Never Cry Werewolf Movie
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When 16-year-old Loren (Nina Dobrev) and her family greet a new neighbor a good-looking single guy and his dog she senses something mysterious and dangerous about him. Her suspicions become further aroused when some of the locals begin disappearing one by one. As Loren becomes obsessed with her neighbors behavior, she is unaware that he is monitoring her just as closely like a hungry wolf stalks its prey at night. With the help of local TV hunting show personality Redd Tucker (Kevin Sorbo) and a delivery boy with a secret crush on attractive Loren, the unlikely trio prepare for a full-moon showdown against an immortal creature with insatiable bloodlust.
| Nina Dobrev | Loren Hansett |
| Peter Stebbings | Jared Martin |
| Spencer Van Wyck | Kyle Hansett |
| Melanie Leishman | Angie Bremlock |
| Sean O'Neill | Steven Kepkie |
| Kevin Sorbo | Redd Tucker |
| Greg Calderone | Guy Taylor |
| Kelly Fiddick | Clerk |
| Anwar Knight | Talk show host |
| Billy Otis | Charles Pope |
| Rebekah Boisvert | Prostitute #1 |
| Julie Sype | Prostitute #2 |
| Brenton Spencer |
4.70 out of 10 (261 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Not too bad....
posted on 20 Aug 2009*****WARNING!!!! SPOILERS!!!! **************This movie wasn't that bad, but I don't think it was that great either. In most films, werewolves are portrayed as hungry, psychotic animals that just wish to rip the hell out of everything and everyone in its' path. I actually enjoy those films, but it's nice to see a little bit more than that. Peter Stebbings' portrayal of the werewolf was perfect. He managed to be both seductive and dangerous, sly but crazy, all by the simple cock of his head or squint of his eye. He radiated with sexual tension that made his character very addicting. Nina Dobrev was equally as charming. I enjoyed her innocence, curiosity, and her childish fights with her brother. The werewolf was supposed to have found his soul-mate in her, but the whole premise reminded me of Little Red Riding Hood. It was a cute story, but it didn't focus as much on that relationship as I would have liked. Throughout the film, I began to feel that something was missing and wanted to see more interactions between Jared and Lauren. I thought the scene where Lauren is in the gun shop looking for weapons and a fight erupts, involving Jared's dog, is just too far-fetched and kind of ridiculous. Being underage, Lauren shouldn't even be in a gun shop, picking out any kind of weapon, even though she is with the chicken-delivery boy. And what kind of a person starts a ferocious fight in the middle of a crowded store..especially in a store that sells guns!! What did they think the outcome would be? I don't mind cheesiness, so I didn't expect exotic special effects, but there were some scenes that I just laughed at. I already knew the outcome of the story and would have loved to see it end a different way. I would have enjoyed the movie much, much more had the ending not been so predictable. So, I do recommend this film, if you're home to watch it. It had its' moments and those moments kept me watching. So, ENJOY!
Huge mess
posted on 28 May 2009The basic premise of this movie had potential: a supernatural being coincidentally finds a young woman who is a doppleganger for his dead soul mate. He pursues her, destroying those around her, in the quest to reunite with her. But wait - someone has already done that - it was called "Bram Stoker's Dracula", and Francis Coppola already did that about fifteen years ago. But OK, let's go with it. Same basic premise, but in this case, it's a werewolf instead of a vampire, and it's in Canada instead of England. OK, OK, I'm down with that. The werewolf guy is hot, the girl is pretty, she's got an annoying brother and the chicken delivery guy is hot for her... OK, forget it. It's a freaking mess. This movie is all about kicking butt and gory meat bag explosions. There's no heart to it at all. Next time, do yourself a favor - if Kevin Sorbo is in the cast, take a pass.
Immensely Enjoyable!
posted on 20 May 2009First note that I have different scales for Sci-Fi Channel Originals and regular movies - an 8 for this movie does not mean the same as an 8 for what you would go to the theaters to see. But amongst sci-fi channel movies, this was a classic!The characters were more or less believable, acting was okay, Kevin Sorbo was DELIGHTFUL as always, save for a few spots the special effects were pretty decent, some funny parts, some scary-ish parts (in a kid sort of way), all making for one very fun to watch movie.Only complaints were, 1, it looks like it was shot in 1980 or so, you know, with the kind of off lighting and low quality image; 2, the middle 30 minutes or so really seem to drag on; and 3, some of the werewolf shots are really bad, in one I actually got confused and thought the werewolf was a trick or treater wearing a really bad costume, because (I kid you not) you could actually see that he was wearing a monster glove, because you could see where it stopped and his real arm began.Overall, if you think you can overlook its flaws, and if you like some of the other sci-fi channel movies, you'll probably like this one. If not, stay away.
