Load of rubbish!!

Let's be realistic.

Brilliant and touching

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Another reviewer described LYCANTHROPE as "interesting" but I'd have to disagree. This film is largely a waste of time and the only interesting thing about it is trying to work out how they spent three quarters of a million dollars on it because there's no discernible sign of any money having been spent anywhere on screen.The most laughable thing about this production is that it's set in the Amazon but was filmed out in a Californian wood somewhere. I'm sorry, but asking the viewer to pretend that a wood looks the same as a jungle is completely ridiculous. As for the back story, that a hole in the ozone layer is responsible for making a werewolf, that's ridiculous too. And you don't actually get to see any kind of monster, which is the biggest cheat of all, just some guy with cruddy make up on his face at one point.The only thing going for LYCANTHROPE is a handful of familiar cast members, who must have known that this was going to turn out to be junk. Robert Carradine is the lead and quite dreadful with it. Christopher Mitchum shows up too but wisely stays at the back of the shots wherever possible and generally stays inconspicuous. Best of all is Michael Winslow, the human sound effect machine from the POLICE ACADEMY series, bringing some of his trademark humour and charm to the production. Elsewhere you get a little cheesy gore, Carradine saying "If it bleeds we can kill it", a general copy of THE THING and PREDATOR atmosphere, and a random opening shower scene with lots of close ups of breasts. It's that kind of film.

I can't believe that this film currently has a 4+ rating as it is one of the worst films I've ever seen - and I've seen loads of low-budget genre films. As has been pointed out by another reviewer this film has no budget, doesn't even pretend to be set where it says it is, has a very half-assed cop-out explanation for not featuring any of the titular creatures and features some astonishingly bad acting. Worst of all, it's cosmically boring, with endless shots of either the sun or moon, people wandering through "the amazon" or sitting around in rooms spouting terrible dialogue.Everyone involved should be thoroughly ashamed of this complete waste of time.

Lycanthrope starts in a top secret Government laboratory somewhere underground in the middle of the Amazon, a lab where a team of scientists were conducting experiments into the depletion of the o-zone layer & the effects that the suns ultra violet rays have on animal & plant life. Unfortunately something has gone very wrong so the top brass in the American Government send in special forces man Bill Parker (producer Robert Carradine) & his sidekick Lee Davis (Michael Winslow) to escort Dr. Ivan Stein (Jeffery Alann Chase) & his wife Sheila (Rebecca Holden) to the lab, assess the situation & 'clean up' any mess there might be, have you lost the will to live yet? I had by this point. Some army bird named Rosary (Dalia Garcia) & military dude Cody (Bruce Gregory) also go along. Once there they discover the various mutilated corpses of the scientific team & some fat black guy wearing an American football shirt who thinks he's a Werewolf because he's been exposed to the suns ultra violet rays...Written & directed by Bob Cook who also has a small role in the film as a dead body Lycanthrope is a pretty bad film all round. First it's very clichéd & predictable, for instance the scientists in the team want to study the Werewolf guy while the army dudes just want to kill it. At least a couple of the character's are there merely to pad the film out & become victims, I would also imagine that the pseudo psycho analytic explanation for the Werewolf seemed like a good idea at the time but unfortunately it doesn't translate very well to the screen & it just comes off as completely ridiculous. I suppose the filmmakers wanted to mix the Eco-disaster film with plenty of preaching together with low budget horror, as far as I'm concerned it doesn't work. Having said that the films stuffed with loads of unintentionally hilarious & stupid dialogue, it moves along at a reasonable pace, it's fairly short & it's good for a few laughs.Director Cook was obviously working on a really low budget, the special effects are rubbish including a simple shot of the sun in the sky! Apparently set in the Amazon it is painfully obvious that it was shot in some local woods, every time the Amazon was mentioned I laughed! There isn't really a traditional Werewolf in Lycanthrope, only a fat guy who thinks he's one so forget about seeing one. There isn't much gore, only a few after-the-fact dead bodies & a severed hand.Technically Lycanthrope is rough & that's being kind, it's poorly made with very low production values. Now on to the single most interesting aspect of Lycanthrope, have you ever wondered what happened to various stars from the 80's & 90's? You know who I mean, people like Bill Murray, Steve Guttenberg & Rick Moranis. Well have you ever wondered what happened to the black guy from the Police Academy films who used to make all the funny noises? Wonder no more as I can reveal he is starring in crap like this! Yes, in case you want to know he does make lots of funny noises in this as well, talk about type casting! Unfortunately the budget was so low on Lycanthrope that they couldn't afford him the entire shoot so he was killed off with the first 40 odd minutes. Yep, Lycanthrope really is that low budget! I bet he & Steve Guttenberg could share some great 'crap films I've been in' stories during the Police Academy cast union party!Lycanthrope is a pretty crap film, it's badly made, it's stupid & there aren't any proper Werewolves in it. It's good for a few unintentional laughs & 'that guy from Police Academy' but otherwise there is very little here to recommend.

LYCANTHROPE takes our fear of the Ozone destruction one step further. A medical term LYCANTHROPY means a man that thinks he's a wolf. The ozone has caused a member of a scientific team to think he's a werewolf.Robert Carradine (Revenge of the Nerds) stars as a government agent investigating the events in the Amazon. His partner (and relief humor) is played by Michael Winslow (Police Academy). The film drags at first but picks up momentum as the Lycanthrope begins to kill the scientific team one by one.Strong cast with an outstanding performance by newcomer Dalia Garcia as Rosary (the Amazon guide) and Carradine.