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A creature of ancient legend manifests, bound to protect the ecological balance of the land as well as kill anyone that threatens it. This elusive guardian is both feared and celebrated by the locals. However, a deadly curse soon impacts them all, uniting them with the goal of recapturing the monster wolf's spirit or facing their ultimate doom.

The film was part of Syfy's 31 Days of Halloween 2010 and premiered on Syfy October 9, 2010.

Yeah, you know how it is for oil workers. You try to find a new place to drill, set off an explosion and unleash a wolf-like creature that kills all of your co-workers. Time to fill out an incident report!

Director Todor Chapkanov has worked second unit on big films like The Hitman's Bodyguard and London Has Fallen. This was written by Charles Bolon, who was also behind Swamp Shark.

Robert Picardo, who played Eddie Quist in The Howling, is now ironically facing off with a werewolf in this one. This movie is in no way as good as that film, but I'm sure you already guessed that.

Monsterwolf is set in the small Louisiana town of Crowley where the Holter Oil Company are illegally drilling for oil, at dig site three the men come across a strange Native American relic & get orders from the boss Stark (Robert Picardo) to blow it up. After detonating a load of C4 explosive the relic remains intact & the evil spirit of an ancient Indian tribe leader is summoned & manifests itself as a Monsterwolf! With Monsterwolf having killed all the men on site Stark panics that the deal for the oil rights might be lost so hires junior lawyer Maria Bennet (Leonor Varela) to handle the legal side of things & try to persuade the town that Holter Oil will benefit them financially, having grew up in Crowley Maria feels she can influence the town. However the Monsterwolf continues to kill all those associated with Holter Oil as it tries to protect the town & th surrounding land...

Directed by Todor Chapkanov this is yet another Sci-Fi Channel original Creature Feature that it seems to have an endless production line of, Monsterwolf maybe isn't quite as bad as some of the things but please don't take that as any sort of recommendation from me as it's still pretty rank. Monsterwold originally premiered on SyFy (I hate that re-branding) at the start of October & at the time of writing this IMDb user comment there are only two other user comments one of which gives Monsterwolf 9 stars out of 10 & the other gives it 10 stars out of 10, I am not sure if we watched the same film but in what universe can someone rate Monsterwolf an absolutely perfect 10 out of 10? Certainly not in the one I live in, that's for sure. The script is stupid generic stuff that makes no sense at all & exists purely to have some sort of creature running around to kill a few of the cast off, the whole back-story with Maria being from the town & the twist at the end in which she suddenly realises she was adopted & is in fact the only person alive who can kill the Monsterwolf is just pure idiocy & one of the most inane twists I can remember sitting through in a long time. If that wasn't bad enough Maria then places a special bone necklace inside the barrel of a shotgun & when she pulls the trigger it shoots out like a bullet. I hate to break it to the filmmakers but that's not how guns work, I really don't need to explain just how stupid & idiotic that concept is. Then again Monsterwolf is just an idiotic film, the idea that a major oil company would hire a junior lawyer just because she was raised in the town they were drilling in, the part towards the end when it turns into a cartoon to visualise a flashback, the idea that a bunch of guy's would use C4 to blow something up that would have taken a few minutes to dig up & throw away (it also have a naked flame burning in midair which might have indicated pockets of natural flammable gas), when Maria thinks her house is being broken into she doesn't call her father who happens to be the local Sheriff she instead calls her boyfriend, a scene where a hunter when confronted with the Monsterwolf drops his rifle & just runs away & a couple of scenes of Stark ordering a hit on someone yet doing over an open phone & not even telling the hit-man who the target is. I could go on but I think you get the idea, Monsterwolf is full of dumb people, dumb ideas, bad clichés, bad dialogue & cardboard character's. I am also rather upset for the oil workers, the evil Monsterwolf takes revenge on them but hey, they were just trying to earn a living right? Put food on the table & pay the bills. What about that old guy? He just wanted a holiday, give him a break. Why didn't the Monsterwolf kill Yale after he sold out to Stark? Why not kill Maria for defending Stark? As well as a dumb plot there's plenty of silly Native American legend nonsense that I find so tiresome, my eyes just tend to glaze over whenever some tribal Chief starts talking about ancient spirits & legends in films these days.

There's a couple of attempts at style, like the police station when maria & Yale are told to stay there & then everything around them speeds up while they just remain motionless or when the film turns into a cartoon at the end with an animated flashback which looks really out of place although on it's own quite cool & stylish. There's a bit of gore, there's some blood splatter, a couple of impalement's, a few dead bodies are seen & someone is ripped in half. The whole thing has TV production values & looks alright but the special effects are less than impressive. The Monsterwolf itself looks just like a large wolf & as expected the CGI is just poor & it even randomly turns into a bolt of electricity at the end to blow up a helicopter which also looks terrible.

