LONE WOLF
It's like "Howling 7", with a werewolf
You remember Howling 7, right? Okay, no you don't, because you didn't see it because you had more sense than I did and avoided it. But some of you saw it anyway (yeah, this means you, Danny) and you know what I'm talking about. Remember how it padded out its running length with endless shots of country line-dancing? This movie - same idea, except we're shown a bar band on stage.
This band is from the fictional genre I like to call "movie metal". This is the kind of music you hear in a movie or on TV when the script calls for heavy metal. It's somewhere between the impossibly vapid poodle-rock of Poison and the old-fashioned American cheese of Dokken - with, unfortunately, lead guitar that sound more like DeVille than Lynch. I think it's important to note and appreciate that bands like this never actually existed in the real world. Sure, the real world has produced a lot of crap bands in a lot of different styles, but this subgenre is a cinematic creation, and I for oneam glad that it stayed that way. The music is credited to a band called Tyxe. My sanity depends on my continued belief that Tyxe was formed singularly for this film and broke up immediately after postproduction.
Oh yeah - one more difference. This movie actually has a werewolf in the plot. Mind you, for an hour, this werewolf going around killing people has nothing to do with the band or the other young adults in the movie, and his appearances are few. Still, when he shows himself at the end, he's actually pretty well done, and makes for an amusing scene at a costume party. Hey, the singer of the band is named Eddie Lupinski. Get it? Lupinski? Yeah, quit groaning. It's not like you heard it from the source like I did or anything.
Filmed in Colorado, pretty much by the same lamebrains who made Mindkiller. For cinemasochists only, and maybe those unstable few who really wish that movie metal was a real genre.