The Wolf of Snow Hollow

-

                                     

                                             The Wolf of Snow Hollow Review: A Quirky Werewolf Movie | Den of Geek

  This photo belongs to Orion Classics. This was a film that came out in limited release this year over the pandemic. Movies like that, do not generally catch my attention. For some reason I just decided that I had to watch this trailer. It stuck with me, to the point when I saw it on Amazon today, my curiosity got the best of me.

 The small town of Snow Hollow has multiple bodies start to pile up during several consecutive full moons. Police officer John Marshal (Jim Cummings) is losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father.  Marshall struggles to remind himself there's no such thing as werewolves, no matter how much the evidence says otherwise.

   I do want to high light a few of the performances of the film. This does happen to be the final film of Robert Foster. Foster plays Marshal's father, and the town sheriff. He has been in many great films through out his career, such as "The Descendants", "Jackie Brown", and "Mulholland Drive". "Wolf of Snow Hollow" was a fun send off for him.  Jim Cummings is the highlight of the film for me. He is responsible for ninety-nine percent of the comedy, which he nails. Not only does he have to handle the comedy, his character has to handle the emotional lows. I have lived through that with my family, with the alcoholism.    

     I do want to hit on the werewolf it self for a moment. Off the bat, the design of it is amazing. Also, I could be reading too much into this but here it goes. I feel like the werewolf also is kind of like the beast on his back, like addiction and anger. Once the beast is vanquished, he can heal.  Who knows, I could be reaching though?

     The biggest hump this film has to get over is the tones. This movie is considered a horror comedy. If these tones don't mesh the film wont work. The way that Cumming's character, John spirals in his anger, holds it together. If they had brought the comedy outside his character, I don't think it would have worked.  The best way to say it is "it's funny cause he's mean".  When the murder happens it does not feel weird.   

   This is something that I have to say I was not expecting, but I am glad I got to watch. 

GRADE: A 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Unfriended: Dark Web

-
Image
    I would be the first to admit, when the original "Unfriended" dropped in 2014, I was not expecting to enjoy it. I was pleasantly surprised with what I saw. I always thought though, there is no need to make a sequel. Alas.. we fast forward to 2018, and there is a sequel.     The story revolves around Matias, who finds a great laptop, in his local internet cafe's lost and found. Since it has been there for weeks, he takes it. Later that night, while playing a game night over Skype, he begins to discover some terrible things.    One of the problems that plagued both of the films was the acting. In most of these cases, the actors from these films, do not have a lot of experience. It unfortunately, caries over to this film. When the story got to the climax, the line delivery got a little rough.    What really worked for the first one, was essentially, everyone was a terrible person. As the story progresses, you find out the terrible things t...
Read more

Triple 9

-
Image
     When it comes to cop films, for the most part, I tend to be a huge fan. When this came out, I was not very sure what to expect from it because there was such little press for it.     A professional group of thieves lead by Michael Atwood (Chiwetel Ejiofor) does the biding of Irina Vlaslov ( Kate Winslet). The guys want out of her buiding, but her being a big player in the Russian mafia, she gets what she wants. She drags the crew into a final heist with a huge payoff, what could possibly go wrong?        The biggest thing that hurt this film was the scope was so huge for this film with how many characters it has. It is hard to care or, for that matter get to know any Of the characters when the time spent with them is so short. On top of that, this film does not go in any new directions for the crime thrillers. I feel like if they may have added twenty to thirty minutes to get to know all the characters it may have added an edge it do...
Read more

The Ridiculous Six

-
Image
   The Ridiculous Six is the start of the long contract that Adam Sandler signed with Netflix. It comes in the form of the spoof of the classic Magnificent 7.      In the story it surrounds White Knife (Adam Sandler) and his seemingly perfect life with the apache tribe. Things get a little messy when his long absent father (Nick Nolte) shows up and is subsequently kidnapped. Fifty thousand dollars is needed to set him free, so White Knife takes it upon himself to rob the terrible people of the West to get his father back. Along the way he finds out that he has many other brothers in the shape of Taylor Lautner, Terry Crews, Rob Schneider, Jorge Garcia, and Luke Wilson.      Through most of the later of Sandler's Carter you could at least count on his movies being entertaining. This film seemed choppy in places when it came to the story. None of the jokes seemed to really work. It's hard to say but Sandler has done so much better even in recent...
Read more