He’s a wolf. He’s a cop. It’s a review. Three-word sentences.
Lou is a sheriff’s deputy in a small town called “Woodhaven”. He’s not a very good deputy, however. He’s a drunk, constantly late and always trying to get out of doing actual police work. One night when he is investigating a disturbance call from the town crazy “Willie”, Lou finds a man strung up in a tree and then he blacks outs. When Lou wakes in the morning he finds that he has a pentagram literally carved into his chest. Lou’s day only gets worse from there.
Lou starts noticing strange things happening to him. He shaves but the hair grows immediately back. He can smell things and hear things from literally a miles away. Lou starts taking all the clues from this and the events that he can remember from the prior night and begins researching. Doing the only real bit of police work that anyone has seen him do, ever.
That night as Lou is drinking at his usual spot, the bartender, Jessica, serves Lou up several shots with the promise of more adventurous escapades to follow. Lou throws back the shots but feels a bit ill and runs to the bathroom. After vomiting in the sink, Lou needs to take a piss. In the process, things get very nasty, very quickly. Just as suddenly as Lou transforms into a werewolf, he is attacked by some thugs. Lou easily dispatches them and runs out of the bar. When he comes to again, Willie has chained him to a bed for his own safety. Once Lou is coherent, Willie shows him a videotape of what happened to him the prior night and Lou can’t believe his eyes. He has become a werewolf.
Wolfcop ends up being a pretty great movie, however, it is a VERY slow start. It wasn’t until about the 30-45min mark before I actually started really enjoying it. Until there was some exposition to flesh out the story, but it really dragged all that info across far too much time. Once the 45min mark hit and he actually changed into the werewolf, the movie chugged on right up until the end credits.
I went into this movie expecting a Troma level of quality and came away from it impressed that it was much better than that. The writing is decent to excellent, especially for the character of Willie. Decent enough acting. Nothing came off as people that were just phoning it in. Special effects are really good. The transformation of Lou into Wolfcop is gruesome and gory, but not something I had seen before in this style of movie.
Wolfcop, much like almost EVERY OTHER MOVIE out there now, sets itself up for a sequel and even goes so far as to give a release date. A bit ambitious and possibly fool-hearted, but I admire their determination. It’s on Netflix right now. So if you have a subscription, it’s already free, and I would recommend watching it. Just know that it starts slow, but once “it’s on” WolfCop doesn’t let up.
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