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Summary: A horror film with heart.
Review: A scary, action-packed werewolf picture, with refreshing attention to its well-developed characters. The story is a unique twist on the genre, where a German Shepherd dog struggles to protect his family from a relative only he (and the audience) knows is a werewolf. Hemingway gives one of her best performances ever as a loving mother and sister, and is a welcome and sympathetic change from the standard horror movie female victim. Pare is excellent as the bad guy, in a believable and realistic portrayal of a werewolf, a good man schizophrenically becoming a violent danger to the family members he really loves. The dog is a movingly primal and protective force defending his family from an evil only he senses. Typically stylish and dynamic direction from Eric Red. I'm surprised this picture didn't receive much more attention when released.
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Summary: good werewolf fun
Review: adapted from the novel "thor", this movie is pretty good, filmed in great locations. tense interplay between doggy & the wolfman. another great performance from bryan adams lookalike michael pare.
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Summary: Howling Good Fun!!!
Review: BAD MOON has a heart and soul...along with great scares and a terrific premise. Very underated, this is a great rainy day flick! Other tan a few EFX shots that are a bit weak, BAD MOON ROCKS! Love that Thor!!! Howling good fun!!!
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Summary: Not bad - not bad at all!
Review: Bad Moon has a very cheesy box cover. I also don't remember it ever going to the theaters. And that's a shame, because this is really quite a good werewolf movie. It is far superior to most of the other films of its type. Why? Most werewolf movies feel the need to be gory for the sake of horror, and they do so with aplomb. I guess if you really like excessively gory films then such releases as "The Howling" and "An American Werewolf in London" (both of which I think are good films too) are right up your alley.Bad Moon isn't a gory film. It doesn't operate on a thin script and isn't mired down by bad acting or filming. This is actually a really nicely made film with B list actors. Decent acting can only get you so far though. If the script isn't any good, it doesn't matter. In this case, the script is one of the best I've come across for a horror film. The script takes the horror to an emotional level rather than a graphic level. The werewolf is someone we care about and the victims are people we care about. But this film is less about the werewolf than it is the discovery on the part of some of the characters of WHO the werewolf is. It could be argued that everyone except the dog is too stupid to realize that there even is a werewolf.....so I ask you, would you assume that a werewolf was at work in any given situation? Of course not. And this film is developed from a sense of reality rather than in some alternate reality where the existence of werewolves is a foregone conclusion. Oddly enough, this is a horror movie that the kids (albeit older ones) could watch with their parents. (I can't swear to it, but I think this film may have been a made-for-TV or made-for-cable film). Try this film on for size. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
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Summary: Bad Moon
Review: Certainly not "The Howling" of the 90s, but a stylish, entertaining little romp none-the-less. Mariel Hemingway (yes, daughter of good ol' Ernest) stars as a single mother who allows her strange brother to park his trailer and live by her home. Yet, once little bro (Michael Pare) begins to settle in, a werewolf starts to tear everyone to pieces. Surprisingly, these quickie provides some decent character development, good special effects, and respectable cinematography. Although this formula has been used, recycled, re-done so many times, "Bad Moon" proves that not all is lost when another werewolf picture is released. Director: Eric Red. Cast: Mariel Hemingway, Michael Pare. Rated R for violence, gore, nudity, sexual situations, and profanity. 83 minutes.
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Summary: Bad Moon (1996)
Review: Director: Eric Red
Cast: Mariel Hemingway, Michael Pare.
Running Time: 83 minutes.
Rated R for violence, gore, language, and sexual situations. What begins as a fairly cheesy take on "The Howling" premise develops into a scary, enjoyable horror film that is quick, taut, and surprisingly atmospheric. Mariel Hemingway stars as a single-mom who realizes that something is happening to her distant brother (Michael Pare). Although he as always been a little different, Hemingway decides that the best thing she can do is support him--so she allows him to stay in his trailer park on her property--bad idea. Her brother is a flesh-eating werewolf. Michael Pare is adequate as the mysterious man-turned-werewolf, showing that haunting despair of knowing that he is inflicting horror on those he loves. The special effects are adequate and the acting is solid; director Eric Red does a nice job of slimming the film down and taking out the useless material to reveal a good horror film with the bare essentials. "Bad Moon" received no critical acclaim or publicity, but it is a much better motion picture than expected. Not quite "The Howling", but not far off.
