![]() The full-on prosthetic make-up werewolf scenes are daft, but the rest of the time, when it’s just 'Jack Behaving Badly', Wolf is a joy.Ĭhristophe Gans’ lavish historical epic is fancifully based on the surprisingly real legend of the Beast of Gévaudan. ![]() There’s sterling support in the cast from David Hyde Pierce, Christopher Plummer and Richard Jenkins, and a great Ennio Morricone score too. He plays a washed-up editor who, after a wolf bite in Vermont, starts displaying the potent alpha-Jack charisma we expect, sweeping Michelle Pfeiffer off her feet and going to war with an oleaginous James Spader. ![]() But Nicholson as a wolf man is perfect casting. Perhaps only the director of Carnal Knowledge and Heartburn could have persuaded Jack Nicholson into it. ![]() Mike Nichols’ Wolf is a truly eccentric blockbuster: a supernatural horror romance that’s about corporate backstabbing at a publishing company as much as it is about howling and bloodletting. IGN praised Wolf Girl for its acting and look, while also criticizing it for its "underdeveloped characters and spotty transition".No studio would put $70m into a film like Wolf these days, but back in the ‘90s, spec scripts and star-director packages were the thing, and occasionally they resulted in something as mad as this. John Leonard of New York Magazine called the film a "vulgar fun". It was released in Canada under the title Blood Moon.Ĭritical reception has been mostly positive. Wolf Girl premiered on USA on October 16, 2001, after which it was released direct to video. Tim Curry was brought on to portray the circus's ringleader Harley and Grace Jones was cast as one of the show's freaks. Scott McClelland as The Amazing Pin Cushionįilming for Wolf Girl took place in Romania.Ana Maria Bazalan as Nadja the Rubber Girl.The film ends showing that Tara is still alive and now no longer suffers from hypertrichosis, but at the cost of her humanity. It is also revealed that Ryan shot the wolf and turned in its corpse, which satisfies the townspeople as they believed that she was a true werewolf. The circus is then shown leaving the town without Tara. A wolf appears and the film cuts away as a shot is fired. She implores him to shoot her with the last of her fading humanity, but he refuses. They are found by Ryan, whose attempts at soothing Tara are foiled when she sees that he is carrying a gun. Fleeing into the forest, Tara sheds her clothes and attacks one of her bullies, Krystal, by ripping out her tongue. Correctly assuming that she is responsible for Beau's death, the town forms a lynch mob. Later that night, under the influence of the drug, Tara attacks Harley during the show. Tara is forced to steal doses of the drug after Ryan tells her that he cannot obtain any more without his mother noticing. She kills him in self-defense and his body is discovered by the town. One of the town bullies, Beau, tries to kill Tara after she accidentally discovers that he has a micropenis. This is noticed by her fellow performers, however they keep quiet because the circus has become more financially stable after its host Harley notices that the town enjoys the more frightening aspects of the show. Tara experiences favorable hair loss, but also begins to have strange dreams and exhibit feral-like behaviors. He helps Tara obtain the drug by stealing it from his mother's lab. At their latest town she runs afoul of the town bullies but meets Ryan, a teenage boy whose mother is working on an experimental depilatory treatment. She is well loved by her fellow circus people, but is frequently ostracized by the local teens at the towns they visit. The film's plot concerns a girl who travels with a freak show because of her rare genetic disorder known as hypertrichosis.īorn into a financially suffering traveling freak show circus, Tara works as the show's "Wolf Girl" due to her hypertrichosis. It stars Tim Curry, Victoria Sanchez, Grace Jones, and Lesley Ann Warren. The film was released in theaters in Canada and Romania, in the United States it was released directly to television and in Mexico it was released direct-to-video. An international co-production of Canada and Romania. Wolf Girl (also known as Blood Moon) is a 2001 horror film directed by Thom Fitzgerald and written by Lori Lansens.
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