Werewolf

This is a raw, intense movie circling on despair, hopelessness and inevitable dead ends. It is about the dark. But in plumbing the pitch black, Werewolf offers the distinct hope of a brighter future – at least, a brighter future for Canadian cinema.

By means of ferociously intimate images, tensely controlled performances, and a spare sense of drama, Ashley McKenzie’s first feature, about two young drug addicts in Nova Scotia, conjures a state of heightened consciousness.

The film achieves a strange irony, as its formal abstractions serve to heighten our emotional connection to the characters.

Its story may be thin, its characters not particularly original, but McKenzie’s use of cinematic language is savvy and novel, finding complexity where others might find only emptiness.

The performers don’t seem like they’re acting at all, which contributes to the film’s unsettling power. The elliptical narrative structure articulates a sad truth of the addict’s life concerning both the challenge and the tedium of making it through to the next fix.

Werewolf isn’t about addiction’s cruelty. McKenzie has given us a story about an addict’s salvation.

For all her attempts at documentary-style verisimilitude, filmmaker Ashley McKenzie doesn’t really cover much new ground with Werewolf.

This movie was released in 2016! Please edit release year. About movie itself, it's okay, but i wouldn't ever want rewatch it again. Probably this movie was made for film critics instead of people. I strongly do not recommend to watch it if you wanna have a good time.

It's bleak, I mean it's a bleak existence but with 70 minutes long, the film goes absolutely nowhere. Perhaps for the actors it was a challenge, even if you take into account their robotic performances, but as a viewer, there's nothing you can take with you in the end. You don't know them, you don't know anything about them, and the narrative never seeks to answer that. It's just two drug addicts living a miserable day to day, until the story finally stops. Nothing was resolved, the director simply decided to put an end to it at that time. This was mediocre.