Werewolf: The Beast Among Us

 


Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (2012)

The Plot: A team of monster hunters chase down a werewolf

When your village is under torment by a werewolf, there are not too many things you can do. But one of those things is to call a team of all-star monster hunters. Sort of like a Victorian era Avengers. There is the stoic Cowboy leader, posh but deadly aristocratic dagger thrower, Davy Crockett Frontiersman, and bad ass chick with a crossbow, among others. Yes, this movie does try to answer the much anticipated question: who would win in a fight? A cowboy or a werewolf? 

A cowboy and an aristocrat walk into a bar

it would seem there must be a good back story as to how all these fighters came to be in each other's company, but we don't get too much of that. I, for one, would like to know the story of how a cowboy came to be a werewolf hunter. Were there werewolves in the American southwest? Or did he have to travel abroad and put in a semester of hands on werewolf hunting in Transylvania? Who's to say? That's a tale for another day, and for a better movie than this.

Werewolf boy is here

The usual things start happening, townspeople turn up dead, full moon is in effect, there's a colorful team of werewolf hunters that has assembled. The ingredients for a pretty good werewolf movie are here but unfortunately, the generic characters and really bad CGI werewolf sink this movie. I give it 4 Cowboy Werewolf hunters



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