Female Werewolf (2015) User Reviews

nothing to see and boring

[trashgang · 2/10 · 14 November 2016]

Just came across this flick by seeing the advertisement poster which looked old school exploitation. Perfect example how people can be tricked by posters.

Clocking in just over an hour even then it's way too long. We follow a girl who thinks she's going to become a werewolf and falls for her female colleague. So far for the story.

The flick itself is extremely slow. It should have horror elements as it is being sold as a horror but it hasn't any. On part of the lesbian thing going on there are parts were in slo-mo you see both girls having oral sex but with their clothes on.

There aren't any real effects, just the teeth which reminded me more of a vampire in stead of a werewolf. It tries to be mysterious and erotic but fails completely. For example why go to a fridge at your own place if you know it's empty...it's towards the end that the transformation takes place into a werewolf but cheaply done and too much slo-mo

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 0/5 Story 0,5/5 Comedy 0/5

nothing to see here...please carry on...nothing to see here

[casablancavic · 1/10 · 10 November 2016]

there are low budget films which are good. there are low budget films which are bad. there are low budget films which are bad and funny and then... there are low budget films which just suck...and this is the one which just sucks... it's not bad enough to be funny, it's not bad enough to be artistic or deep...it's just bad

there's no story...and what meager little plot there is - is so drawn out with the most pointless direction, horrid casting, lack of depth, poor visuals, bad editing, brutal delivery, terrible soundtrack, deplorable art and props, bland and lifeless locations, painful camera work and atrocious dialogue...even what little there is...

there is nothing to see here and think that it holds the slightest chance of entertainment content is sadly holding on to lost hope

this is not the worst movie I have ever seen, but it's coming very close...so the writer/director/actors and everybody involved can feel proud that they have not totally hit rock bottom

listen people...if you're going to waste your time and effort into making a film...at least make it mediocre enough to be called "art" or "nuveau" - or whatever the new term for making schlock into something remotely view-able and interesting...this has nothing...

even being sedated, stoned or drunk offers the viewer no hope of redemption...

there are plenty of movies which are bad and still more enjoyable than this to watch...and they suck...this just sucks on a totally lower level

regardless of budget in this case...no amount of money would have turned this sad sorry attempt of nothing into anything spectacular or even half-assed good

I wasted time awaiting to see what would come out of this...and the only thing that did, is my blatant negative review on something so mind-numbingly crap that any other viewers will have the opportunity to enjoy reading this review much more than sitting for 3 minutes watching your |film|

I was stuck in a bed - immobilized from an auto accident and was entertained more-so by watching weather reports of rain and the political debate

when that happens to your viewers, then it's time for you to do something more productive and start selling lemonade at your very own lemonade stand - and hope that you can do better than you did in making this film...good luck on that

save your time, effort and money - buy some plastic cups, make some ice, cut some lemons and start making lemon juice...because when life give you lemons...you don't make a movie like this - you just don't

you take those lemons, cut them in half - and squeeze the juice out and sell it with a cup of ice and some sugar...grab your 50 cents a cup and call it a day

then after you made your 50 cents, you don't invest that hard earned money into making something as dismal and depressing as this

Hello

[nogodnomasters · 1/10 · 28 October 2017]

A woman imagines (?) she is having sex with other women and then kills them with her fangs...like a vampire? This is an artsy film because it opens with classical music, uses a lot of colored filters, and we see plenty of film of a drain (sink and tub/shower). At twenty-eights minutes into the film we have the spoken words, "hello" to answer the phone, but other than that everyone is mute.

Guide: No swearing or nudity. One scene of pretend female oral sex. I would think this would have a very small niche.

Total lack of imagination

[fjorge-38-321079 · 1/10 · 28 February 2019]

Microscopic budget which I'm sure is due to lack of competence. We see a woman sitting at a table while play with her noodles and staring at a wall, walking down a hallway into bath with only a view of the tile floor and her feet, staring into a mirror, walking up a stairway, making copies, two women staring at each other in an office with no dialogue, and a panning shot of two doorways that lasts over a minute of screen time. Artsy? No just lack of imagination and skill.

Tries Something Different But It Just Doesn't Work

[Michael_Elliott · 9 October 2016]

Female Werewolf (2015)

* (out of 4)

A lesbian woman who appears to have a crush on her female co-worker also believes that she's turning into a werewolf.

It's pretty clear what writer-director Chris Alexander was trying to do with this picture and I respect him for trying something different. It seems this was supposed to be some sort of bizarre nightmare that you might have when you have a fever and have taken some strong medicine for it. It also seems that we've been given another slant on the werewolf theme but sadly it just doesn't work. I mean, this is supposed to be some sort of erotic dream but there's nothing entertaining about it and there's certainly nothing erotic.

