Bad Moon | | Cast : | Mariel Hemingway, Michael Paré | | Director : | Eric Red | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Widescreen, Closed-captioned, Dolby | | Released Date : | November 01, 1996 | | DVD Released Date : | October 03, 2000 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | December 07, 2004 | | Summary | Quit Surprising | Content
 | This a very solid Werewolf movie. The acting is not top notch nor is the filming. But for a Horror/werewolf movie it is very good. An the werewolf is probably the best looking I have ever seen. That is what I think of when I think of a werewolf. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 13, 2004 | | Summary | Not Just Bad Moon...Bad Movie | Content
| I'm a fan of werewolf flicks, but Bad Moon was just unwatchable. Michael Pare stars as Ted, an out of work photographer who becomes a werewolf when he is infected with lycanthropy in South America. After the attack, he moves back to Oregon and his sister invites him to stay with her.
While I liked the idea of Bad Moon, it suffered from some of the worse acting I've ever seen in a horror film. Ted and his sister's lines were abominable and were delivered with the emotional quality of vulcans. Plus, I thought the lengthy and involved sex scene in the movies opener rather unnecessary.
I'm giving this movie 1 star. And that's being kind. If you want a decent werewolf films watch Dog Soldiers or read Bitten by Armstrong. This film was sub par.
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| Rating | | | Date | May 25, 2004 | | Summary | Bad Moon (1996) | Content
| 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. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 01, 2004 | | Summary | I love this movie! | Content
| Okay, there are a couple of things that stink about this movie, so let's get that out of the way first. (1) Mariel Hemingway's acting sucks, (2) the cute blond kid's acting sucks, (3) Michael Pare's acting sucks slightly less, (4) the big transformation scene REALLY sucks--CGI at its sloppiest, and (5) some inane leaps in logic, like: Is Uncle Ted really so stupid that he thinks "family love" will cure him?
But I still gave it five stars. Why? Two main reasons: One, I love the idea of presenting the plot largely through the eyes of the dog, Thor. Thor acts circles around his human costars, and if, by the end of the movie, you aren't cheering him on as he races home to confront the werewolf, you must have a heart of stone. Two, the werewolf costume is fantastic. It is easily the best-looking, least-fakey werewolf I have ever seen. Despite the idiotic transformation scene, this werewolf looks ten times more impressive--and scary!--than any other. (Okay, the one in the big attack scene in the doctor's office in "The Howling" is a close second.)
Yes, you will groan at some of the dialogue. Yes, you will want the werewolf to rip off the cute blond kid's head. Yes, you will laugh heartily as you watch Ms. Hemingway struggle with the proverbial paper bag. Yes, there is an obligatory "final scare" which is totally stupid. But if you're in the mood for a fun little horror flick with some gore, an awesome monster, and a heroic dog, look no more! Need any more encouragement? This movie was written and directed by Eric Red, the genius who also gave us possibly the best vampire movie of all time, "Near Dark." |
| Rating | | | Date | January 23, 2004 | | Summary | Hangin's Too Good For 'Em | Content
| 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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