Wolf Man (#640)

It's amazing. We're only 15 days into the new year, and I already have a nomination for the worst movie of the year.  WOLF MAN is just plain awful, and I noticed that it only lasted three days in my theater.  I guess the smell emanating from the theater was enough to close it down.  First of all, it gives the impression of an old time silent film because there's practically no dialogue—only incredibly loud discordant sounds and semi-animal sounds. This is the story of a man who inherits his father's farm in Oregon when his father disappears and is declared dead. I never recall seeing a farmhouse surrounded by dense forest before.  His wife doesn't want to join him to see the place but goes anyway with their young daughter in tow.  They arrive in the middle of the night of course (the whole film looks like it was filmed in the middle of the night with no lighting) and are attacked by something. Later, Dad begins acting strangely, that is if you think eating his own arm is acting strangely. At least that's what I thought he was doing.  And things go downhill from there.  For whatever reason, 62% of critics and 57% of audiences gave this one a thumbs up.  My thumb points vigorously in the opposite direction.