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It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Sometimes u do get tempted by the DVD cover n the fake inverted commas reviews on it. Take examples of The Vanguard, Dark Wolf, Blooded, etc. Sometimes they mislead us by posters of famous actors who appear for jus a cameo. Sometimes they jus write, from the director followed by some name which u later come to know that he is a nobody. I saw this on a pirated DVD for 50 rupees in 2008. The plot, i know who cares for an ultra micro budget trash. The film opens in a topless strip club. We see lots of boobs. A biker causes a ruckus, the police come to arrest him. He's handcuffed, and thrown into the back of the wagon. He turns in a werewolf, eats a policeman, and escapes.... The transformations are quite possibly the worst ever seen in a werewolf movie n the bad gorilla costume, the less said the better. It has everything bad. Atrocious editing, bad acting, awful direction. Sometimes i feel movies like these r purposely made jus to show expenses or losses to the income tax department. Or maybe the makers jus get the sadistic pleasure by making us see their trash.

Firstly I think I ought to say that I watched 2 films back-to-back. Lycan and DarkWolf.The only comment I'll make about Lycan is big monkeys and The Backstreet Boys. Those of you who have seen it will know what I mean. Avoid at all costs! As for DarkWolf I quite enjoyed it, and I know I'm among the minority on this. It has a decent storyline, it's pacey a little bit spooky at times, and there is some serious sexy stuff in it which many will enjoy. All that a horror film should be, apart from one major thing. The CGI transformations. It's a real shame that the producers chose to do this, they would have done so much better making the transformations rawer, I personally think it would have made the film so, so much better.Aside from that I'll give it a thumbs-up. The 6 rating is because of the CGI effects. With something different and with more thought given I probably would have rated it higher.Give it a watch, you might find you're one of the minority too!

I have certainly seen a lot of werewolves, but director Richard Friedman and writer Geoffrey Alan Holliday put together what I consider the best werewolf movie ever.You just knew that it was going to be a winner when the action started in a strip club. In walks biker Kane Hodder (Hatchet, 2001 Maniacs) with the cops on his tail. Amid all the breasts, he manages to get caught, but only for a short time. Locked securely in a steel police van, he transforms into the Hybrid Wolf and escapes, leaving two bodies in his wake - one completely unrecognizable as something human.The dead detective partner (Ryan Alosio) has a rookie with him (Jaime Bergman, Miss January 1999). She finds his job to be totally unbelievable, and becomes the wolf-man's next victim before we get to see her beauty to the fullest.At the same time, the Werewolf Protector, Tippi Hedren of The Birds fame, is also getting killed, but not before she clues the detective in that the waitress (Maxim Hot 100 Samaire Armstrong) is the mate the wolf-man is looking for. So, he takes Josie and becomes her protector.While they are hiding, the action gets hot and heavy at a local photographer's studio. Josie's boyfriend and friend Stacey (Andrea Bogart) arrive and the photographer decides to make up Stacey and Yellow Power Ranger, Sasha Craig as wolf-man models for a shoot on the roof. What we get for the next 10-15 minutes is one of the hottest shoots you can imagine. While we were denied in Greed/Axe, we get to see all of Bogart (she is a natural blond) and Craig as they put on a girl/girl show that steams the joint up. While this is going on Josie's boyfriend is trapped in the alley with the wolf-man. The switching from hot beauty to savage tearing and blood back and forth was an artistic treat.What's left after that? Well the wolf-man still wants mate and the chase is on into the LAPD headquarters where bodies are mangled and torn throughout as we reach the climax.Great effects as we watch Armstrong do a transformation into a wolf girl and back to human. This was Holliday's first story/screenplay. I wish he would do more.

I rented this movie, and I really wanted my money back after seeing it. This is the worst movie ever!! I could have made better "special effects" myself, and I'm not that good with computers... When the special effects started you could clearly see a change from "real" to "computer", it looked like a video game. And I heard that the Werewolf costume was originally a gorilla costume that was just slightly modified! It shows. You would think that they'd have enough money (+ talent and effort) to make an own costume. I read that the movie should have some sort of "erotic twist" don't really know if I agree on that. Well, I guess it was erotic enough if your a fourteen year old boy with absolutely no experience whatsoever. But really, don't watch this movie, it's a total waste of time!