Product Details

• Actors: Clint Howard, David Naughton, Richard Tyson, Christopher Shyer, Kimberly J. Brown
• Directors: Lance W. Dreesen
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Screen Media
• DVD Release Date: June 5, 2007
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000P0J056
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,730 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

During a deadly game of cat-&-mouse with a bloodthirsty werewolf derek crowley & his friends discover a horrifying secret about the monster they must kill to survive. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 06/05/2007 Starring: Richard Tyson Kimberly J Brown Run time: 96 minutes Rating: R

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars What if the werewolf started cracking bad one-liners like Freddy Kreuger?, September 24, 2007

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Big Bad Wolf (DVD)

Two hunters are out in the woods near their cabin when one of them is killed by a werewolf and the other one survives. Eight years later meek Derek Cowley (Trevor Duke) talks his pierced gal pal "Sam" Marche (Kimberly J. Brown), on a trip with some other college kids up to the cabin owned by Derek's family, even though it is strictly verbotten by his step-father Mitchell Toblat (Richard Tyson). It turns out Derek is the son of the man killed by the werewolf. At this point you should think that you know exactly where "Big Bad Wolf" is going. But there are a couple of surprises with this 2006 horror film. The first is that everything you think is going to happen is pretty much going to happen, but in the first act. The second is that when the werewolf shows up again, not only does it start killing the characters whose names we cannot remember, it makes a bunch of really lame jokes, including the old bit about huffing and puffing. This is one strange werewolf movie.

Once the second act begins, Sam gets to the crux of the matter, which is to figure out who the werewolf happens to be. Actually, that does not take that long, but having seen a werewolf rip apart their acquaintances, Derek and Sam are insisting on being able to prove their suspicion. So this movie ends up going the "Hamlet" route, where Derek and Sam "know" who the werewolf is, but they fall into the trap of wanting proof so that they really "know" what they already "know." Of course, this procrastination will end up killing people along the way, but that is what happens when the main part of the movie does not start until a half hour into the film. But then we know full well that Act III is going to be played out back at the cabin in the woods, so nothing that happens while the sun is up really matters here.

Unnecessary comic relief is provided by a television news crew that keeps trying to ambush Derek and Sam to find out what really happened out in the woods. Reporter Nick Baxter (Adam Hendershott) wants to know what the kids are hiding and why they survived when the others died. The police report must indicate that they jumped in a car and drove away, with the "animal" smashing a window and destroying a door. But for the sake of argument let us pretend this is a legitimate journalistic question: why does this jerk reporter think might be a better explanation? Does he think they are hiding the fact that the killer animal was a werewolf? Are they assuming the kids survived because they are virgins? Yes, I know, the whole idea here is to make the kids nervous and it has nothing to do with legitimate journalism, but this is what happens when a movie fails to engage your brain. Besides, the reporter needs to bring the desert menu for the werewolf's last meal.

To be fair, "Big Bad Wolf" does try to avoid being totally predictable. A talking werewolf is rather different, although the makeup makes the creature look more like an ugly ape than a werewolf. The werewolf in human form also has a few creepy moments as well during the second act. As for the gore it is your basic clawing and dismemberment with a decided emphasis on excess. The most shocking scene comes early on in a sick little in-joke regarding the only female virgin among the doomed students. At the end I was starting to think of bumping up the rating on this one a bit, mainly because I like the character of Sam, but then she finds her weapon of choice and a silly little speech about deciding to live or to die gets punctuated by an unsurprising violent punch line and I gave up such thoughts (a judgment confirmed by the rather obvious ending that is not an ending). The more you like over the top monster movies, the more you will like "Big Bad Wolf," because this film ends up being all about the one-liners.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Shame, Shaaaaaame!, June 25, 2007

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Leslie White (san diego) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Big Bad Wolf (DVD)

Too bad good acting was overshadowed by a gorilla suit. The werewolf character was insulting on so many levels. I'm amazed he wasn't clamoring to join the frat brothers rather than eat them. The plot was good, and that's the hardest part. Maybe it can be salvaged in a remake.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money..., February 9, 2008

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Jakabok Botch "imajicaman" (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Big Bad Wolf (DVD)

Save your money and if you want to watch this movie then wait for it to appear on television. The acting is dire, the plot is lame and the special effects weak. One of the worst horror and werewolf films I've ever seen, avoid like the plague.