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Pulling away from fan films once and for all, Larry
Longstreth has a lot to prove to his fans and he's proving that he can
do films that don't revolve around the comedy genre. With that deviation
he takes it upon himself to create a really damn good short film called
"The Wimp Whose Woman Was a Werewolf," a movie I expected to be
completely predictable (Because seriously, what else can you do with
werewolf movies?) but was surprised to find was a completely unique
story that leaves its werewolf element as a secondary trait.
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Jack is an average schmoe who works at a
local fish supply corporation where he sits alongside his
dream girl Cheyenne. Everyone mocks Jack for being a geek
and wonders how he ever grabbed someone as idyllic as
Cheyenne, but she sticks by him and is devoted to him
regardless of the mocking. What begins as a classic tragic
romance where the doomed Jack will invariably stand by his
cursed love Cheyenne, ends as a surprise prologue to a wider
story that could surely be stretched in to a feature film.
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With cameos by Lloyd
Kaufman and me (no seriously), Longstreth fashions an entertaining
horror short with strong performances by Marisa Zakaria as the
cursed Cheyenne, and genuinely excellent creature effects by Paul
Molnar who creates a werewolf monster that is a hybrid of the
classic bipedal lycanthrope with some features from Cheyenne whose
own devotion to Jack always manages to keep her coming back to her
human form in spite of her animal urges. Longstreth continues
branching out on his own with some rich genre shorts, and I look
forward to what he can do with a feature length film soon enough.
With a surprise ending and some wicked special effects,
"The Wimp..." is another twisted short entry from director Longstreth
who continues to impress with a creative take on a tired sub-genre.
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