We watched The Wolf of Snow Hollow on Kevin’s recommendation last night. He had shown Sandy the trailer for it yesterday and she said it looked like a good movie, so we gave it a shot.

Movies don’t always live up to their trailers. I hadn’t watched the trailer myself, but if she said the trailer looked good, this is one of those cases. Of course, she didn’t think the movie was as bad as I did, so I guess I should have watched the trailer. Ok, I will. brb.

Yeah, it’s one of those cases alright. After thinking about it some more and reading a few YouTube comments under the trailer, it does seem to look like an episode of Fargo…with a werewolf thrown in. It’s kind of a quirky, comedy/horror film. Most of the time you don’t know whether to laugh, gasp, or gag. And the directing was just bizarre. I couldn’t follow it at times. It seemed to jump back and forth in time, quickly, in certain scenes, making it very confusing.

The acting seemed really bad also. Except for a couple characters – Robert Forster and Riki Lindhome, who played the Sheriff and a Deputy, respectively. The rest of the characters just weren’t even fleshed out enough to seem credible.

But I now see what’s going on here. The writer, director, and star of the movie are all the same person: Jim Cummings. Come on, how much can one person do? Was the budget just that low for this movie? Maybe, if the budget really was that low, this was a very good movie for the price, overall. When I think about it more, I wonder if this movie will turn out to be one of those cult classics that just has to be a must-watch for a movie or horror buff in the future. Either that, or a good “Jack of all trades, master of none” lesson.

It did have a nice twist at the end though, but even that seemed flat and didn’t pack as much punch as I expected. After watching it all the way through, I wanted there to be a huge, shocking twist of an ended that would make me say “AH, now it all makes sense and that was worthwhile to watch” but it just wasn’t there.

Overall, disappointing for me, but Sandy and Kevin liked it.