After many years abroad, Laurence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro), returns home after receiving a letter from his brother Ben fiancée, Gwen (Emily Blunt), informing him that his brother went missing. The day he arrives at Blackmoor Manor, his father, Sir John (Anthony Hopkins), lets him know that his younger brother dead body was found. Ben seemed to have been mangled by a powerful beast. Determined to uncover this mystery, he goes out at night to talk with the local gypsies. But the beast is near and he gets bitten…

Films of horror were always something that I enjoyed to watch, especially at night with all the lights off and preferably all by myself. It’s one of my biggest pleasures and once in a while I do a sort of a horror marathon after a long week of work. When I saw the first images of The Wolfman, I was ecstatic! Horror and paranormal,  my favorite combination. So there I went to my local theater wishing for scary scenes and some good special effects.

My first impression after some minutes of watching The Wolfman was good. The Gothic settings are very well done and I could actually feel that gloomy and dark atmosphere that clung to the manor since the beginning. You could feel something was not right and this reminded me those black and white classic horror movies just like the original Wolfman. It was a good sign!

Half an hour later, I was wishing for my money back (the last time this happened to me was when I went to see Evita, I know bad choice!) The problem with the movie? Mostly the acting. I don’t know what happened but it was as if nobody in that movie actually cared about what they were doing. And the cast was one of the most interesting things in this production. When we have such incredibly gifted actors, who normally offer us some amazing performances, we expect the best. It seems I got it wrong.

Anthony Hopkins, an acting god, was actually a poor, malefic and quite predictable version of Sir John. Until now, I couldn’t get what he was trying to do… Then Benicio Del Toro also a tremendous actor, gave us a very inconstant performance. Since he was the main character of this movie, I’m not sure if I can forgive him for such disappointment. And I don’t think I’m going to spare much comments about Emily Blunt, who I simply adore, but who actually manage to make her character completely irrelevant. After all this debacle, we finally see some hope in Hugo Weaving as Francis Aberline, the Scotland Yard inspector, the only one who brought something interesting to this movie. The man is so charismatic they should have gave him the lead!

The special effects were good and, for once, the all man-werewolf transformation looked painful and real. In the other hand the action scenes between Hopkins and Del Toro looked a bit ridiculous with all that jumping up and down.

Finally, I have to tell those who were expecting, like me, some scary moments that not once this movie made me jump, not once I got the jibbies. If not for the blood and gore, they could have told the story of the lovely and peaceful Blackmoor wolfman and his beautiful lady Gwen.

In the end, it’s still good entertainment but far, very far from what I expected from a horror movie.

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William Burke and William Hare, also known as the West Port murderers, are two famous serial killers who provided the Edinburgh medical school with the dead bodies of their victims. Based in a true story set in 1827 in Edinburgh, Burke and Hare does not seem to be a story for the faint-hearted. With a brilliant cast lead by Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fischer, Tim Curry and Christopher Lee, we do hope this movie will give us a few chills and healthy scares.

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320239/

Images courtesy of premiere.fr

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Some time ago we talked about Benicio del Toro and Emily Blunt’s new movie, The Wolfman. The release day is coming up fast and we wanted to share some of the posters. We are eager to see if this story is as scary at it seems!

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After spending years away from home, Lawrence Talbot returns to his estranged family to try to track his missing brother. Instead he finds himself caught in a dangerous and bloodthirsty world…
The Wolfman is a movie with an impressive cast (Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Hunt, Hugo Weaving,…) and a catchy, even if creepy, atmosphere. Something that we are incapable of resist, especially with Hopkins and Weaving in the game.

We leave you with some images and the trailer!

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Official site: http://www.thewolfmanmovie.com/
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780653/