When I was a teenager, there used to be a show on Channel 5 called 'Out There', which was a wild sort of late night clip show. It had a very 2000's feel to it, with a 'sexy' host called EVE who introduced all manner of clips from movies, TV shows and the internet. Mostly it was clips of absurdly graphic violence and ludicrous gore, soft core porn and general trash that seemed to fuel Channel 5 back then.
Despite it being absolute garbage, it was genuinely formative for me. It exposed me to martial arts movies of the 70s and 80s like Lone Wolf and Cub, horror-comedy gore-fests, and instilled within me a fascination and love for grindhouse and sleaze that I'm still exploring today through the likes of Shudder and Joe Bob Briggs.
In fact, I'm still seeking that feeling. Those late 90's/early 00's nights sat up after my family have gone to bed, catching a random sleazy horror movie on a high numbered channel with no lights on but the glow of the TV. Aren't we all? Good times.
Anyway, Wolf Guy definitely captures that feeling for me. It's a buck-wild mid-70's Japanese grindhouse spectacular that doesn't quite know if it's a noir detective story, a werewolf horror movie, a sex-fuelled revenge thriller, or all of the above. No, scratch that. It's not that it doesn't know. I think it just doesn't care!
It doesn't always make sense, and it's the only werewolf movie I've ever seen where the guy doesn't ever transform into a werewolf! (Apparently there were budgetary restraints). But it whizzes along at a decent clip, throwing in as much blood and boobs as it can along the way. If only I'd been watching this at 3am on my mom's living room floor, that really would have really set the scene.
When I was a teenager, there used to be a show on Channel 5 called 'Out There', which was a wild sort of late night clip show. It had a very 2000's feel to it, with a 'sexy' host called EVE who introduced all manner of clips from movies, TV shows and the internet. Mostly it was clips of absurdly graphic violence and ludicrous gore, soft core porn and general trash that seemed to fuel Channel 5 back then.
Despite it being absolute garbage, it was genuinely formative for me. It exposed me to martial arts movies of the 70s and 80s like Lone Wolf and Cub, horror-comedy gore-fests, and instilled within me a fascination and love for grindhouse and sleaze that I'm still exploring today through the likes of Shudder and Joe Bob Briggs.
In fact, I'm still seeking that feeling. Those late 90's/early 00's nights sat up after my family have gone to bed, catching a random sleazy horror movie on a high numbered channel with no lights on but the glow of the TV. Aren't we all? Good times.
Anyway, Wolf Guy definitely captures that feeling for me. It's a buck-wild mid-70's Japanese grindhouse spectacular that doesn't quite know if it's a noir detective story, a werewolf horror movie, a sex-fuelled revenge thriller, or all of the above. No, scratch that. It's not that it doesn't know. I think it just doesn't care!
It doesn't always make sense, and it's the only werewolf movie I've ever seen where the guy doesn't ever transform into a werewolf! (Apparently there were budgetary restraints). But it whizzes along at a decent clip, throwing in as much blood and boobs as it can along the way. If only I'd been watching this at 3am on my mom's living room floor, that really would have really set the scene.
