 Thank you for checking out this no spoilers movie review This is for the 1996 Werewolf film bad moon, which I'm sure people will be able to just figure it out based off the title bad moon and Actually the cover art the poster art whatever you want to call it looks really good It's kind of like a really cool looking drawn werewolf face with one of its eyes being a full moon which That kind of drew me in plus the fact that I like werewolf films I think that werewolves are vastly underutilized in a Genre aware we're focusing very heavily at least for a while on vampires We still see a good amount of vampire stuff here and there, but Unbelievably focusing on things like zombies have for a while and still doing it I just feel like werewolves are a little underserved and I would like to see it a lot more So before watching this film I started thinking to myself Why is it that we don't see more werewolf films and I was like why is it why is it and dawned on me? It's got to be because it's more expensive than doing something like a Vampire or a zombie or you know something else Because if you think about it in order to have a successful werewolf film the werewolf itself has to look good Now you can go the CGI route and do it totally CGI But that doesn't really hold up all that well Plus I feel like you'd have to have a really good CGI team to pull that off to the degree that people would be looking for So the best way to go is practical effects to to make an actual suit with a nice You know mask or animatronic head which in this film bad moon. They actually used an animatronic head that looks really good So Pricy money. It's more expensive. So that's that that's what I came up with That's what makes the most sense to me, but out there put some comments down here. Let me know Do you think that that's valid? Do you have another idea or do you know for sure? Let me know anyway Let's get into bad moon from 1996 by Eric Redd, which people say who is Eric Redd? Well, Eric Redd is the person who directed this film and was involved a bit in the screenplay hasn't done like anything else pretty much and You'll you might know why if you've seen bad moon. Yeah, I might know why so I got my you know Sorry, I got my notes on my phone. Jesus. I Got my notes on my phone So I'll be going through in the order as usual as I was watching as things occurred to me. So Director Eric Redd. So he isn't known for a whole lot actually But he did write the script for the 1986 version of the movie the hitcher Yes, the one was see Thomas Howe and Rucker Hauer which is a good watch. It's a fun film I would definitely recommend that so after seeing bad moon I would say that Eric Redd's best achievement in film is still the hitcher from 1986 Check that out if you haven't seen it. So this apparently based on a novel by Wayne Smith And the name in the novel is called Thor now Thor is a dog in the film and apparently the movie shifted focus literally While perspective mainly From what the book did the book was actually from the perspective mainly of the dog Whose name is Thor and so one of the issues that I see in this film is that that kind of shift It's one of these things kind of like with Josh Mallerman's bird box book then when it went to the movie on Netflix That that movie was about Well, the book was about someone who couldn't really use their sight and so in the book As you're reading from the perspective of someone who can't use their sight It's very effective. You also have no sight in that sense but then when you take that story and you put it in a Visual medium then you lose a lot It just doesn't work the same and so I think it's the same thing with this where I guarantee the book is a lot Better than the film. It's probably one of those things where you lose a lot going from the perspective of the dog to going from Really perspective of no one. I mean, it's kind of like an outsider's watching as an audience member You're just watching what these people are doing. There's not a whole lot of perspective at all in this. It's just observation really I mean the dog is heavily featured and they try to focus as much as they can on the dog But the problem is it's a real dog. It's not CGI or anything can't make the dog do certain things Also how on film are you supposed to like really have a dog's perspective other when other other than doing like a Load of the ground POV shot with a camera, you know You can't get the dog's thoughts or anything like that and if someone could pull that off hats off to them That'd be amazing. So I just feel like You know, maybe in the beginning this wasn't the novel to choose to make a movie out of it Just does not translate. So you'll know my opinion now on this. I I think this movie sucks. It's not good I'll just tell you that right now. So it didn't do well in theaters either when it came out and it lost it lost six million dollars So from what I made in the box office to what the budget was $6 million in between there in that gap Not good. So you can see why maybe Eric Redd isn't very well known because maybe he didn't get much work after that Yeah So within this film when it first starts off, they immediately go for the sex in the gore And that's that's a trick that a lot of filmmakers will use to be like grab people pull them in start exciting Get them the stuff that you know, they're there for you for the sex appeal for the gore for the scares You know for the creature and then that's the thing is you get all this stuff like Immediately and it's great and that set me up. I was like, okay, here we go but then they get significantly back down from that for a very long amount of time and Those types of scenes are very far and few are few and far between Sorry, I just came from work They're very few and far between and then it just really becomes a slog watching this film because when you start with such such awesome Expectations like they did and they show you the werewolf early on and it looks great like the actual body suit portion of it is Okay, but the face the animatronic head looks so good. That's what I'm saying like practical effects Just awesome. And so like that set it up. I was like, all right, I'm ready for this and then it's just It's a slog and I'll talk a little bit more about why so one of the characters in this is one of the key characters is unbelievably suspicious Immediately in the film stays suspicious has a lot of behaviors and actions That just are over the top for what someone in that situation would be doing and trying to act And it's just it doesn't feel natural for the story and it's just it doesn't work It just does not work in my opinion. I think it's it's poorly done Um, like I said the animatronic will face where we'll face great. There's no subtext in this film whatsoever what you were seeing is Literally what you're getting on the screen and I really really hate these types of films It's like you're just spoon feeding the audience you're saying here you go idiot You just like film any film, right? You don't need to think about it You don't want a good story just eat it eat it shut up and be happy And I just hate films like this you got to have at least some subtext like give me some underlying story Give me some underlying like real theme or fun theme or interesting thing Give me something and this film gives you nothing it gives you nothing and it leaves you Regretting your choice of watching it in my opinion although. I know I