Her groceries are delivered, she pays her rent by sliding her money under her door to the landlord, and she gets freaked out when someone keeps on ringing her doorbell. Leigh ( Naomi Watts) has not written a book in four years. All of this is coming to a head as the city starts to break down into anarchy. Between the bad news that she keeps on hearing from the media and the regrets that are weighing down on her, she has trouble healing. Any attempts to walk outside are met with extreme panic attacks. Refusing to leave her apartment, she has her food delivered and has only her radio and phone to hear what is going on in the outside world. Leigh is an author suffering from agoraphobia and refuses to leave her apartment. Summertime in New York in 1977 Author June E. The city is on a knife’s edge, a pressure-cooker about to explode into the incendiary 1977 New York blackout riots. It’s the notorious “Summer of Sam” and June only has to look out of her window to see the violence escalating with the brutal summer heat. She now lives alone in her South Bronx apartment, having all but cut herself off from the outside world. A little bit cheesy, a little bit fake but a whole lot of fun.June was once a known counter-culture figure, but that was a decade ago. Is it the best werewolf you’ll see in horror? No but it totally fits the style of monster the film was going for. A very clever decision as it builds the mystery and makes the full werewolf reveal worthwhile. For most of the film’s runtime, the attacks are kept close so all we see is claws and arms. Which brings us to the final thing about Desert Wolf and that is the werewolf itself. The moments when the dialogue seems more forced and wooden relates the moments when the film slows down.įor the most part the pacing is spot on but it does have the odd dragged out moment. The supporting cast all play their roles well and certainly take the subject material seriously enough. As does the idea of our lead questioning himself and doubting his own sense of reason.Īs characters go, Yotty’s sheriff is the highlight but not alone in keeping the tight 88 minutes moving along smoothly. As silly as this sounds, that made it seem all the more believable. Linking it to Native American folklore instead. The basis for Beau Yotty’s werewolf is one of the cleverer aspects. Done on a small budget but handled with love and care. Desert Wolf is a uniquely clever combination of classic werewolf horror. Less An American Werewolf in London and more a meshing of the classic horror, The Wolf Man and the more modern horror, Wolf. Could he somehow be linked to the killings and not even know it? Suspects come and go, yet the person whose behaviour seems to have changed the most is Garett himself. He has too fast though as a big celebration is due in the town soon and the mayor (Mark DeBoer) is putting him under serious pressure. Each death coincided with a full moon.įor local sheriff Garett (played by writer/director Beau Yotty) it’s a mystery that he just can’t solve. The attacks only seem to have one thing in common. Each victim looking like they were attacked by a wild animal and torn apart. In the small town of Junction City, Arizona a series of gruesome murders have taken place. Beau Yotty’s Desert Wolf isn’t doing anything new with the werewolf, however it is a fun homage to the monster movies of the 80s. The creature just doesn’t lend itself well to horror, limited and un-adaptable, once you’ve seen one chances are you’ve seen them all. The bad easily outweigh the good with only a handful being what you’d call ‘classics.’ Always with some trepidation do we press play on a werewolf horror.
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