History Film / Werewolf

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[[caption-width-right:350:The DVD cover, which looks more impressive than [[CoversAlwaysLie the actual movie]].]]

-->-- '''Tom Servo''' [[PungeonMaster responds to the title]]

-->'''[[MST3K Mike]]:''' Elgin is my ''black'' friend.

''Werewolf'', also known as ''Arizona Werewolf'', is a 1996 direct-to-video horror film that was lampooned in [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E04Werewolf this]] 1998 episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.

The movie remained mostly obscure until it became the feature of a 1998 episode of movie-mocking television comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000's ninth season. ''Werewolf'' was noteworthy for having been filmed only two years previous to the MST3K episode mocking it, as well as one of the few films featured that were actually created during the run of the show. Mike Nelson and his robot friends made considerable light of the clumsy direction of the film, the relatively cheap, inconsistent nature of the werewolf costumes, Adrianna Miles' bad English and her constant pronunciation of the word werewolf as wuhr-welf, about the full moon occurring every single night in the movie, the fact that Yuri has a different hairstyle in almost every scene, the fact that the security guard drove past the same location several times while a werewolf, and the fact that almost all the cast -- despite playing Americans -- spoke with various thick accents, saying such phrases as "you and Noel is in it for fame and fortune? But '''o'''ver my dead '''bo'''dy!" Because of the numerous ripe opportunities for riffing, Kevin Murphy, who played Tom Servo, referred to the film as "a gift from God". Mike and the Bots also sing various songs to the film's closing credit music, in the style of Music/FleetwoodMac's "Tusk".

Not to be confused with the [[{{TabletopGame/Werewolf}} card game]] of the same name.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Wherever this is, it's certainly not Flagstaff, Arizona.

* CrazySurvivalist / CrustyCaretaker: Sam the Keeper, of "I just heard Count Dracula was a faggot!" fame. He's practically a one-man WackyWaysideTribe, really; he's unimpeachably bizarre, there's no reason for him to be in the movie and he has no effect on the plot, and yet [[NarmCharm the movie would be]] ''[[NarmCharm nothing]]'' [[NarmCharm without him]].

* EstablishingShot: An overly-long one of a building prompts Tom Servo to say "Man, they're establishing the hell out of this building here!" on {{MST3K}}.

** They also manage to make the Navajo word ''yataali'' sound like ''hot toddy.''

* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened to the Landlady?]]: So she gets chucked down the stairs by her lycanthropic tenant, and just...gets up and walks away. It's understandable that she'd want to get out of town, sure, but she apparently doesn't call the police, or tell Sam the Keeper or confront Paul about what happened or-or ''anything''.
** Also two characters including Joe Estevez's disappear right after stopping the first werewolf and aren't ever referred to again.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Most of the characters, but especially Natalie[[note]]Adriana Niles, nee Biedrzyńska, is Polish[[/note]].

Bizarrely similar to ''TrackOfTheMoonBeast'' and ''ItLivesByNight'', both of which were featured in [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'s tenth and final season. Hell, ''Moon Beast'' is even about a guy named Paul in the southwestern United States being turned into a monster in a manner that ties into Native American folklore while his ditzy ladyfriend does pretty much nothing relevant to the plot.

See the rundown of the ''[[MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' episode [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E04Werewolf here]]

[[caption-width-right:350:The DVD cover, which looks more impressive than [[CoversALwaysLie the actual movie]].]]

[[caption-width-right:350:The DVD cover, whic looks better than [[CoversALwaysLie the actual movie]].]]

[[TheStinger "Dis is ubsolutely fesscinating."]]

* NoFourthWall: Sam likes to remind the audience that he's one of the good guys.
** There are a couple moments where Yuri looks at the camera, almost expecting a reaction.
*** [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 "Audience, what's YOUR diagnosis?"]]

* ImprobableHairstyle: Yuri's hair manages to change color and style at least six times over the course of the movie. "A yellow mohawk? How about orange Jheri curls?"
** To be fair, his hair remains the same. It's the Godawful inconsistent lighting that makes it look different in each shot. That, and evidently production ran ''really'' long on this one, with the actors being called back to do some scenes a year or so after the others were completed.

The movie remained mostly obscure until it became the feature of a 1998 episode of movie-mocking television comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000's ninth season. ''Werewolf'' was noteworthy for having been filmed only two years previous to the MST3K episode mocking it, as well as one of the few films featured that were actually created during the run of the show. Mike Nelson and his robot friends made considerable light of the clumsy direction of the film, the relatively cheap, inconsistent nature of the werewolf costumes, Adrianna Miles' bad English and her constant pronunciation of the word werewolf as wuhr-welf, about the full moon occurring every single night in the movie, the fact that Yuri has a different hairstyle in almost every scene, the fact that the security guard drove past the same location several times while a werewolf, and the fact that almost all the cast -- despite playing Americans -- spoke with various thick accents, saying such phrases as "you and Noel is in it for fame and fortune? But '''o'''ver my dead '''bo'''dy!" Because of the numerous ripe opportunities for riffing, Kevin Murphy, who played Tom Servo, referred to the film as "a gift from God". Mike and the Bots also sing various songs to the film's closing credit music, in the style of FleetwoodMac's "Tusk".

* FakeAmerican: Nearly every cast member.
** Special mention goes to Natalie, whose first language is clearly not English
--> "You and Noel is in it for fame and fortune. But over my dead body!"

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Film/{{Soultaker}} Joe Estevez]].
** [[Film/{{Halloween 2007}} Richard Lynch]]

* MoneyDearBoy: Rather harshly averted with Jorge "George" Rivero who ''never got paid'' for this film and never worked on an American non-union production again.

* TroubledProduction: According to an article written by one of the actors, the film had to shot on specific dates with long intervals in between due to being severely under funded, which explains why the three diggers vanish after the first act, and why Yuri's hair style keeps changing throughout the film.

** DirtyCoward: He's also remarkly little girl-ish in the face of danger.

Bizarrely similar to ''TrackOfTheMoonBeast'' and ''ItLivesByNight'', both of which were featured in MST3K's tenth and final season. Hell, ''Moon Beast'' is even about a guy named Paul in the southwestern United States being turned into a monster in a manner that ties into Native American folklore while his ditzy ladyfriend does pretty much nothing relevant to the plot.

See the rundown of the ''MST3K'' episode [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E04Werewolf here]]

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Most of the characters, but especially Natalie[[note]]Adriana Niles, nee Biedrzyńska, is Polish.[[/note]]

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Most of the characters, but especially Natalie.

*** Given that, it'd be yet another example of PlotInducedStupidity.

** [[DeathBySex Death By (Almost) Sex]]: A couple is well on their way, hesitating briefly because the guy doesn't have a condom, when Wolf!Paul shows up, frightening the girl into running away. She gets killed, her boyfriend [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse vanishes for the rest of the movie]].

* {{Badbutt}}: For deadly werewolves, neither Paul nor Tommy are shown as much of a threat. Tommy is gunned down easily not even thirty minutes in and Paul only kills two people over the course of the movie (one of whom he was only able to kill because she tripped and fell while running away). At one point a random dude on the street manages to fight Werewolf Paul with his bare hands and almost ''wins''.

--> '''Natalie:''' ''This doesn't look like and conventional animal '''I'M''' familiar with!''

See the rundown of the ''MST3K'' episode [[MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E04Werewolf here]]

See the rundown of the ''mST3K'' episode [[MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E04Werewolf here]]

See the rundown of the ''NST3K'' episode [[MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E04Werewolf here]]