The Wolf of Snow Hollow

A massive effort to produce a sober and as realistic as possible take on werewolf horror that at first glance offers an interesting blend of satiric crime drama with a murderous monster in the attractive setting of a snowy neo-western. The scenes with the hairy creature are great and the climax is quite surprising, but the rest is mostly unappealing family filler and an unlikeable protagonist whose actions are quite a big obstacle to the potentially tense entertainment. The humour doesn’t hurt, but other that one truly funny scene, it lacks memorable poetics and is unable to hide the fact that the ambitious creator means this very seriously, and the comedy reliefs are only pasted on the ineffective development of the characters, who themselves are ineffective. It’s OK to waste 80 minutes of your life, but we will still have to wait for a properly good werewolf film. 55% (16.10.2020)

"Please enlighten us! Did you take forensic psychology at your college online?" - There are definitely some funny lines and a few good scares in the horror-comedy thriller The Wolf of Snow Hollow, but for some reason it doesn't really work together. The basis of a good movie should be a good script, but this one is not one of the best. Yet the picturesque mountain setting where the action takes place could have served as a great backdrop for a nicely chilling horror film. (40%) (08.03.2023)

The Wolf of Snow Hollow greets the viewer with an appealing intro and a promising premise about a sleepy town ("Sleepy" Snow Hollow) run by a psychopathic maniac or...maybe something else, the supernatural. Unfortunately, the film is incredibly undermined by the main character John, who was incomprehensibly hysterical and annoying. That being said, the supporting characters of the ailing father (RIP Robert Forster) or Juliet were likeable. As for the denouement, I found it quite strange, surprising and to some extent novel, but strange nonetheless. Despite a few black-humored moments that livened up the film a bit, I (unfortunately) didn't find myself liking it. Maybe I'll give it another chance in the future (88% on Rotten Tomatoes doesn't sit well with me). P.S. Jim Cummings has an unmistakably distinctive toe – coincidence?! (12.10.2020)