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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 40573
Released: April 15, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A new breed of horror roams the streets of Los Angeles. It's the Darkwolf, a vicious werewolf with a thirst for blood--and a lust for Josie, a sexy, unsuspecting woman with a mysterious power she is only to beginning to understand. Once the Darkwolf catches Josie's scent, nothing can stop his insatiable hunger to mate with her…and he'll kill anyone who gets in his way!
Description of Darkwolf:
Darkwolf, a half-breed hybrid werewolf, is terrorizing the streets of L.A. with evil plans to take over the world. Following on the bloody trail is strong yet sensitive L.A.P.D. detective Steve Turley (Ryan Alosio). Steve is part of a special investigative team that's tracking this very particular (and hairy) killer. It's up to him to destroy Darkwolf before he/it mates with a purebred, which will secure the future of the werewolf lineage. Meanwhile, Steve clues into the fact that his cute gal pal Josie (Samaire Armstrong) may be more than she seems as she starts going through a series of inexplicable "changes." Looking a lot like Melrose Place extras, the inspired and often nude cast do their very best to battle horrific dialogue, a nonsensical script, and a barely there budget. On the plus side, Tippi Hendren (The Birds) has a small role. Darkwolf is half man, half beast, and pure schlock. --Matt Wold
Darkwolf Reviews:
Unfairly Savaged 
2007-10-04 - Frankly I'm astonished by some of the nasty reviews this film has garnered. Admittedly "Darkwolf" has its faults: the acting is negligible (though not incompetent); the werewolf itself seems a nondescript combo of bear and miniature draft horse; worst of all, the central idea of a hybrid werewolf hunting down a purebred mate in Los Angeles, seems like comic book stuff. Nevertheless, the film's pace is excellent: never a dull moment in the entire flick--with action sequences that are thrilling, though easy on the special effects.
Now about midway through the film, there comes a scene that can only be described as perfection. Two nude models are going through a photo shoot on a moonlit rooftop. In Gothic makeup, bodies glistening, they perform a feverish lesbian dance to some fantastic music; meanwhile in a nearby alley a young man is being torn to pieces by the lycanthrope. The scene keeps shifting back and forth from the alleyway butchery to the sensual dance, and the effect is indescribable but exhilarating! I submit that for those six or seven minutes "Darkwolf" touches greatness--extremely beautiful, intelligent filmmaking. That alone elevates it to the level of "classic," which is far above the norm for werewolf films.
GREAT MOVIE
2007-01-04 - IF YOU LIKE WEREWOLF WOLF I'D RECCOMED THIS
ONE ALSO SASH WILLIMS FROM POWER RANGERS LIGHTSPEED RESCUE IS IN THE MOVIE
Terrible 
2006-02-20 - I collect werewolf movies and own over 15 of them. Darkwolf is by far the worst I own. Do not buy this movie.
just average and nothing more 
2006-01-29 - This movie was just as average movie but it could, if they put more money into it(it showed that little money was put into it), be a better movie.
The movie is a low budget movie(no surprise here) and the movie starts out at a strip club. that's a plus in my book, and breast flashing is happening within the frst few minutes. WOW! what a great way to take your mind off a mediocre movie.
Now, there some parts in the movie that can be scary but who...who will be scared of the werewolf? IT's a suit for crying out loud. Atl east tht's what it looked like. i was expecting to the see the zipper in the back. SO, that obviously is not a plus, unless you seeing a fake werewolf in a horror movie. SCARY!!
Well, it is good to know that "darkwolf" makes fun of its self, which wouldn't have been hard to do anyway. There are many things that they do like: plastic guns(they thought you wouldn't notice in that scene),and CRAP ugly dialogue. Who wrote this? This really held the actors in this movie from breaking out.
The nudity is great but it is just trying for to forget how bad it is and see skin. Well, it didn't work.
Now on to the acting: Samaire Armstrong was great. This was her first major role and she did a great job ,dispite god-awful dialouge. So, i think yoo can expect alot of things out of her(STAY Alive, Just my luck , and It's a boy girl thing-all coming out in 2006). can you say future star?Kane hoddler really had an average performance but i can say one thing: he some pecs of steel. Not really much t o ay onthe acting besides that.
The audio is on'e of the movie's highlights. It got a little repititve but the music itself was great and plenty of it.
SO...... would i watch this movie again? likely not. Even with the above average acting of samaire armstrong and hodder, the movie was jsut that:average and that's not good enough for me. So out of a ten i would give this a ..... 6/10 overall
8/10music
4/10money's worth
most of these actors you likely won't hear of again except samaire Armstrong. She has appeared on the oc etc. So, she's really the only main actress/actor that will(it seems) go on to do great things, just by seeing this. Just pick some better rolesnextime(which she did-look above on acting part of review).
That's all folks.
Where is the Wolf? Just Horrendous!
2006-01-01 - With the New Year just more than six hours away, I
must tell you that no matter a full moon, half moon,
quarter moon, or no moon at all, please avoid the
flick "Darkwolf" for many moons to come. What a joke.
What a silly, stupid, insult to one's intelligence.
The script could have been written by my dog
Stan...and even then, I give him the benefit of the
doubt to come up with something much more canine.
Let's put it this way. Have you ever seen a film that
contained people that irritated you so much, you
simply didn't give a ^&^%* if they got blown away? I
was hoping the entire cast got mulched by Mr. Wolf
less that 30 minutes into this loser. Go "Darkwolf".
Take a few chucks out of this cast, its director,
producer, writer and editors as quickly as
possible...and don't wait until the next full moon.
"Darkwolf" is an insult to motion pictures. More so,
it is an insult to such credible werewolf classics as
"The Wolf Man", "Wolfen" and "The Howling", not to
mention the tongue-in-cheek horror classic "An
American Werewolf in London".
Need I say more? "Darkwolf" has no bite. It's claws
and fangs have been chiselled to oblivion. The box
claims this flick to be "Half Man. Half Wolf. Pure
Evil." In reality it is Half/Whole Stupid. Half/Whole
Worthless. ...and...Pure ^%&*!
Get my drift? At midnight...as we turn another page
and the new year unfolds...I promise you you will
enjoy reruns of every episode of "Mary Hartman, Mary
Hartman", much more than "Darkwolf".
I'm off to watch yet another New Year's flick before
dawn. I need to make amends to Lon Chaney, Jr. before
midnight.
Bottom line, it was a film you didn't really care
"where" the "wolf" came from, or where the werewolf
was going. Pitiful...embarrassing..."I've seen the
bad moon rising" but this one makes me wish it would
set!
