YMMV / Werewolf (1996)

• Awesome Moments: When Wolf!Paul attacks some random guy on the street, he doesn't run off, freaking out like everyone else, he punches him in the face! And if you had to sit through this film without the MST3K track, you will take a liking to this random extra.
• Awesome Music: The atmospheric Native American chanting during the opening credits is wasted on this movie.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The extremely bizarre non sequitur line from Sam the Keeper ("Mr. Niles! I just found out Count Dracula was a faggot!") in his introductory scene. Seriously, what the hell was that about?
  • "Weird things a goin', weird things a comin', weird things a doin', around here!"
• Designated Hero: Paul Niles never performs any action even remotely heroic throughout the course of the film. Even when he finally kills the villain at the end (as a werewolf), it's treated no differently from when he killed innocent people (as a werewolf). Paul doesn't affect the plot, the plot affects Paul.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Sam the keeper.
  • The random citizen who can kick a werewolf's ass.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: The movie ends just after it's revealed that Natalie has become a werewolf as well. So now they're both vicious creatures of the night who will undoubtedly spend the rest of their lives killing innocent people and being forced to run from the consequences. She seems pretty happy about it, though. Hooray, I guess?
• Fight Scene Failure: None of the fights in the movie are particularly convincing, but special note goes to Yuri attacking Paul in the lab. Paul's kick at Yuri is too far away to connect, and when Yuri swings at Paul with the werewolf skull, he clearly misses.
• Harsher in Hindsight: When the guard is driving around (and going past the same gas station over and over again), Crow remarks on the high gas prices "Where is he, Port au Prince?". Said prices are around $1.95. Ten years later, people would kill to have gas prices that low again...
• Memetic Loser: The werewolves in this movie are notorious for being impossibly weak. Tommy is gunned down within seconds of his first transformation, the security guard changes shape while driving and dies in a car crash, and Paul nearly gets the shit kicked out of him by a random bystander.
• Memetic Mutation: "I just found out Count Dracula was a fag!"
• Narm: The entire movie essentially feeds a high-pressure main of unintentional comedy, but if we had to pick one example, it'd be when Natalie's actress takes a rare stab at emoting, and this is the line she delivers:
  "So it's come to thess? You and Noel is [sic] in it for fame and fortune?! But over my dead-body!"
  • Yuri trying to fend off Werewolf!Paul's attack by crossing his arms like Wonder Woman.
• Nightmare Retardant:
  • It's a poor werewolf that can get its ass kicked by some random guy on the street.
  • Paul seems really shaken up by his supposed nightmares... which he only describes as "running through the streets, doing things."
  • Werewolf!Paul wasting time doing Unsportsman Like Gloating instead of killing his victims.
• One-Scene Wonder: The random guy on the street who manages to fight Werewolf Paul and almost win.
• Special Effects Failure: The werewolf skeleton is inexplicably only about 4 feet tall (there's no suggestion it came from a werewolf child or the like.)
• So Bad, It's Good: The best way to describe the film's overall presentation (acting, writing, directing, cinematography, continuity, and special effects) would be not just incompetent, but masterfully so.
• Stock Footage Failure: The security guard's death, crashing into a pile of oil barrels, was stock footage which Tony Zarindast purchased from a film archive. His car noticeably changes from a Ford Taurus (in the original scenes) to a Plymouth Acclaim (the stock footage) several times during the scene.

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