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Summary: Bad Moon (1996)
Review: Director: Eric Red
Cast: Mariel Hemingway, Michael Pare.
Running Time: 83 minutes.
Rated R for violence, gore, language, and sexual situations. What begins as a fairly cheesy take on "The Howling" premise develops into a scary, enjoyable horror film that is quick, taut, and surprisingly atmospheric. Mariel Hemingway stars as a single-mom who realizes that something is happening to her distant brother (Michael Pare). Although he as always been a little different, Hemingway decides that the best thing she can do is support him--so she allows him to stay in his trailer park on her property--bad idea. Her brother is a flesh-eating werewolf. Michael Pare is adequate as the mysterious man-turned-werewolf, showing that haunting despair of knowing that he is inflicting horror on those he loves. The special effects are adequate and the acting is solid; director Eric Red does a nice job of slimming the film down and taking out the useless material to reveal a good horror film with the bare essentials. "Bad Moon" received no critical acclaim or publicity, but it is a much better motion picture than expected. Not quite "The Howling", but not far off.
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Summary: blooddy and bad to the bone
Review: great werewold pic featuring the legendary Michael Pare(Eddie and The Cruisers, Streets Of Fire and The Virgina Suicides) as the werewolf who stalks the night. good performances all around. check it out, I wont tell nobody about this movie, Ill just say its good and hope you think the same as well
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Summary: Hangin's Too Good For 'Em
Review: How does this movie suck? Let me count the ways... No wait, I can't count that high. DEEP BLUE can't count that high!
There is only one possible meritorious use for this POS other than squashing an errant cockroach, levelling a wobbly table or welcoming the cleansing heat of cigarette butts being ground into its surface: Suffer through this abomination, then go to your library and find the novel it was based on. The book is called "Thor", it was written by a guy named Wayne Smith, and it is without doubt one of the ten or twelve best modern horror novels I've ever read. In fact, it is SO much better than this wretched waste of celluloid that it is obvious the producers of this dreck bought the movie rights and told one of their hack nephews "Yeah, it's about a werewolf and the family dog, gimme a script by, ah, what the hell, say next Tuesday," whereupon the aforementioned hack nephew made his uncle proud by giving him a script the following Sunday which was worth every minute of the wait. The book, "Thor", is so thouroughly good, and this movie, "Bad Moon" so astonishingly bad, that having read the former and endured the latter one is reduced to inarticultae sputterings of phrases of almost incoherent rage: Phrases like "Manicheean guilt"... "heresy"... "lynching"... "break the writer's fingers"... "put out the director's eyes"... "drain the producer's pool and send their girlfriends back to cheerleading camp"... "Force everyone involved with this film to take the Clintons into their homes for a year"...
Virtually everything wrong with letting Hollywood have free reign over film adaptations of splendid little books can be summed up here in this pointless, aimless, plotless, soulless, heartless, worthless piece of utter and irredeemable trash. Chunks, this movie blows.
Find the book. read the book. And for god's sake, if you are a director with any sense of integrity, make a GOOD movie of the book "Thor", by Wayne Smith. It deserves it.
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Summary: One of the best ever!
Review: I am a werewolf movie lover. If you put a werewolf in a movie, I already like it. That doesn't mean I can't judge the film though. Bad Moon is definitely one of the classics, or should be. It is on the level of The Wolf Man, The Howling, American Werewolf in London, and Silver Bullet. The actaul werewolf creature in Bad Moon is the best on-screen representation of the beast that I have ever seen. Every werewolf movie should make their wolf in the mold of this one. Big, slobbery, hairy, and best of all...violent. AND, it actually looks like a wolf man. Other movies they completely transform the guy into a wolf or just make the guy hairy. This version is the ultimate. If you like werewolves, BUY THIS MOVIE!
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