The premise is great, I love the tone, it's pretty funny, and I was generally amused. Everything in the setup intrigued me. But as an overall movie, I feel like it just missed the mark of being something memorable and rewatchable. And while the mystery aspect was well-done, they completely give it away at one point. I'm glad I watched it, but it missed the cut. (1 viewing, 2/3/2022)

What's starts out as an interesting collection of funny characters ends up disappointing. This was actually a video game?

Don't expect a scary werewolf movie as there is nothing scary about this movie and the only werewolf there is shows up in the last five minutes as a very cheap digital effect copy/pasted over the only character that could not make a werewolf scary at all. No horror or suspense. Most of the characters die off from everything else but a werewolf. I really wanted to enjoy this movie on the same level as other horror-comedies, but someone dropped the ball with the screenplay. There is hardly any werewolf, the "shocking" twist is disappointing and the ending sucks.

In the remote mountain community of Beaverfield, a werewolf is at work, targeting the locals. With the power out, and no way to get help, the townsfolk gather at the local inn, unsure whether one of them is the savage beast in human form.

Despite the plurality of the title, Werewolves Within features just one werewolf, and it only makes an appearance at the very end of the film. It also looks like Michael J. Fox in TeenWolf, only angrier. As far as lycanthrope action goes, the movie is a major let-down.

Adapted from a video game I have never heard of, the film is a horror comedy with the emphasis on comedy, which is fine by me in principle, except that the comedy is also a big disappointment: the characters are an oddball collection, but nothing that they do or say is actually funny.

So that's NOT scary and NOT funny.

3/10.