Directed by Michael Giacchino
Written by Heather Quinn and Peter Cameron
Starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Laura Donnelly and Harriet Sansom Harris
USA, 2022
The latest offering in a long string of Marvel offerings on Disney+, WEREWOLF BY NIGHT is a throwback to the Universal monster movies of old. That’s the main reason I wanted to watch it. Black and white? Atmospheric? Werewolves? Right up my alley.
The other reason is because it’s less than an hour long. That’s a refreshing run time at a time when most Marvel properties are either three-hour-long movies or multiple part TV shows.
Gael Garcia Bernal stars as Jack Russell, a werewolf (get it?) who goes undercover as a monster hunter at a sort of monster hunting lodge on the eve of a big important monster hunt. Turns out, the monster being hunted is his buddy (a big CGI creature) and he’s got to join the ranks of the hunters in order to get his buddy out of there.
It’s an important night because whoever wins the hunt gets to inherit the Bloodstone which is a magical rock that… I don’t know. It does something. Even in Marvel movie that’s less than an hour long they STILL lost me on exposition. But, don’t let that give you the wrong idea – the movie’s not boring. In fact, it’s pretty great. Nice, simple, to the point.
It actually left me wanting more WEREWOLF BY NIGHT adventures. Hopefully he’ll be back.
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