{"id":24422,"date":"2017-02-24T18:09:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T23:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=24422"},"modified":"2017-02-24T18:13:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T23:13:01","slug":"the-werewolf-reborn-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/24\/the-werewolf-reborn-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"The Werewolf Reborn! (1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s another episode of \u201cFilmonsters!\u201d and while I appreciate the inherent idea behind Full Moon composing hour long movies with broadly written monsters that vaguely resembled Universal\u2019s staples, this second movie isn\u2019t good. In fact it\u2019s almost the exact same movie as \u201cFrankenstein Reborn!\u201d To evoke emotions in the vein of RL Stine\u2019s \u201cGoosebumps\u201d the producers make a young girl the star of their story. I think if it took off, every \u201cFilmonsters!\u201d would have had young teenagers who realize something about themselves or their families while fighting monsters. I wonder if there would have been a \u201cGillman Reborn!\u201d with a young girl realizing she\u2019s from a family of ancient lizard people or something.<\/p>\n

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You can tell that Empire and Moonbeam were trying very hard to market off of the young adult horror television shows, because there is a lot of menace of the Full Moon horror movies with none of the depravity or gore. It\u2019s a very simple narrative when you get down to it; there\u2019s no time for examination or build up, it just is what it is. Ashley Lyn Cafagna is Eleanore, a young girl visiting her uncle in Romania who lives in a castle. She gets a cold reception from the Romanian villagers because she\u2019s American, and upon arriving at her uncle Peter\u2019s home, begins to hear rumors that he\u2019s a werewolf. She begins investigating his history with local gypsies after witnessing his supernatural healing ability, and makes friends with a gypsy boy and his grandmother.<\/p>\n

They provide about ninety percent of the exposition, and even Eleanore the bullets necessary in ending her uncle\u2019s reign of terror. In the end she has to either stick by her uncle and risk being murdered, or end his havoc as the werewolf. Of course she opts for logic, and that\u2019s about all she wrote. The second and final installment in the movie is bargain basement with a lot of the sets and locales completely reused. The writers do come up with good reasons for not including a lot of props.<\/p>\n

They probably couldn\u2019t afford a car, so in the script Eleanore is forced to walk to her uncle\u2019s home, and in the finale she is forced to go home alone on the train after enduring such a traumatic event. There\u2019s no confrontation with her parents, no one comes to see her, she\u2019s not held by Romanian authorities. There\u2019s not even an implication she might have some werewolf in her DNA. It just ends on her standing at the train tracks ready to go home with a very downbeat final scene. \u201cFilmonsters!\u201d has admirable intentions, but fails as a coherent attempt as a children\u2019s horror series. With a bigger budget, I think this could have been neat, but in the end, it\u2019s another stale werewolf movie.<\/p>\n