Review – Wolfhound

We can now officially add Irish wolfhounds to the list of animals that are a real struggle to make scary. And when the whole plot of the movie revolves around an American man returning to the Emerald Isle and slowly – oh so slowly – discovering that he has a genetic predisposition to shape-shift into one of the aforementioned wooly house pets, you can bet it’s going to be sort of hard to keep the show going. Sadly, things don’t heat up all that much when one of the doggies turns out to be a former Playmate of the Year (without a trace of Irish accent) who spends a copious amount of time in the altogether. A lot of this movie was more amusing the first time I saw it, when it was called The Howling. At least that one had actual werewolves rather than big shaggy dogs and cheap video effects. See if desperate