“Viking Wolf,” a Werewolf Movie With Bite…
Many will talk about love this Valentine’s Day. Here, we will talk about werewolves! Kissing don’t last, bitemarks do…
I’ll have to admit that I was initially put off this film by its title of Viking Wolf, as well as by its premise that the werewolf in question was a 17-year-old girl. I didn’t want to see some dreadful teenage first date movie, or see my beloved werewolf horror subgenre messed with. Happily, I got around my reservations to find that Viking Wolf was worthy werewolf horror, and bites in a good way…
Now as for the Vikings, it seems Iike in 1050 they raided a monastery, cutting down the hapless monks who implored them not to break into a sealed room wherein resided the hound of hell, embodied as a wolf pup. Vikings like wolves, so they took junior on their ship back with them, which was a big mistake as he slaughtered them all on route, and established the werewolf bloodline in Norway.
Then almost a thousand years later, big city girl Thale transplanted to a small town with her police officer mother goes to a teen party in the woods where the werewolf bloodline member active selects dinner from the partygoers, and Thale gets a shoulder wound in the fracas…uh oh! She becomes increasingly wolfy and out of control, leading to memorable moments like the slaughter of a bus load of passengers when the moon triggers the transformation of Thale riding on the bus. Bless her heart, she wolfs out while still wearing her hoodie!
Well, it takes a grizzled old werewolf hunter missing an arm to get Mom to realize that her daughter is hopelessly a werewolf, and that a silver bullet is the only remedy for the “infection.”- – Talk about tough love!
Some people have called this “the best werewolf movie that they’ve ever seen,” but I wouldn’t go that far although the film is worthy of the traditions it invokes, tweaking them in an innovative way. The film does drag a bit in its earlier parts, and the werewolf design is less humanoid than what I like to see. This is basically a big, mangy wolf. There are missed cinematic opportunities, possibly due to time and budget restraints. We don’t get to see the actual blitz on the bus, for example, but only its aftermath. Still, this is a serious, well-acted and suspenseful film that shows us that the female can be the deadlier of the species…ARROO! RAWRR! 🐺
(…and Happy Valentine’s Day to all you young suckers in love from the resident fox anthro!)
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February 14, 2023 at 5:32 pm
Actually, this wouldn’t be the first female werewolf in movies or TV. There was 1946′ SHE-WOLF OF LONDON (starring June Lockhart, pre-LASSIE and LOST IN SPACE:TOS). Followed forty-five years later by the namesake-but-otherwise-unrelated TV series.* Plus the start of Canada’s GINGER SNAPS franchise in 2000.** Followed five years later, by my personal favorite, CURSED (with Cristina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg and that ex-Pacey guy from DAWSON’S CREEK.
*The title character was like BTVS, having a bad hair day…all over.
**GS2 co-starred a pre-ORPHAN BLACK Tatiana Maslany.
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February 14, 2023 at 9:20 pm
Wow! June Lockhart as a SHE-WOLF! She could have carried that identity into LOST IN SPACE and started slaughtering the Jupiter 2 crew, leading to a climatic fight with the Robot to save the life of Will Robinson! 🐺
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February 14, 2023 at 10:01 pm
Would you believe Irwin Allen actually did almost that? See the first season episode called “Space Croppers”!
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February 14, 2023 at 5:37 pm
Actually, this wouldn’t be the first female werewolf in movies or TV. There was 1946′ SHE-WOLF OF LONDON (starring June Lockhart, pre-LASSIE and LOST IN SPACE:TOS). Followed forty-five years later by the namesake-but-otherwise-unrelated TV series.* Plus the start of Canada’s GINGER SNAPS franchise in 2000.** Followed five years later, by my personal favorite, CURSED (with Cristina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg and that ex-Pacey guy from DAWSON’S CREEK).
*The title character was like BTVS, having a bad hair day…all over.
**GS2 co-starred a pre-ORPHAN BLACK Tatiana Maslany.
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February 14, 2023 at 5:58 pm
Yet, when it comes to werewolf flicks, regardless of gender, my sentimental favorites remain 1940’s THE WOLF MAN, 1981’s AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, and 2002’s DOG SOLDIERS in that order.
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February 14, 2023 at 10:26 pm
I also like Hugh Jackman’s turn as a werewolf in “Van Helsing,” where as the younger titular character he fought in werewolf form an incredible battle against Dracula! 🐺
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February 15, 2023 at 2:17 am
Oh, yeah! 🙂
That big-budget tribute to the Universal horror films of yore was criminally underrated.
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February 14, 2023 at 5:38 pm
Oh, crap! How did that duplication happen? 😦
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February 19, 2023 at 3:23 am
One final thought on this subject. If you’ve never seen it, you should try and find a DVD of the 2009 made-for-Syfy Channel movie “Thor: Hammer of the Gods.” It makes extensive use of that normally ignored facet of Norse mythology re: Fenris and the Midgard Serpent technically being half-brothers.
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February 19, 2023 at 12:34 pm
I’ll have to look that up! I’m a Fenris fan. Wolves are, after all, sort of like my cousins… 🐺
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February 19, 2023 at 6:41 pm
So, if you were a Classic World of Darkness player (as in, the original “Werewolf: The Apocalypse” rpg from White Wolf Games), you would be Get of Fenris rather than Kitsune?
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February 19, 2023 at 8:22 pm
No…I’d still go with Kitsune! 🦊
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February 19, 2023 at 8:38 pm
Good fur you! 🙂
*Sorry! I just couldn’t resist. 😉
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March 4, 2023 at 3:38 am
Oh, well! Maybe this will make up for it. If you loved Richard Dreyfuss as Hooper in JAWS, you will probably love hating him in the cable action thriller “Daughter of the Wolf.” Imagine if Charlie Manson had been one of the hillbillies in DELIVERANCE!
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February 22, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Btw: speaking of foxes (20th Century or otherwise); for those of your fans who get Disney+? THE MANDALORIAN is evidently going to be having its Season 3 premiere pretty soon. Complete with Yoda Junior (or whatever his name is).
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