Candidate #8
LATE PHASES
After barging onto the ¡Qué horror! 2012 rundown with Penumbra, Argentinian director Adrián García Bogliano is back with his English language feature debut, Late Phases, working off a script written by Eric Stolze.
So,
yes, no need to be coy, it’s all over the trailer and the one sheet below: werewolf.
The
beauty of Late Phases is, it doesn’t quite
play like any werewolf film I’ve seen.
True,
it’s got the familiar horror movie trope of the protagonist who seems to be the
only one aware of the nature of the threat, but Damici’s crotchety (and blind)
McKinley isn’t your average misunderstood horror movie lead.
With
some excellent supporting performances by Ethan Embry and Tom Noonan, a
practically unrecognizable Lance Guest, brief appearances by Dana Ashbrook and
Larry Fessenden (also one of the film’s producers), and some noteworthy
creature effects courtesy of Robert Kurtzman’s Creature Corps, Late Phases is a solid entry in the annals of werewolf cinema, which, let’s face it,
needs a whole lot more of this kind of title to beef up its hairy, lupine ranks.
(Late Phases OS’ courtesy of impawards.com.)
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