Never Cry Werewolf (2008)

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Loren states in the beginning of the movie while outside her school, she states she won't eat pizza because she's a vegetarian. Then there's a scene about 25 minutes into the movie, there's a scene where she is with her friend in her bedroom spying on the neighbor with the telescope and what do I see??? Loren actually eating a pepperoni pizza! Like, really? If you're going to write a script at least follow your own storyline! Whoever wrote this stuff really needs to get their act together. I'm not a writer nor do I make movies, but I know to at least follow what I wrote in a story, then to deliberately state that someone in my story is a vegetarian, then have them eat a freakin' pepperoni pizza is stupid and ridiculous!

Remake of Fright Night of sorts with a werewolf instead of a vampire. Amusing in a direct to TV sort of way but best viewed at 3am on SCIFI when you're too tired to actually take any of this seriously. Its does have some good performances (The two antagonists for example, deserve better) though they some times run counter to other performances, such as Kevin Sorbo, who play to the audience instead of to the material which creates a knowing edge that lessens any scares. Its a shame that everyone couldn't have been on the same page because there are times when the film has flashes of the minor horror masterpiece this could have been. Worth a shot f you can catch it on TV but otherwise take a pass.

"Never Cry Werewolf" is a really nice and impressive werewolf film with a few nice surprises.**SPOILERS**Moving into the neighborhood, Jared Martin, (Peter Stebblings) meets up with Loren Hansett, (Nina Dobrey) and her brother Kyle, (Spencer Van Wyck) who welcome him into the neighborhood. Although everyone else around her takes an instant shine to him, she has a nagging feeling about him that she thinks isn't right. The more she watches him across the house, the more she thinks he's a werewolf but despite going online for help, no one believes her story. After getting his friend Steven Kepkie, (Sean O'Neill) onto her side, a confrontation at a hardware store manages to get the attention of Redd Tucker, (Kevin Sorbo) the host of a local hunting show to believe her as well, and realizing that all of their actions have provoked the beasts' fury, they try to put an end to it's rampage before he takes them all out.The Good News: This was a relatively fun and enjoyable werewolf film. That the beginning of the film is so fun is due to the fact that it's strongly set-up by a fantastic story. This one builds up a really nice and effective mystery with many different kinds of great moves. The film decides to have the revelation come early in the story and that propels long segments devoted to the mystery, actually getting time to do something about it and responds with some great scenes. From the scenes of her spying from a distance, which are pretty creepy as they actually run with her seeing the killings first before doing the normal ones where he does nothing, allowing the film to run with the fantastic notion of her looking through history, from the internet, movies and books and trying to match what has been learned on the actual events, which is fun and quite interesting. The film's really deliberate pacing also produces the fact, and with a couple horror scenes spread throughout the plot allow it to use them in building up the mystery. Some of them, consisting of attacks that are witnessed from afar, are quite well with the several on the prostitutes early on being really good, and once it moves away, either out into the neighborhood or to the hardware store, it doesn't get worse with some top-notch action displayed in both scenes. The hardware store encounter is really fun since it comes with a better revelation than could've hoped for, a really tense stalking scene and some really helpful gore thrown in. It's all apart of the film's best part, it's last half-hour. This is really great, packed with action and fun confrontations, a couple moments of suspense and some more bloodshed thrown in. The rest of the gore in here is not bad either, as there's a clawed hand punched through a stomach from behind, slashed across the stomach, chest, neck and face, bites on the arms and shoulders and a complete meltdown to skin and bones, plus the wonderfully gory way that the lead werewolf is taken out in. The last bit here that works is the werewolf design, suggesting a powerful, intimidating creature with a massive build, large claws, huge fangs and a really memorable-looking snout, giving it more of wolf-like look than most other designs. It's really one of the best ones ever, and should've been shown off more. These here are the film's best points.The Bad News: This one here doesn't have too many flaws to it. The most pressing, but not-detrimental case against this one is the fact that the beginning of this is played out straight from other films nearly verbatim, and the fact that it's done in such a way allows it to be so obvious that it's ripping them off is something that will put some off. The fact that the film decides to hold off the werewolf until the end is something that is a crime, since the design is so great and memorable, that not being able to see it during the film is a real shame. This, of course, is due to the film's biggest flaw, the slow-building mystery. Because it's so strong and well-thought-out, it has to have a lot to be able to get all of it out to the audience and that means that most of the beginning half of the film is merely exposition. It can get dull since its about the mystery and gathering evidence, and the amount of time doing so is where the lesser time with the werewolf comes from, since it's so great and really deserved to be featured more. The longer build-up also forces the film into less, and shorter, action scenes as well. There isn't a whole lot of confronting the werewolf in here, and the few encounters, up until the ending at least, are all quite shorter than they should be, and are should've been dragged out a little more. These here are all that the film does wrong.The Final Verdict: A fairly fun werewolf entry, with a fun story and a bunch of good parts to it that makes it rather interesting. Give it a shot if you can get over the similarities or are in the mood for a rather fun and light-hearted werewolf romp, otherwise stick to the others in the genre for a more-traditional werewolf fix.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Brief Nudity

First note that I have different scales for Sci-Fi Channel Originals and regular movies - an 8 for this movie does not mean the same as an 8 for what you would go to the theaters to see. But amongst sci-fi channel movies, this was a classic!The characters were more or less believable, acting was okay, Kevin Sorbo was DELIGHTFUL as always, save for a few spots the special effects were pretty decent, some funny parts, some scary-ish parts (in a kid sort of way), all making for one very fun to watch movie.Only complaints were, 1, it looks like it was shot in 1980 or so, you know, with the kind of off lighting and low quality image; 2, the middle 30 minutes or so really seem to drag on; and 3, some of the werewolf shots are really bad, in one I actually got confused and thought the werewolf was a trick or treater wearing a really bad costume, because (I kid you not) you could actually see that he was wearing a monster glove, because you could see where it stopped and his real arm began.Overall, if you think you can overlook its flaws, and if you like some of the other sci-fi channel movies, you'll probably like this one. If not, stay away.