Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

LATE PHASES is another low budget werewolf film that feels a bit like a 'mumblegore' effort. The cast play run-down, depressed and dirty old characters eking out a living in a close-up forest town. Mysterious deaths plague the vicinity and it soon transpires that the culprit is, you guessed it, a were-beast. Sadly I found this film pretty routine and uninteresting. It has a few decent bits of werewolf action and some good transformations for the budget, but the rest of the film singularly lacks suspense and finesse. Tom Noonan plays the priest and is the only actor I recognised.

Despite seeing him mentioned a number of times on the IMDb Horror board,I for some reason have never gotten a chance to catch a glimpse of film maker Adrián García Bogliano.Taking a look at the 3 Horror flicks chosen for viewing on a Film Festival thread,I was thrilled to find Bogliano's first English language title,which led to me deciding to make this my first Bogliano phase.The plot:Falling out with his son Will,crusty, blind Vietnam war veteran Ambrose McKinley is sent to a retirement community. fiercely independent,McKinley gets on the wrong side of everyone in the neighbourhood.One night someone (or something) breaks into his house and kills McKinley's dog. Calling the cops (who tell him that there is a full moon) McKinley is told that his dog was killed by an animal with large claws,which have dug into his wall. Listening in on local residence,McKinley discovers that a series of disappearances have taken place. Believing that a werewolf is attacking the community, (sure it is…grandpa!) McKinley looks towards his neighbours,and finds them to be in complete denial. Never letting blindness blind him from the memories of the Vietnam War,McKinley decides that he must face one final horror.View on the film:Limiting the werewolf action to 15 minutes,the screenplay by Eric Stolze brilliantly puts horror fur on a tough Neo-Noir's wolfs tail. Entering the community as an outsider, Stolze takes McKinley's glasses off to reveal a leather-face Noir war vet who is the only one prepared to step into the shadows of the neighbourhood. Getting everyone else in town "off my lawn!" Stolze cooks up deep-fried Noir steaming with nervous superstitions that block anyone else from seeing the nightmare unfolding over McKinley's eyes.Crossing the pond for the first time,director Adrián García Bogliano displays an extraordinary confidence. Clawing into the Noir anxiety, Bogliano and cinematographer Ernesto Herrera cut McKinley's lawn down with razor sharp shards of light burning up the drops of blood on a wolfs fur. Bringing Robert Kurtzman (of legendary visual effects team K.N.B.) in to give the horror a real bite, Bogliano cleverly blends the horror shocks into the bubbling Neo-Noir unease,as pitch black shadows line the walls of McKinley's final battle. Nervous that he would be unable to portray blindness, Nick Damici (who wrote the Neo-Noir Cold In July) gives a magnificent performance as McKinley. Confronting anyone who tries to give him pity, Damici turns McKinley's skin brittle with stubborn force to attack the Noir horrors that have their claws in him.

This is a really good "low budget" movie. Great acting- especially by the main actor and the priest character. I actually wanted to know even more about "Ambrose"- he really draws you in- very engaging actor. Plus nice to see a couple other talented familiar faces! The story was original enough for a "monster" movie. But one of the main reasons I decided to rent it was because of how much it reminded me of Silver Bullet in the trailer (which was probably the first werewolf movie I ever watched and is still my favorite at 30 years old). And it didn't disappoint! I kind of wish it would have kept us guessing for a bit longer than it did but it was faster paced in general. Not too much blood and gore either- just the right amount. The only thing that bothered me a bit was the actual face of the werewolf- they should have made the snout a bit broader and/or longer. It was still pretty creepy & scary looking nonetheless. But really overall a well-done scary mysterious werewolf movie- definitely worth watching! They are hard to come by!So if you are a big fan of Silver Bullet or Wolf, you will enjoy this one as well!

This Werewolf Movie Can Not Run in the Same Pack as American Werewolf in London (1981), Ginger Snaps (2000), or Dog Soldiers (2002), but it Does Owe its Pedigree to These More Memorable Films.It has a Transformation Scene Similar to American, the Snappy Humor of Ginger, and the Tall Lycanthropes of Dog. Still, This Low-Budget Winner is Not Without its Charm. Nick Damici's Completely Engaging Blind Senior Citizen and Some Other Good Performances Help the Mediocre Costuming of the Wolves Disappointment Rise to an Above Average and Respectable Genre Inclusion.Most of the Action is in the First and Third Acts and Deliver Enough Gore and Suspense to Impress, but it is the Different and Surprising Act Two, with its Impressive Script and Dialog About an Old Folks Gated Community Giving the Film its Special Status as an Imaginative and Entertaining Horror.