Title
– Wolf Cop
Language
– English
Genre- action,
werewolf
Inept
and alcoholic policeman, Lou Garou goes out to investigate what he
thinks are kids drinking in the woods and wakes up the following
morning with a pentagram carved in his chest and no memory of what
happened. Things only get worse when, at the next full moon Lou
finds himself turning into a werewolf. As well as having to cope with
his new transformations Lou has to work out if his new situation has
anything to do with the upcoming eclipses and the events around his
father's death.
So,
as the title says Wolf cop is about a cop who becomes a werewolf. In
some ways it is similar to Teen wolf. At the start of the film
Lou is inept and useless at his job, he is constanly drunk and would
rather spend his time at the bar than go out to do proper police
work. As the film goes on and thanks to the wolf transformation
Lou starts to change and follow up on the calls that come In, he even
takes it upon himself to start to investigate his transformation and
any connection it may have to the events leading to his dad’s
death. I must state that the similarly to Teen wolf only go as
far as the wolf’s effect on the main character (and may be the odd
Easter egg), wolf cop is not a kids film and even with his new
attitude Lou is still a useless cop (and never one plays basketball).
One
of the more original things about Wolf cop is how the curse is passed
on, unlike most other films the curse is not passed on by the bite of
another lycanthrope but by a ceremony. There is a reason
for the change but due to spoilers I can’t say why.
Of
course we have to speak about the most important part of any werewolf
film and this the transformation and wolf cop doesn’t disappoint.
They change itself is more ‘Hemlock Grove’ than ‘American
werewolf in London’ in that Lou sheds his skin ripping the wolf
form out of his human one as a pose to his physical form actually
changing and he leaves his shed skin at the scene of the
transformation He does however show the the change is very
painful, like the transformation in ‘ American werewolf’.
The wolf form itself is more humanoid looking like the wolf man
or Beast from the X-Men movies. It is nice to see the change
more than once as there are a few films out there which seem to pore
most of their budget into the first transformation and then it is
never seen again.
The
effects in the film are of a good standard overall, as well as the
wolf we have the main villains (I’m not going to say too much about
them for spoiler reasons) but also the hole feel to the film is good.
Again I have found with some films that the budget seems to get
spent on the monster and nothing else but wolf cop looks the part all
the way through.
Wolf
cop could have been an over the top gore fest which would have taken
away from the film, there is a bit of gore and blood, it is a
werewolf film after all but it felt like the right amount
