audiences will have as much fun experiencing the film in theatres as we had making it!”
Comment:
It’s a pity that for all the filmmakers’ excitement they couldn’t come up with a more “exciting” title than the deadly dull generic Werewolves.
Trailer:
More Steven C. Miller movies:
SILENT NIGHT (2012) Reviews of horror slasher remake
