He wants to do a good job, but is nearly crippled by either self-doubt/self-loathing or by his own incredibly loose cannon temper. He's created a cop-hero who is far from ordinary. ![]() Writer/director/star Jim Cummings is a singular filmmaker. None of this sounds like a recipe for a very successful movie, and yet there is something about WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW. It isn't a parody movie in the vein of SCARY MOVIE it mines most of its humor in the bumbling antics of the police and other townspeople. It's also a comedy (surprise!), but not quite a knee-slapper. It isn't horrifically gory (but it's a little gory), so you don't have that guilty pleasure. But really, it's not that terribly scary. Can the committed but anger-management challenged sheriff (Jim Cummings) coral his team long enough to track down the creature? It's a horror movie, yes. A small town, with an understaffed and undertrained police force, is forced to contend with a supernatural killer. Yes, on the surface, it's a werewolf movie. WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW is a difficult film to describe in a meaningful way. My rating of "The Wolf of Snow Hollow" settles on a well-deserved six out of ten stars. I think that "The Wolf of Snow Hollow" is definitely a worth addition to the werewolf genre, and I can warmly recommend that you watch the movie if you enjoy werewolf movies. The special effects in this movie were actually quite good, taking into consideration that this was not a movie that were heavily reliant on special effects to carry it. ![]() And that is something I enjoy in movies, seeing new and unfamiliar talents whose faces aren't already associated with previously portrayed characters in other movies. The acting performances in "The Wolf of Snow Hollow" were quite good, and were for the most part done by actors and actresses that I weren't already familiar with. It was a rather well-written storyline that definitely had some good flavor to it, and the plot twist was actually good I enjoyed the way the storyline panned out, especially since it was built up so that you were expecting it to be the most obvious of choices as to whom was the werewolf in Snow Hollow. And I must say that I was actually genuinely entertained by writer and director Jim Cummings's movie. And it being a werewolf movie definitely helped win me over. But still, this being a new movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I sat down to watch it. Why? Well, I hadn't heard about it, and usually werewolf movies tend to be dubious. Initially, I must admit that I didn't have much of any expectations for the 2020 movie titled "The Wolf of Snow Hollow". I like what I've seen so far of Cummings as an actor and director and this film will keep me coming back for more. ![]() It doesn't do a great job of striking the right tone - the humor isn't ever quite funny enough but everything else is treated a bit too lightly to ever be taken seriously - but the film does have a bold sense of style that I appreciated. The ending is unsatisfying, but the movie leading up to the ending is pretty decent. There's clearly a MeToo inspired vein of male apology running through the film, but it all gets a bit muddled by a screenplay that doesn't quite know where it wants to go. The werewolf concept acts as an allegory for both the monstrous impulses Cummings himself feels and that he's driven to when drinking, and the predatory world of men in general and the danger they pose to women in general and his teenage daughter specifically. Gruesome murders start happening in the small Utah town of the film's setting, and after Cummings first rejects the far out theory that they might be the work of a werewolf, he begins to toy with the idea that maybe there's something to it as the murders continue to go unsolved. Cummings plays a police officer (again) with rage issues (again) and an alcohol addiction. "The Wolf of Snow Hollow" isn't as good as that movie, but that's partially because it's more ambitious, so I give him credit for trying. The film is the brain child of writer/director/star Jim Cummings, whose film "Thunder Road" I adored. There's a lot going on thematically in this uneven horror comedy.
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