Film Review: Weedwolf (2011)

 

In the small Texas town of Normal a rampaging werewolf with a nose for the devil's lettuce is slaughtering stoners. 

That's basically it.

I bet you thought the same thing I did "Wow, somebody tried to make their own version of Cocaine Bear except with  different combination of drug + animal" 

So I was a bit surprised to find out that Weedwolf  came out in 2011 but to be fair, this whole movie is a long cavalcade of baffling. 

Let me try and quickly pigeonhole Weedwolf.  It's a Stoner-Grindhouse-Guerilla-Horror-Comedy that also throws out random boobs to add some exploitation titiliation in there. 

Seriously. The opening credits are about 50% boobs and the film-makers will literally throw a pair of bare boobs on screen  at odd moments. 

There are other strange film-making choices. To give it that vintage, lost VHS look, the director decided to film everything with a potato and then run the whole thing through the grungiest filters they could find.  This film hurt my eyes in a way that 4th generation VHS anime fansubs never managed. 

The humour is low-brow. If it's not about racism, it's about bodily functions or the sheriff's intellectually-challenged son.  In yet another strange film-making choice, some "gags" have a random, intercut reaction shot. You know, like you might get from a standup comedy show - except this is a film.  I think they were trying to be clever here. 

The special effects are...not.  A Walmart werewolf mask and some ketchup. 

The actors are...not. The entire thing is put together with random people who were available at the time.

And last but not least there's the story.

I'm not entirely convinced there was a script at any point.  Weedwolf  lurches from scene to scene without any kind of flow and the whole thing looks made up on the spot. Even by low-low-budget standards this film looks rickety.

Having said all that, Weedwolf is definitely a viewing experience. I spent the whole film wondering "What the bloody hell am I watching" so if they got nothing else right - and believe me, they didn't -  the people involved managed to make something memorable. 

If you reeeeeally like ultra-low budget oddities,  or hate your eyes, then check out Weedwolf.