About a werewolf that lives next door.
posted on 16 May 2009I really didn't understand why some users said that they didn't like this movie. I loved it! It's about a guy that moves in next door by a 16 year old girl named Lauren. You can tell right away that he is interested in her and thinks she was someone he knew a long time before. Then on she finds herself discovering that he is a werewolf and he's after her. So just to sum this up he is a hot guy that's a werewolf who is kinda obsessed with the girl and is after her to make her his. So if you like the whole thriller/obsession/horror film this is perfect. I can say I really liked it and yes it does have some parts like the movie Fright Night but overall this movie was way better.
Thanks to performances that all seem to be in different movies this doesn't amount to much
posted on 17 Mar 2009Remake of Fright Night of sorts with a werewolf instead of a vampire. Amusing in a direct to TV sort of way but best viewed at 3am on SCIFI when you're too tired to actually take any of this seriously. Its does have some good performances (The two antagonists for example, deserve better) though they some times run counter to other performances, such as Kevin Sorbo, who play to the audience instead of to the material which creates a knowing edge that lessens any scares. Its a shame that everyone couldn't have been on the same page because there are times when the film has flashes of the minor horror masterpiece this could have been. Worth a shot f you can catch it on TV but otherwise take a pass.
Not Bad
posted on 05 Feb 2009jdanvers is correct, a small part of the plot resembles Dracula. However, this movie more closely resembles "Fright Night". Here's why. Kid notices something is wrong with next door neighbor, and comes to realize neighbor is a werewolf (ok, in Fright Night the neighbor is a vampire). Nobody will believe the kid. So, the kid enlists a wacky TV star to help destroy the monster. In fact, the movie is almost a remake, just substitute werewolf for vampire.Having said that, I actually enjoyed this movie. The actors were attractive, the plot moved rather well, and the actor playing the werewolf was pretty good. The special effects weren't horrible, although I don't understand why the werewolf always breathed and drooled all over the intended victims for extended periods until they managed to get away.Overall, you could do a lot worse, especially for a Sci Fi Channel original.
Never cry werewolf too much like Fright Night
posted on 14 Sep 2008I agree with you about being a blatant rip off of Fright Night. I mean it even stages some of the same scenes the same way Night did. Like when he brings home the first girl and takes her upstairs and Loren can see them through her window. The woman screams and the lights go out.. I mean come on. It was too similar to Fright Night which is one of my favorites. And that movie is 23 years old. The producers should have just gone ahead and remade Night. If it wasn't for Nina Dobrev, this would be unwatchable. Even with her it's still pretty lame. Pass on this one. This is one of those movies that SCI-FI channel just loves to show, instead of airing classic good stuff.
Better than it should be
posted on 29 Aug 2008"Never Cry Werewolf" is a really nice and impressive werewolf film with a few nice surprises.**SPOILERS**Moving into the neighborhood, Jared Martin, (Peter Stebblings) meets up with Loren Hansett, (Nina Dobrey) and her brother Kyle, (Spencer Van Wyck) who welcome him into the neighborhood. Although everyone else around her takes an instant shine to him, she has a nagging feeling about him that she thinks isn't right. The more she watches him across the house, the more she thinks he's a werewolf but despite going online for help, no one believes her story. After getting his friend Steven Kepkie, (Sean O'Neill) onto her side, a confrontation at a hardware store manages to get the attention of Redd Tucker, (Kevin Sorbo) the host of a local hunting show to believe her as well, and realizing that all of their actions have provoked the beasts' fury, they try to put an end to it's rampage before he takes them all out.The Good News: This was a relatively fun and enjoyable werewolf film. That the beginning of the film is so fun is due to the fact that it's strongly set-up by a fantastic story. This one builds up a really nice and effective mystery with many different kinds of great moves. The film decides to have the revelation come early in the story and that propels long segments devoted to the mystery, actually getting time to do something about it and responds with some great scenes. From the scenes of her spying from a distance, which are pretty creepy as they actually run with her seeing the killings first before doing the normal ones where he does nothing, allowing the film to run with the fantastic notion of her looking through history, from the internet, movies and books and trying to match what has been learned on the actual events, which is fun and quite interesting. The film's really deliberate pacing also produces the fact, and with a couple horror scenes spread throughout the plot allow it to use them in building up the mystery. Some of them, consisting of attacks that are witnessed from afar, are quite well with the several on the prostitutes early on being really good, and once it moves away, either out into the neighborhood or to the hardware store, it doesn't get worse with some top-notch action displayed in both scenes. The hardware store encounter is really fun since it comes with a better revelation than could've hoped for, a really tense stalking scene and some really helpful gore thrown in. It's all apart of the film's best part, it's last half-hour. This is really great, packed with action and fun confrontations, a couple moments of suspense and some more bloodshed thrown in. The rest of the gore in here is not bad either, as there's a clawed hand punched through a stomach