You’ve got your Robocop, your Vampire Detective (does anyone remember Forever Knight?), your magician detective (Hey, Jim Butcher!), so Wolfcop, in all its bloody glory, seems both inevitable and karmically acceptable. It’s about time. We just didn’t expect it to come from such an eerie, inexplicable, downright demented place:
Canada.
This mad little product of the Great White North, a tribute to cop dramas and lyco-cinema, looks like a lot of fun, and more than a little violent (but then what good werewolf movie isn’t? Other than Teen Wolf?). We follow the alcoholic police officer Lou Garou (Get it? Lou Garou? No? Look it up.) as he is bitten, transformed, and becomes, essentially, A Wolfman with a Badge, and really, given what we see shambling into the theaters and VODs of the U.S., why shouldn’t this charming little piece of pop-cult join us here?
Look, we’re not alone here. Charlie Jane Anders (who’s almost always right) of io9 said it’s “destined to become a cult phenomenon.” JoBlo over at Arrow in the Head said it’s a “perfect blend of horror and comedy,” while the folks at MoviesOnline mincedno words: they just called it “original and borderline insane.”
What more could we want? Especially from a Canadian movie.
It’s opening north of the border on June 6, but so far (if we’ve got this right), there are no plans for a U.S. release, and that sucks (or in this case, slashes). One of AmityvilleNow’s first allies, horror aficionado and co-founder of The Horror Nation Heather Omen, asked us to spread the word in hopes that writer Lowell Dean and director Christian Piers Betley get it a distribution deal for the U.S. So we’re stepping up. These two guys brought us wilderness-stalker 13 Eerie last year, starring A1 Canadian talent like Katherine Isabelle, Michael Shanks, and Brendan Fehr (yay, Roswell!), and it was…well, good, you know? While this looks inspired.
Here’s the trailer! Go to WolfCop’s own website right here. Join them on your favorite social mdia and beat the drum, people! If we have to suffer through crap like Birdemic and the Twilight movies, we deserve a little gleeful relief…like WolfCop!
