A
group of troublemaking teens decides to
go an see a carnival freakshow in the
middle of the woods only to discover a
girl with full body hair named Tara
(Victoria Sanchez) is doing an act as a
werewolf.
She is taunted and tormented by these
teens as well as some of the local
villagers. She feels that the freakshow
carnival run by a stern man named Harley
Dune (Tim Curry) is the only sdafe place
to be.
Yet, she runs into an eccentric teen
named Ryan Klein (Dov Tiefenbach) and
tries to hep her cure by losing her body
hair as his mom does experiements on
animals by using chemicals to take off
their hair.
However, Tara keeps having nightmares and
hallucinations on becoming a werewolf and
killing people and suddenly her powers
unleash after a freak accident caused by
two of the troublemaking teens named Beau
(Shawn Ashmore) and his girlfriend
Krystal (Shelby Fenner) occured and they
may have to pay for their nasty tricks on
her.
At first the film seems
mighty boering but it makes alot of sense
when the story chugs along.
It's a nice look at someone who doesn't
belong in the real world.
While watching it, it doesn't seem like
it's going to be a horror film, just a
drama fantasy with horror elements but
just wait and see, you'er in for a big
surprise.
This film is very clever, original and
creative too.
The acting is terrific and
we have a marvellous known cast for the
most part of it too.
Lead actress Victoria
Sanchez is wonderful as a teenage
girl at the freakshow with lycanthrope as
she brings great energy to her role.
Don Tiefenbach played a perfect
eccentric teenage outsider and knew how
to play someone caring too.
Shawn Ashmore really knew his
stuff as a nasty bully troublemaking kid
that you don't want around.
Surprise surprise there's character
celebrity actor Tim Curry who
almost lived to play a freakshow carnival
host and almost met up to his role as the
transvestite in Rocky Horror
Picture Show. He knew how to be
stern and intimidating too.
But the best cast member out of them all
is supporting actress Darlene Cates which
is nice to see her get another acting gig
due to her heavy weight as we all
remember her in the blackbuster motion
picture What's Eating Gilbert
Grape as Momma Grape. She is
very loving and protective in her role as
well as tough too which she brings all of
that superbly to her chracter.
Victoria
Sanchez wakes up and undoes her
blosue showing her breasts and does this
again during another scene too.
During the ending she crawls naked to a
lake.
A guy takes off his clothes and is fully
naked and a tiny pecker is revealed which
is a drawing card that he's a misfit
himself.
A dog's neck is bitten off
during a hallucination sequence.
A boys neck is bitten off
A girls tongue is bitten off
Thom Fitzgerald knew
his craft by working on this film
bringing the story to life
He shows great camera shots on the forest
and tall tree's making it look werewolf
like environment.
He coaches supporting actress Grace
Jones very well when she performs a
song on stage as one side of her is a
woman and the other is a male with devil
horns and it makes you wonder if she is a
he or not. He does the same with Curry
with a song proving he can still
sing since his days in Rocky
Horror and Annie.
There's many nice and loving moments
involving Victoria Sanchez and Darlene
Cates together which looks
believeably heartwarming.
We have a perfect dark forest scene with
one of the lead actors Shawn
Ashmore showing perfect violent
aggressions towards Don Tiefenbach
after doing a prank to him in the forest
as they seem like typical teenage
troublemakers.
There's another perfect timing with Cates
and Tiefenbach in her trailer
when she grabs him by the shirt and about
to be physical with him
There's perfect camera shots on the
extra's playing villagers whenever Sanchez's
character strolls in the village and
having good shocked glances too.
We also have great hallucinations and
nightmare sequences with Sanchez's showing
her attacking people and animals too.
Not only that Fitzgerald really
coached Sanchez's aggressions and terror
well when she slowly becomes a raging
werewolf.
He also showed nice romantic sequences
inviolving Sanchez with Don
Tiefenbach making them have perfect
chemistry working together.
Shelby Fenner shows a perfect
reaction after something terrifying
happens to her but I won't say what as
that's a spoiler but it involves Sanchez.
Christophe
Beck has some nice smooth music for
this film as it really goes with the flow
in this film.
Athena:
[After grabbing Ryan by his shirt] If you
hurt her I'll flatten you like a pancake!
Beau:
Didn't you see the sign? It said "No
Pets Allowed."
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