from behind, slashed across the stomach, chest, neck and face, bites on the arms and shoulders and a complete meltdown to skin and bones, plus the wonderfully gory way that the lead werewolf is taken out in. The last bit here that works is the werewolf design, suggesting a powerful, intimidating creature with a massive build, large claws, huge fangs and a really memorable-looking snout, giving it more of wolf-like look than most other designs. It's really one of the best ones ever, and should've been shown off more. These here are the film's best points.The Bad News: This one here doesn't have too many flaws to it. The most pressing, but not-detrimental case against this one is the fact that the beginning of this is played out straight from other films nearly verbatim, and the fact that it's done in such a way allows it to be so obvious that it's ripping them off is something that will put some off. The fact that the film decides to hold off the werewolf until the end is something that is a crime, since the design is so great and memorable, that not being able to see it during the film is a real shame. This, of course, is due to the film's biggest flaw, the slow-building mystery. Because it's so strong and well-thought-out, it has to have a lot to be able to get all of it out to the audience and that means that most of the beginning half of the film is merely exposition. It can get dull since its about the mystery and gathering evidence, and the amount of time doing so is where the lesser time with the werewolf comes from, since it's so great and really deserved to be featured more. The longer build-up also forces the film into less, and shorter, action scenes as well. There isn't a whole lot of confronting the werewolf in here, and the few encounters, up until the ending at least, are all quite shorter than they should be, and are should've been dragged out a little more. These here are all that the film does wrong.The Final Verdict: A fairly fun werewolf entry, with a fun story and a bunch of good parts to it that makes it rather interesting. Give it a shot if you can get over the similarities or are in the mood for a rather fun and light-hearted werewolf romp, otherwise stick to the others in the genre for a more-traditional werewolf fix.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Brief Nudity
Make the movie you want to--not just the one you can!!
posted on 13 Aug 2008In 1981 John Landis brought the seminal werewolf film, An American Werewolf in London, to theatres. It wasn't received well, but it has since gone on to become a classic by which all others in the genre are to be judged. Why? Simple, Landis held out for his shooting star. He had a working script for the movie in the sixties, but no one would touch it. That's why he paid his dues and cut his teeth acting in crap films and directing movies like the Blues Brothers and Animal House. After he paid his dues he was finally given cart blanche to do his werewolf film, and it rocked.I bring this up because this movie was the bail of hay which broke this camel's back. I am a huge fan of the genre and every year horror movies seem to get dumber and dumber. Movies like Never Cry Werewolf don't help--not at all. When you have a million dollar idea, you don't try to get by on a buck ten.The story was flat out bad. Nina Dobrev's character sees one hooker and the next thing you know she's breaking out the silver like she lived in Lower East Proctor. Seriously, WTF? Why didn't her younger brother think it was weird that a grown man, a stranger would give him a ride to school on a motorcycle? For that matter, why didn't his mom, his sister, or anyone else? Also, I'm just curious, but why did the werewolf's dog turn into one of the skinless mutts from Resident Evil at a gunshow, and in broad daylight. Why did the werewolf even have a dog?The special effects were laughable. A sex criminal has three red lines on his neck, yet is said to have had his throat torn the Hell out. The werewolf looked like a pretty bad ass bear skin rug and was every bit as animated. Aren't lycnathropes supposed to be mobile? Why did the kid who was bitten look more like a tall Ghoulie than and actual lycanthropic understudy, and was that spine thing glued onto his shirt.Th acting was, well the acting wasn't half good, but it wasn't half bad either. In a more ambitious flick any deficits in the actors performance might have shown, but that was not the case here. Nina Dobrev, Greg Calderone, Peter Stebbings, and Kevin Sorbo did what they could and it wasn't much because this film was doomed. This brings me to my next point.People look at the horror genre nowadays and laugh. It is dominated by some of the most God awful films you'll ever see. I love horror films, but the preponderance of bad ones is destroying their marketability. I would be more understanding, but there are the Ginger Snaps films which prove a good horror movie can be made under the radar--and in Canada.Bretton Spencer and John Sheppard--you two can do better than this. I honestly don'tsee how you couldn't. Sometimes you have an idea in your head and you can see it so vividly, but end up having to compromise because someone else is footing the bill. To this I say follow John Landis' example. Pay your dues and bide your time honing your craft. This way you may be able to have a hand in creating a truly memorable horror film. Maybe that way you can actually make the movie you want to--not just the one you can!! I hope your next film is better and not another nail in the coffin of this genre.To anyone else reading, I say this. Don't try to make what you can't afford the budget for. It will only end up hurting you and breaking your heart when your idea is turned to crap for all to see. Do the right movie for the right money. Hell, with a budget of just $30,000 you can make a damn good short which can get your foot in the door. Just stay true. Don't sell yourself short and make a movie like this.