The biggest problem is that the director did try to do something different but it just wasn't successful. I thought the film was extremely slow-moving even at just 65-minutes and there just wasn't enough of a story to keep you glued to what was going on. The majority of the film has one or both of the females walking around, cooking or doing a variety of other things but there's just no story here. You can argue that countless filmmakers did the same type of thing and that is true but they were able to draw you into the surreal nature and that just doesn't happen here.

Thanks, but can I have my hour back?

[longview-77631 · 1/10 · 20 June 2019]

I'm up for any kind of horror goodness, but this isn't a movie. No plot. No characters. No tension. One decent shot/scene that could have been kind of powerful, if they'd bothered to put anything around it. They should have cut this to five minutes and made it a good music video.

What

[chelseajmbelehar · 1/10 · 27 March 2020]

I've seen a movie that was shot in less than a month with 10/10; action, dialogue, plot and set design. This was not a good film. I'm usually a low budget film nut but this was like a college film student's last minute piece. Not good.

The plot is great!! The hazy mental thrill of a lust full woman, the lure in lycanthropy and the wholesome trusted co-worker love interest.

Too bad that's where it stops!

20 minutes in and the only dialogue we get is 'hello'. Seriously! The communication that is supposed to be felt or tingling on the audiences consciousness through the non-verbal actions are not there. There is no reason for me to care about this woman.

My friend was like "Hey at least there's girl on girl action." After watching the film lets just say I would have given her a Zanax if I had any. She's a lesbian who can get turned on with a woman crossing her legs so the erotic action she expected to see in this was just painful.

I went and re-watched it in double time and even at twice the normal speed it still didn't grab my attention. I was on a werewolf fix so I decided to give it another go for a less action paced film.

I see what the director was trying to do with the way he shot it but theory and real life are vastly different.

Creepy towards the end.

[stuart-james · 5/10 · 22 June 2021]

This is my first movie review on imdb. I don't particularly agree with the harshness of how this has been recieved and reviewed by people.

It's obviously the silent arty style film and maybe that's not your interest and its not brilliant or anything. But it has some pretty creepy scenes and the werewolf transformation scene was fairly convincing compared to some werewolf horrors I have seen.

The silence is a bit frustrating and is slow until about halfway through the movie. But I preferred it to Blood Dynasty.

Decided to give it a 5/10.

These types of movies would be perfect at a halloween party playing in the background.

I don't think they are mean't to be completely viewer engulfing.

Ok This one is pretty bad

[mangoamante · 2/10 · 4 June 2022]

Ok, I Have seen worse, but this one Is pretty bad...depending on your perspective when you're viewing. It's not fully silent, but it's mostly no dialogue. It is artsy, and super slow, maybe someone's school project. The whole thing is like dreams within a dream. Some of the camera shot choices I don't understand and they reuse many of them. I'm not sure I understood the point they were trying to make or the purpose of it. Are they saying her sexual hunger was so intense that she became a monster in order to devour these women? Unsure. But still, I've seen worse. I can't say I recommend this especially if you're looking for an actual movie rather than a school project.

Recording video is not always making a movie; don't waste your 65 minutes..

[feltonbiggles · 1/10 · 2 October 2021]

I love movies. I love good movies. I love bad movies. I even have a soft spot for mediocre movies, especially if the people making it did something to amuse, entertain, move, enlighten, scare, horrify, or otherwise reach me.

This movie came on automatically after I watched another movie. Given the title and the running time, I figured, why not? I like werewolf movies, from the great Lon Chaney, Jr., classics to the jaw-droppingly bad Wurrwilf (I mean "Werewolf"), a movie that taught us that everyone in Arizona is from another country (except the great Joe Estevez) and that a terrible script mispronounced badly enough can still be darned entertaining (shades of "Plan 9").

I haven't said anything about this "film" yet, which is appropriate because it may well be the least content-rich horror film ever made. You will long for the pacing of "Manos." Most of the footage records our lead walking slowly in her apartment, stirring a bowl of plain spaghetti, standing at the kitchen sink, taking showers with the curtain halfway open so that we can see an "homage" (or rip-off, you decide) of the drain shot from "Psycho," staring into an empty fridge, sitting at an office desk at a computer that shows a screen saver from one angle and what looks like static on an aerial TV from the other because no one involved knew how to film electronic screens, etc.

On a few occasions, the whole screen goes pink and the brightness is distorted as she lies on the floor in a fetal position, has what I gather are supposed to be passionate lesbian encounters or a engages in a bit of monster activity. Over and over, when anything happens (and often when it doesn't) we go into slow motion ... verrrrrrrrry slow, accompanied by lighting and camera effects that are close to unwatchable and make it impossible to see most of what is happening. I imagine that werewolf effects that could be watched were far beyond the budget and abilities available. The same seems to be true of the love scenes. Perhaps the actors were unwilling to perform sex scenes that could be seen. The slow-motion pressing of lips on each other's chins and shoulders that can barely be discerned makes it seem as though the actors really didn't want to touch each other. Perhaps they had something nasty for lunch before filming? What we can see of the werewolf activity is equally tepid and unconvincing.

