This film is very silly.
No, that’s not the entire review, but you get the general idea. I’m not quite sure exactly how much of it is MEANT to be silly, but I suppose that doesn’t really matter. Intended or not, this is almost all camp, with some of the best scenes coming in unbelievably macabre and twisted fashion. Macabre and twisted, but so hokey that you can’t help but snort or snicker, much like ‘Dead Alive’ only without anywhere NEAR as much gore.
The plot centers around a couple of college students on vacation in jolly olde England. They’re walking across the countryside and come to a little tavern called “The Slaughtered Lamb”. Foreshadowing? Who knows. Who cares? It’s a silly movie. Anyways, they go in, and the best part of the movie occurs…unfortunately, right near the beginning. The reception they receive is grim but turns lively in rather amusing fashion, and the atmosphere is captured perfectly. Then they leave, and the movie starts to mostly suck.
One of the students (David Naughton) is bitten by a (get ready for a surprise) werewolf, while his friend is bitten repeatedly (translation = mauled to death).
Naughton’s character David (yes, same name) then slowly starts to “transform” into a werewolf, or so it seems, while his dead friend keeps appearing to have polite discussions about what happened, what will happen, and what SHOULD happen. It’s amusing in places, utterly ridiculous, vastly overblown, and good for a few chuckles. Once. Da End.
Inspirational Quote: “You…made me miss.”
Grade: C
3/21/12: Ok, funnier (cheezy amusing not “haha”) than I gave it credit for, and played straight. Which gives it a slight edge over stuff like ‘Troll 2’. Grade: C+