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Imagine you and a bunch of friends decided to make a horror movie. That's "Lycanimator."
Two couples meet a fifth friend at a creepy house in the woods for some drinking after being warned away by a crazy veteran/former caretaker from the property. After one guy is forced to drink some green fluid they found, he turns into a werewolf-like monster and attacks the others.
To say this was a cheap production would be an understatement. The running time on the DVD I owned was 41 minutes, but I keep seeing an hour online- unless they were counting the short film "Fleshflower" and the brief behind-the-scenes footage. The opening crawl has a misspelled word. A beginning dialogue scene can't get the voices to sync to the actors' mouths. Toward the end of the film, you can hear the director say cut- whether all of these mistakes are intentional is beyond me. Feinics and Hornick are actually very good in their roles, but this is such a mess. It's nice to see Feinics cast as a lead- she has a great, real quality onscreen, but she's wasted in her role. I understand the appeal of the micro-budget horror film, and it's great to hear stories about how wonderful it was to work on a fun set, but the horror and suspense were forgotten. The film maker commented on my review of this film on another blog in mid-2020, saying what I saw was a rough cut prematurely released by a video company, so there's that. I did not seek out any new edit of this film.
Stats:
(2018) 60 min. (1/10)
-Directed by Sophie Godin
-Screenplay by Sophie Godin, Original idea by Sophie Godin, Dustin Hubbard
-Cast: Cayt Feinics, Joel D. Wynkoop, Briana Wyman, Kii Hornick, Sophie Godin, Dustin Hubbard, Toby Johansen, Matthew Scott Kimple, Karina Nieves, Jonathan E. Smith, Alberto Giovannelli, Jeff Strand, James Balsamo
(Not Rated)- Physical violence, mild gun violence, some gore, profanity, female nudity, some sexual content, adult situations, alcohol use
Media Viewed: DVD