Apparently filmed in Lafayette in Louisiana this looks fairly unremarkable, the production values are average at best. The acting isn't that good, leading lady Leonor Varela is alright actually but the moronic script doesn't do her any favours.

Monsterwolf is typical stupid Sci-Fi Channel Creature Feature rubbish with terrible effects, clichéd character's & a predictable plot. I can't say I would recommend it, give this one a miss unless your desperate.

Getting the flick on Blu-Ray as a gift on Halloween, I was disappointed to find that the disc did not work. Curious about viewing it,I was happy to stumble on the movie as part of a triple DVD Sy-Fy Channel film set this year,which led to me at last facing the Monsterwolf.

View on the film:

Put together on a low TV movie budget, director Todor Chapkanov & cinematographer Lorenzo Senatore wisely keep the monster from being fully seen in daylight, instead going for brief glimpses at the howling terror of the wolf. Whilst a bit on the heavy-handed side, the screenplay by Charles Bolon displays some ambition in linking the horror of the Deep South town going on a monster hunt, with the ecological horror of Native American land being destroyed by big business. Snarling almost as much as the monster, Robert Picardo gives an enjoyable boo-hiss performance as the baddie who takes on the Monsterwolf.

The accents are appalling... Being from the area that the movie was filmed at, I'm insulted that the actors refused to learn a Cajun accent instead of sounding like a redneck hillbilly from northern Louisiana. You should really have you writers and production staff research and visit mot just the area but also the people and culture of that area to increase the illusion of reality.

The bar scene at dock of the bay, really sierra Nevada IPA, really. Any abita beer would have been more appropriate, Bud light at the least.

Other then that I enjoyed the story and plot very much.

Oh, by the way, Louisiana is home to coyotes.

Other then that I have really nothing else to write about. I hope everyone else enjoyed the picture as much as I did even with my discrepancies.

Ya'll have a great day.

...........is a good movie trying to escape. Really. However, this movie overcomes the decent acting, the ok directing by having an illogical, silly, error filled, poorly realized monster. It tries to show how small town people all look out for one another (which is a load. Small town people are insular and suspicious of outsiders), that all corporations are evil and look to only forward their own agenda (this they kind of got right), to have a social conscience by have a stereotypical 'wise old Indian' tell the story of how the ghost wolf (who isn't really that large). So other than the tepid pace of the story and the terrible effects, how bad is this movie? Here's an example. These 'best in the business' hit men are hired by the oil company head (Robert Picardo who played a werewolf in The Howling, now gets killed by a ghost wolf in this) to kill the wolf, and later the wise Indian. They succeed in their mission in killing the Indian, but THREE OTHER PEOPLE ESCAPE while they're being FIRED ON WITH AUTOMATIC WEAPONS! Also, when the wolf attacks the lawyer (who's switched sides, which is illegal) she OUTRUNS IT! Yes, it's that stupid. No wonder it aired on the Syfy-less channel.

This film gets a solid 9 for a MADE FOR TV movie. A quick rundown. The actors are very good. The movie theme is very good. The scenery and locations are very good. The filming is very good. The characters are very good. I probably should put an extra "very" in front of everyone of the previous descriptions as it is all that good.

The movie keeps you interested from start to finish. There were only two minor problems that I found. For those that expect top level graphics, they will not be found here as it often is with many lower budget movies. However, it distracts very little from the movie as it is the characters and story that are the main focus. Though the special effects are far from great they are masterly handled to the point that it is a very minor thing. Don't get me wrong. The quality is not all that bad, but it is not Blockbuster movie level which it does not need to be. A more significant minor problem is that whoever wrote the story seems to have the belief that the even an average mind will not pick up on the fact that all these out of the ordinary things are happening but no one in the film seems to pick up on that fact that they are out of the ordinary.

Of course I must say that I am very oriented to logic. While I can accept wild non fact based theories as being possible, once one steps into the realm of fairly unbelievable, my mind reacts negatively. In other words I can believe that intelligent life can exist elsewhere in the universe. However, I cannot believe any statement that says 90 percent of the people in the United States do not believe that Coke and Pepsi are soft drinks. The first statement about alien life seems very possible to me, the second does not. Of course this is just one man's opinion, so do watch this movie as it is very entertaining for SCI-FI fans.

The Holter Oil Company wants to drill for oil in Acadia Parish, Louisiana and make everyone rich, They are getting resistance from the local Native Americans. They discover a ceremonious wrapped spare tire with a CG flame and attempt to C4 it. The tire remained and the Cachina Hua'a spirit was invoked as the Werewolf of Louisiana targets Holter Oil Company employees. Home town girl and NY lawyer Maria Bennett (Leonor Varela) returns home to aid the evil oil company take the land from the citizens. Her old boyfriend Yale (Jason London) is also there so we can also make this a love story with premarital sex.

This is a made for TV production that included good characters and decent dialogue. Ricky Wayne could pass for the illegitimate child of Nicklaus Cage.

Guide: No swearing. clothed sex scene. No nudity.