METALBEAST
The box doesn't even mention werewolves

  Once, JUST ONCE, I'd like to see a movie where some evil corporation/government creates the Perfect Killing Machine and...keeps it under control!

Back in 1974, a U.S. goon squad is dispatched to the Carpathian mountains to carry out Operation: Lycanthropus - the acquisition of some werewolf blood so that they can (natch) create the Perfect Killing Machine (hereafter referred to as the PKM).  It's sent back to the States, tests are run, an obviously insane (or, more likely, just stupid) researcher/exec/whatever decides to inject himself with it.  Needless to say, he turns into a werewolf, goes nuts, and attacks people, after which he's cryogenically frozen until...well, I don't know what their intent was, but let's just say until the plot makes it necessary to free him.

Flash forward to 1994 (back of the box says ten years).  A foxy researcher (Kim "What the hell am I doing in this movie" Delaney) is working on a way to turn skin into body armor.  Now, what are the odds that a certain werewolf will a) be freed from cryo-freeze, b) be subjected to the skin-armor treatment, c) bust loose, d) kill people, and e) provide a valuable lesson about reach exceeding grasp?  Again?

Yessir, what we've got here is a werewolf (played by Kane Hodder, like it matters).  And silver bullets bounce offa him like raisins off an Oldsmobile.  (anybody who can name where I stole that line from gets a big, sloppy kiss from me - so, I'm countin' on you Carla, beat Gore-Met and WSPig to the punch!)  This makes him, yes, the PKM.  Except that he's repelled by crosses, for some reason.  Maybe he's got a little vampire in him, which would make him even MORE of a PKM, except for that "sunlight" thing.

The PKM monster effects are not bad, but too obviously just a guy in a suit.  There's some fun action and gore, and cute women, but overall, it's just your standard PKM-on-the-rampage movie.  All the "door opening" sound effects are pretty much identical to the "inflating window" (or whatever) in Win95, which is pretty distracting, even though this movie predates Win95.

Good score by Conrad Pope, though.

Also known as Project: Metalbeast.  If you must watch, keep an eye out for South African hottie Musetta Vander.  

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