In Steven C Miller’s intermittently effective film a supermoon turns those exposed to its light into werewolves – or rather people wearing hairy Halloween masks

Intermittently effective but grindingly repetitive, this lupine-themed horror posits a world where nearly a billion people have died after a supermoon turned anyone exposed to its light into a werewolf. A full year has passed, and in an unnamed city (San Juan, Puerto Rico and Los Angeles, California are listed as the locations used) folks are preparing for yet another supermoon-werewolf apocalypse by securing their homes with booby traps and arming themselves to the teeth.

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  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPMAEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Yeah, the review doesn’t rate the werewolves highly:

    The science-y bits are insultingly ill conceived, but that’s not really the point here; it’s all about those moments of transformation, the money shots common to all werewolf films, coups de cinema overseen by make-up and prosthetic designers and various effects (both special and visual) teams. Here the actual transitions are quite nifty, featuring lots of bulging veins and grisly-looking in-between stages as people turn into different kinds of snarling mammalian creatures. However, once they are done transforming, the masks or make-up or whatever the actors are clad in are so ineffectual they end up looking like a bunch of underlit extras in Halloween costumes recreating The Purge while howling.