Just Awful...
posted on 31 May 2008Wow... I just finished watching this movie. The girl is cute. Thats about all this movie has going for it. The rest really sucks. Do not continue reading unless you want to know what makes this movie one of the worst movies I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot trust me. At the end when Kevin Sorbo is hanging from the tree with his arms and legs, then you see him spin the bullets around his 6-shooter handgun with both hands. Even the part when he drops his shotgun that is "silver plated" and it shatters into 3 pieces. Wow. Who writes this crap? Oh and lets not forget the crossbow the girl uses. These things should have over 100 pounds of tension and yet she is able to pull the string back with one hand. (Instead of using her foot and both hands like real crossbows.) Then she shoots one the broken parts from the "silver plated" shotgun barrel out of the crossbow... and kills him. And for you all that comparing it to "Fright Night" no way, this movies not even close to the same level.
Sorbo shines as a reluctant hero!
posted on 21 May 2008I really enjoyed this movie,if for no other reason than the fact that it was nice to see Kevin Sorbo play a guy who doesn't want to be a hero,but needs to know what kind of man he really is. Redd Tucker is a down and out ex-TV personality(he used to host a hunting show)who gets the attention of a young woman trying to prove that a neighbor is really a werewolf. He pours out his story to her(rather sarasticily,I might add)and despite his initial reluctance,ends up helping her in her quest. The special effects are really nice,especially the werewolf makeup and all-really awesome! If you're expecting something really scary,then you might be a bit disappointed by this because it wasn't that frightening at all! Overall, a good and enjoyable movie!
It may be a blatant rip-off of Fright Night, but Never Cry Werewolf is still plenty of fun
posted on 15 May 2008I usually don't like rip-offs to popular movies. Never Cry Werewolf happens to be an exception. For a Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie, it's well acted and made (Kevin Sorbo's role was unexpected and hilarious). Nina Dobrev, the young actress who played the lead role, was one of the best parts of the film. Not only is she sexy, she managed to carry the film throughout its 87 minute length (2 hours if you include commercials). Well, I enjoyed it very much. It felt very much like an old 80s horror film - fun, entertaining,some scares and plenty of humor. The film, while it does have some moments where you see blood, really isn't that bloody or gory. The gore scale is kept to a minimum. Which is for the best, I never can get into all the torture porn horror movies that are released just about every week. I have become ineffective against high amounts of graphic violence and gore.Paul Jones handled the special makeup and creature effects in the film. Before this, he's done two other werewolf films that I know of: The original Ginger Snaps and the ABC Family Original Movie Nature of the Beast (which was also good but a little bit too goofy).Never Cry Werewolf reminded me of both Fright Night and Disturbia.
Enjoyable, But Still One of the Most Blatant Rip-Offs
posted on 24 Aug 2009I'm certain this will not be the only review of this film that will declare this, but this film, while enjoyable by the standards set by Sci-Fi channel movies, is one of the most unabashed rip-offs of a film I have ever seen.To confirm what others have said, YES, this film does indeed borrow every single plot device imaginable from the 80's classic, Fright Night. It does this to such an obvious extent, that it makes the movie hard to enjoy on certain levels. First and foremost, there is no real suspense, or even curiosity when you can instantly tell that you have seen everything about this movie once before. It follows the Fright Night blueprint so closely, that anyone who remembers anything about FN will instantly be able to guess ahead as to where this movie is headed.This may have been made as an ode to Fright Nite, but no such declaration is ever made, leaving me to believe that it is simply the result of a lack of imagination, and originality on the part of the filmmakers.