I have a rule against ranking/reviewing movies I haven't seen all the way through, otherwise I'd top the list with Rob Zombie's El Superbeasto, a movie so terrible I couldn't make it 20 minutes through.
2006
D: Len Wiseman
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A slight improvement over the original, but that’s not saying much.
2009
D: Patrick Tatopoulos
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A dull and unnecessary prequel that
raises more questions than it answers.
7. Wolfen
1981
D: Michael Wadleigh
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Well-directed, but it was one of the most anticlimactic
movies I have ever seen. We thought we
were going to see werewolves, but instead we got wolves who were social justice
warriors.
6. Underworld
2003
D: Len Wiseman
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A waste of a good premise and
visuals. The characters, with the
possible exception of Lucian, were not compelling and the design for the “werewolves”
was terrible.
2012
D: Mans Marlind, Bjorn Stein
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Our favorite genocidal vampiress is
back in a movie that almost makes the first Underworld
look good.
4. Cursed
2005
D: Wes Craven
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A rather appropriately named movie. A waste of the Craven/Williamson team as well
as a great cast. Rick Baker’s effects
were sadly downplayed in favor of some bad CGI. There are some uncut moments, but it would
take more than some ultraviolence to solve this movie’s problems, which seemed
to mostly stem from executive meddling. The only good part of it is the werewolf-giving-the-middle-finger-while-lightning-strikes gif that's actually less funny in the movie's context.
3. Van Helsing
2004
D: Stephen Sommers
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Hackish, boring action movie, but it does at least boast
some good werewolf design.
2016
D: Anna Foerster
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Not as much technically wrong with it as the previous movies, but lacks almost every interesting aspect of them. It doesn't even have a memorable line, which even the others seemed to have some of those.
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Not as much technically wrong with it as the previous movies, but lacks almost every interesting aspect of them. It doesn't even have a memorable line, which even the others seemed to have some of those.
1. Dark Shadows
2012
D: Tim Burton
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A hackishly unserious adaptation from the former
great. It also boasts the literal worst werewolf
design I’ve ever seen: a human with digitigrade legs.
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