guarantee there's gonna be someone out there Who will comment down here and be like actually I really have fond memories of this film I saw it when I was young or I watched it recently and I still like it for some reason And that's fine. You know, obviously this is just my opinion. I hate it personally It does not do anything for me, but if it if it does for you, that's that's great The acting sucks and the dialogue doesn't help at all So it's one of those situations where it's hard to find it's hard to figure out Is the actor not good or are all the actors in this instance not good? Or is it a situation where they would do a fine job except the dialogue is so poorly written that they just can't deliver it properly Because it's just poorly written or is it a situation where you know, they're bad actors or is it a combination of the two? I would assume it's a little bit of a combination of the two where the actors are just You know, okay actors and if you give them the right material they could do a pretty good job But the material was bad too. So it's just all comes out So it makes it for some really cringy dialogue like the dialogue is garbage. It is so bad It's so bad. So there's a standoff of sorts in this film Between two characters and it is ridiculously long. Nothing is happening and you're really just sitting there like We're still doing this right now Like we're not gonna move the film at all and that's the thing like this movie is a slog It just goes at this snails pace and they're never pay off And it's just it's like they were just trying to hit a certain runtime of the film and they're just like oh man Yeah, we got to take some we got to do some long scenes here because other than why otherwise We're not gonna hit our quota for runtime ridiculous So the the set feels really confined though and this is where like I like confined sets sometimes But when it feels like it should be confined in this instance, there's a lot of outdoor portions but it feels confined and it's a bad thing in this instance because You're Unrealistically keeping the characters within this small space that's outdoors and it doesn't make any sense like these people can easily Go elsewhere and they would go elsewhere and they should go elsewhere But they're staying around this little area which leads you to believe that they had a very small set Or they were just doing it because of cost. I don't know or it actually looks at At certain times it looks like maybe it's real or maybe it's on a soundstage I don't know so it could have really been a situation where it was a set on a soundstage And they were just like we just have like this one these one or two set sets and that's all we got That's all that's in the budget. So we just got to work with that keep it small it does not do any service to the to the film and Yeah, the story suffers greatly for it and the characters What they where they can do what they can do is severely limited Which just kills a lot of what feels real because it doesn't feel real I could like I said before I could see where the book is probably good The the idea behind the book as I did research on it sounds like it could be a really good book So I would recommend reading the bad moon book. I don't recommend seeing this movie. Obviously as you can tell So it changes an attitude of one of the key characters in this film And it's actually the same character that's acting a very suspicious way And and it there doesn't seem to be a real catalyst for it or a real reason for it It's just kind of towards the end ish There's just like this switch that goes off and it's like this person's all of a sudden acting very different and very weird And it doesn't make any sense like I Know and I mean to be honest like characters don't make sense in this film at all like their motivations are unbelievably one-dimensional It's there's no depth. It's just garbage. It's trash I do have to say one thing I kind of laughed at that. I thought was cool was in the background being a werewolf movie They had a Coors like can at one point The silver bullet as we all know so I was like ha ha someone's got a sense of humor. That's kind of funny I like that And the end the this is this is the biggest thing for me Inevitably a lot of these werewolf films will want to show you a transformation I feel like when you do a werewolf film There's this expectation that you know the audience has that they got to see the transformation So you can't just do the oh he changes off he or she changes off screen And then out pops up in there the werewolf because people you're really pissed at that But what's worse is when your transformation scene looks terrible and this one is just it's bad So I laughed out loud when the transformation was happening and just think about like what effects looked like in 1996 and film and you'll probably Get an idea of what was going on in this and the transformation is just it's laughable It's unbelievably laughable like I said I laughed out loud and I was watching this film by myself and it takes a Lot for me to laugh when I'm on my own I I mainly only laugh in like social settings out loud that is like internally I'll laugh in my head But I laughed out loud it caught me off guard It was so bad and it is laugh inducing so I guess if you really want to know what this is all about At least just pull up the movie and then just like fast forward to just the transformation scene And check that out and how bad it is So the last thing I'd written is something I kind of already covered that you know Some stories just don't translate to film and that is 100% the situation with this film The source material like I said is probably a good book It probably works really well But they should have realized that when they were going to write the screenplay this does not translate to the screen You cannot do it from a dog's perspective and have it work and the whole point of the story sounds like it's from the dog's Perspective when I read a little bit of the synopsis of it I understand that the story is Specifically for a dog's perspective and that's why it works And so for them to take that out of it and should be like I mean the dogs here, but there's no perspective It doesn't work at all it bombs so giving this a rating out of five stars with half stars in play One is this is a one-star film and the reason I'm even gonna give it one star instead of a half And I don't give zero stars. I don't do that half is the lowest so because you get a half just for effort So the reason I gave it that extra half for a one-star is because the werewolf looks good And that very first scene of you know the sex in the gore is a really good scene that really you know sets the stage But it's just a crazy disappointment after that. So one star on this one. It is bad, but Please please put your comments down here. What are your feelings? You agree with me? Do you not agree with me? It's fine. Either way. I am totally good with it But for me personally trash it shouldn't be called bad moon It should just be called bad movie because this is a bad movie. Anyway, yeah, you killed My hopes and dreams. I really went into this film like excited because I'm like I haven't seen this one It's a werewolf movie. I really like werewolves. So I'm excited and then Me after the film was a very different me a very sad me Terrible anyway, thank you everyone for checking this out. 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