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Virginia (Felicia Day) takes her fiancé Nathan (Kavan Smith) to meet
her family - granny (Rosemary Dunsmore), brothers Jake (David Reale) and
Marcus (Greg Bryk) - who live in a house deep in the woods. Nathan finds
the whole bunch - including Virginia when she's with them - a bit odd,
especially when they find a dead body that spontaneously incinerates and
treat it like nothing special. It's not before Nathan meets Gabriel
(Stephen McHattie) though, a man who turns into a wolf before his very
eyes and attacks him, that he starts to understand the truth: Virginia and
her family are werewolf hunters, and she is the last female descendant of
Little Red Riding Hood. Weirdly enough, the werewolf attack has left
Nathan unharmed, and from here on he becomes part of the family's
werewolf-hunting operations - which seem to be overdue because it seems,
Gabriel, an especially evil werewolf, has taken over the wolfpack, and he
is presently teaching the werewolves how to change at will so they are not
dependant on the full moon anymore. Eventually, it turns out that Nathan
has been bitten by Gabriel and turned after all, and the only reason he is
not shot on the spot is because Virginia is deeply in love with him.
Instead he is locked in and drugged to sleep through the full moon while
Viriginia and brothers go on a werewolf hunt - with disastrous results,
Jake and Marcus are killed and she is captured by Gabriel, who plans to
torture her, the last descendant of Red, to death himself. The next day,
and back in human form, Nathan manages to save her though, then they turn
her family home into a fortress to fight the werewolves who are sure to
try to take the mansion the next night. And while Virginia fights the
werewolves trying to invade, Nathan is sent back behind bars and is
guarded by granny. Somehow, Virginia manages to fight off and kill all the
werewolves, even Gabriel, but by that time, Nathan has left his cage and
killed granny - which is bad, because once a werewolf has killed a human,
it's impossible to turn him back. In the end, Nathan the werewolf even
attacks Virginia, and only the rising sun saves her. However, he has
already bitten her ... So the last two survivors of the ordeal turn out
to be werewolves. Nathan wants the two of them to start anew and find a
cure, but Virginia knows the only cure for her condition is to kill the
werewolf who has bitten her, thus she stabs him to death and breaks her
own heart at the same time ... This film might not add much to
the werewolf-myth as such, is certainly not the most original, inventive
or trailblazing film ever, not by a longshot, and it features some badly
done CGI-wolfes - but I have to admit I rather liked it: It's very
well-paced, profits from stringent storytelling, is devoid of unnecessary
subplots, features a small but decent ensemble cast, and comes across as
an enjoyably old-fashioned action-horror flick with a cool surprise
ending. As I said, not the best film, not even the best werewolf flick
you have ever seen, but entertaining nevertheless.
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