WolfCop
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | WolfCop |
| Original title | WolfCop |
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| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 76 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lowell Dean |
| script | Lowell Dean |
| production |
Bernie Hernando , Deborah Marks , Danielle Masters , Hugh Patterson |
| music | Shooting guns |
| camera | Peter La Rocque |
| cut | Mark Montague |
| occupation | |
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WolfCop is a 2014 Canadian horror comedy directed by Lowell Dean , who also wrote the script . The film is the first production of CineCoup Film Accelerator and a kind of grindhouse horror film with handmade splatter effects , which was deliberately conceived as a trash film . The sequel Another WolfCop was released in 2017 .
action
Lou Garou (word play with French "loup garou" = werewolf) is a sergeant in the small town of Woodhaven. The alcoholic spends most of the time sleeping or in the nearby pub. His only friend, the gun nut and conspiracy theorist Higgins, gets him a new case that has something to do with satanic rituals in the forest. Lou isn't really interested and blames it on a party of heavy metal fans. But the chief urges him to investigate, especially since the annual Drink & Shoot Festival is coming up. Lou ends up in the middle of an occult ritual in which the new mayoral candidate is to be sacrificed.
Lou gets overwhelmed and wakes up the next morning with amazing skills. His senses are extremely sharpened and his wounds heal quickly. He begins to take a real interest in the case and runs into inconsistencies in the city administration. When barmaid Jessica invites him to a private session, he is attacked by a local gang. He turns into a werewolf and kills an attacker. Lou wakes up the next morning, handcuffed to Higgins' bed. It slowly dawns on him that something is wrong with him.
At the next full moon, Lou is held in the police station. He transforms into a werewolf again and against all common sense Higgins releases him and for the first time in his life Lou solves real cases on the streets, albeit with unimaginable brutality. After they get back to the police station, Jessica is already waiting for him. This stuns the werewolf and it turns out to be a shape shifter. The chief and Higgins are part of the conspiracy. The three shapeshifters have ruled the city for over three hundred years and require werewolf blood every few years to strengthen their powers.
The ritual is supposed to take place in the cemetery. But Officer Tina also finds out about the conspiracy. She can free Lou and together they do the shapeshifters.
production
The idea for the film came about as part of a social media competition called CineCoup - The Film Accelerator, in which the audience decides which film is to be funded. The very first trailer generated over 100,000 views on YouTube and suspected hype like that of Sharknado . The loose story was already clear with the first trailers and due to the hype the film finally managed to win the competition. The film was selected as one of five projects for the Banff World Media Festival and endowed with a million dollars. Filming took place in Regina , Saskatchewan , Saskatchewan and the surrounding area. After the zombie film 13 Eerie - We Prey for You, it was Dean's second feature film. The film was deliberately shot without CGI effects in order to appeal to the classic horror film audience. The special effects come from Emersen Ziffle and are based on latex effects and the use of artificial blood .
Influences of the film include superhero films and werewolf films such as the 1980s classic Teenwolf and American Werewolf , the films of the Howling series and modern werewolf films such as Wolfman or Big Bad Wolf . Overall, the film is a homage to the 1980s. The music, which partly comes from the local rock band Shooting Guns, is based on hard rock or hair metal and the old school hip-hop of the 1980s.
A second part is announced in the credits.
publication
WolfCop had its Canadian theatrical release on June 6, 2014 in Cineplex theaters . In Germany, it had its premiere on July 20 of the same year at the Cinestrange Film Festival . On November 18, 2014, DVD and Blu-Ray were released through Ascot Elite. Despite the sometimes very harsh splatter effects, the film was approved in Germany for people aged 16 and over .
reception
The film received a lot of early praise, including from USA Today , which called it the Citizen Kane of the werewolf films. The trash film could not quite live up to these high standards, even if it was received largely benevolently. In rotten tomatoes , the film received a rating of 68% based on 19 different reviews. The American trade magazine Fangoria gave it a rating of 4 (out of 5) points. The German film magazine Deadline described the film as " thoroughly entertaining and extremely entertaining trash grenade ". Virus awarded 6 out of 10 points and called the film a “ nice werewolf flick that is not funny enough for a comedy, not serious enough for a horror film ”, “but entertains every time and solely through the passion of the obvious fans who work here and the love of the Goredetail “had to score. However, the film was not only well-received. The Toronto Star highlighted the appealing special effects, but described the rest of the film as unspeakably bad. At the end of 2014 the film received the Jury's Special Award in the Fantasy Section of the 35th Oporto International Film Festival.
continuation
In 2017, the sequel Another WolfCop was released. Lowell Dean took over the direction again and in the title role is again seen Leo Fafard.
Web links
- WolfCop in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Everett-Green: Is social media the answer for Canada's indie filmmakers? The Globe and Mail , December 8, 2012, accessed September 12, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Trey Barrineau: The 'WolfCop' trailer is unlike anything you've ever seen. USA Today , April 28, 2014; accessed September 13, 2015 .
- ↑ Craig Anderson: Q + A: Director Lowell Dean on his CineCoup Top Five Finalist WOLFCOP. (No longer available online.) Fangoria , June 4, 2013, archived from the original on September 7, 2015 ; accessed on September 12, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Wolfcop. Actionfreunde.de, November 14, 2014, accessed on September 13, 2015 .
- ↑ WolfCop in the online film database
- ↑ Wolfcop. Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved September 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Craig Anderson: "WOLFCOP" (Movie Review). (No longer available online.) Fangoria, June 4, 2014, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on September 12, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Daniel Gores: Wolfcop . In: Deadline . No. 48 , June 2014, p 107 .
- ↑ Wolfcop - The Confessions of Acquaintances . In: Virus . No. 62 (December / January), 2015, p. 76 .
- ↑ Bruce DeMara: Wolfcop as horror / comedy mostly howlingly bad: review. Toronto Star , June 12, 2014, accessed September 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Addendum to the film criticism about Wolfcop on popshot.over-blog.de, published on January 15, 2016, accessed on January 19, 2016.