The movie has almost no dialogue; sound is basically droning or honking noises punctuated occasionally with sound effects linked to events on screen, if you want to call them events. Sometimes a cello is heard, also droning.

The actors seem to be sleepwalking. The whole thing is hugely pretentious. The pace reminds me of Andy Warhol's 24 hour film of the Empire State building doing what it does best, standing still.

I feel bad being so harsh, but those involved are depriving viewers of time and perhaps of a chance to see something made by someone more competent and less full of ... himself.

One last thing: no one gives any sign of being a werewolf other than a shot or two of a mouth with what appear to be vampire fangs. So, what makes this a werewolf movie? Other than the lead standing in a forest for a while before we enjoy an overlit lingering closeup of the underside of her tongue and her hair being messy at the start and end, only the title.

Spoilers follow ...

[parry_na · 9/10 · 11 August 2016]

Described by Chris Alexander as a 'fetish film', 'Female Werewolf' certainly injects new levels of salaciousness into this story of a woman who suspects she maybe some kind of werewolf. By the film's close, we're still not sure whether she is crazy, whether her perceived lycanthropy is her way of pigeonholing her lesbianism or whether, as a typically murky (but impressive) transformation into a briefly glimpsed beast might attest, she is actually given to sprouting fangs and fur. Tangibly, in the 'real world', when she inspects her appearance in the bathroom of her sparsely furnished flat, the searched-for protruding teeth are nowhere to be found.

Whether it is in her mind or not, whether the murder of sexy office girl Cheryl Singleton and her subsequent wraith-like reappearances are real, or just part of Carrie Gemmell's secluded world doesn't actually seem terribly important. What we have here is a continuation of Chris Alexander's 'vision' for film-making – a Rollin-esque lack of regard for closure, or a hugely tangible story-line that scans like an hallucinogen or a dream. This may be his third full length feature, and we may have become more familiar with his doom-laden atmospherics, lack of dialogue and mesmerising attention to detail, but he still deliberately obfuscates for the sake of soaking his projects in a minimalist other-worldliness. Here – as always – we see signs of life: a roadway bustling, a snow-flecked POV shot from inside a car, Gemmell's sparse office job – but it is all held defiantly at arm's length. The true reality is in the enclosed isolationist's world of half seen monsters, cold eroticism and blood – lots of blood.

I really want there to be more films from Chris Alexander. 'Female Werewolf' may echo a few moments from his earlier 'Blood for Irina (2012)' (starring Shauna Henry, only glimpsed here) but he clearly has plenty more stories to tell.

Ignore the small minded reviews

[BandSAboutMovies · 6/10 · 11 June 2023]

Carrie Gemmell - who also appeared in director and writer Chris Alexander's Queen of Blood and Blood for Irina - is She. During the day, she's merely an office drone. Yet at night, She dreams of another woman (Cheryl Singleton) that she works with, as well as blood, sex and death. And when she wakes up, it isn't where she went to sleep. And her fangs are growing.

I thought maybe it was all in her head, but then after luring the woman back home, She opens her mouth and reenacts The Company of Wolves with a head emerging from her lips. Or is this her finally coming out? Ah, maybe I just need to remember the words of Georges Bataille. "Eroticism is assenting to life even in death."

If you haven't seen one of Alexander's films, they remain deceptively simple. There's a moment here where She is looking in the mirror when she wakes up and the white wall creates an effective split screen, juxtaposing her inspecting herself with absolute nothingness. It's all in camera, not something created in the edit, and so much of this is just art emerging for long takes or color taking control of the screen.

There's also another woman - Shauna Henry - who was Irina in Blood for Irina, Blood Dynasty and Queen of Blood. Is she playing the same role, lending her vampiric power to this tale of another creature that walks the night - "To walk the night / To feel no love / To know the touch of another kiss / Never more." - and wakes to wonder if these transformations and desires could be true?

Instead of Samhain, maybe I should have considered The Electric Prunes as a theme for this film. "Last night your shadow fell upon my lonely room / I touched your golden hair and tasted your perfume / Your eyes were filled with love the way they used to be / Your gentle hand reached out to comfort me / Then came the dawn / And you were gone / You were gone, gone, gone."

Female Werewolf is fascinating

[Whisper2Scream · 8/10 · 3 September 2022]

When it comes to making surreal quasi-femininist indie horror, I'm really fascinated by Alexander's work. This one kind of takes it. Lots of metaphor and lots of signature slow burn weirdness with a story of sexual repression and literally not a man in sight. It's easy to see why lots of people hate this stuff but I'm really into this world that he's made. Someone needs to do a proper analysis of all these films (still have t seen them all but working on it)because there's a theme running through them and sound and visual motifs that happen over and over. Female werewolf is really interesting filmmaking, doesn't matter the budget.