If you like your werewolf movies completely void of werewolves, then this is the movie for you. It isn’t actually Werewolf Island, it’s Dog Lady Island. To make it even less scary, the dog lady is a slow moving, clown white faced ghost you can get away from by walking at a slightly faster than normal pace.
Detective Michael James receives a call from his nephew who trespassed on the island with his girlfriend and got attacked by the dog lady. Mike and his partner head to the scene of the attack but find nothing of significance.
While doing further investigation, the movie veers into story within a story territory when they visit Dan, who opens a scrapbook and tells them the history of Dog Lady Island. We are treated to a narrative on the Native Americans who cursed the island after the French attacked them and took their land, some mobsters in the 1920s, and 1970s bikers.
This is a really low budget amateur production based on a local legend. It’s difficult to get through. The acting is on par with what you’d see in community theater. Based on the line reads, I assumed some of the actors either had never acted before, or were cast because they were friends of the director. Surprisingly the actors in question actually had other credits on IMDB. Granted they appear to be local productions, but still amazing considering they deliver their lines with inflections that humans don’t use in conversation. It would have been more understandable if at the end of the film it was revealed they were aliens trying to pass as humans. It would make no sense within the context of the story, but you’d think ohhhhh so that’s why they were so stilted and awkward when interacting with the others.
The costumes appear to be from a Halloween store rather than clothing truly representing the period in time. Some of the French soldiers obviously have wigs, which makes it strange that they didn’t provide wigs to all the soldiers. It’s disconcerting to see modern haircuts on 1700s French soldiers, especially when some of the other actors have wigs. The guy who plays the main soldier also plays the head mobster. Is that why he had a wig? Were we not supposed to notice?
In some of the scenes, the dialogue is in direct conflict with what we are seeing on screen. At the beginning of the movie, Mikes nephew brings his girlfriend into what is supposed to be woods.They stop where he says, “there’s an opening in the trees.” The problem is you can see it’s a mostly open space with only a few trees. Also when Mike goes to investigate the attack on the island, the blanket is found right inside the gate. Yet the young couple walked far into the island and had to run away from the dog lady to get back to the gate.
If you live in the area of Dog Lady Island, maybe you want to see what is being filmed in your neighborhood. Otherwise it probably won’t appeal to anyone other than those involved in the making of the movie.
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