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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.
