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3/10
eye transplant creates werewolf; blood, guts, and boobs
FieCrier9 October 2005
Hunters chase what they think is a man through the forest, though the audience sees he is a werewolf. The hunters never seem to realize this, because after they shoot him, he looks normal when they decapitate him.

A doctor transplants the werewolf's eyes into a man who lost his own in a laboratory experiment. The man, Rich, gets to have sex with his nurse (Stephanie Beaton) before he even gets his bandages removed.

After he leaves the hospital, he finds his wife has been cheating on him too. When a smoke machine sends clouds past an amateur painting of a moon (with a fake tree branch on the foreground), he turns into a werewolf! His torso grows larger, splitting his shirt, and he grows a giant werewolf mask on his head that has red lights in the eyes. His pants stay intact. The mouth chews unconvincingly, though some sort of robotics (or hidden hands) in the eyebrows give him a baleful look at times.

Despite the poor werewolf costume, there is a fair amount of blood and gore, and those are fairly well done. There's even a pretty good decapitation later in the movie. However, when a man falls from a height, a rather bad dummy does the job.

Rich has a friend named Siodmak who is some sort of occult expert, and he also accidentally stumbles across a small man with crutches named Androse who is also such an expert. They try to help him a little.

Rich kills people who have done him wrong. A policewoman investigates the murders and tries to hit on Beaton, who doesn't much care for lesbian scenes so nothing comes of it.

Quite cheap, but between the nudity and blood and gore, and a not-terrible story combining (sort of) The Most Dangerous Game with The Hands of Orlac and The Wolf Man, it's somewhat entertaining. Available on its own, or in the box set Scream Queens Vol. 1.
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3/10
Barely watchable shot-on-video werewolf flick.
capkronos26 September 2008
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A group of hunters track down a werewolf, kill it, decapitate it and then sell the head to unethical Dr. Atwill (played by director/writer Tim Sullivan), who runs a private clinic specializing in corneal transplants. Research chemist Rich Stevens (Mark Sawyer), whose eyes were destroyed when acid flew into his face during a lab explosion, is the unlucky recipient of the werewolf's eyeballs. It takes awhile to get to the first full moon, so first we get a tender love story between Rich and his compassionate, big-breasted nurse Sondra Gard (Stephanie Beaton). Sondra is so compassionate that she strips off her clothing and starts riding Rich in bed before he even has a chance to remove his bandages! After a month in the hospital, Rich returns home to icy wife Rita (Deborah Huber), who promptly tells him "You look pretty ugly" before speeding off in her Kia. Our hero soon discovers that Rita is not only a bitch, but an adulterous skank who's been carrying on an affair with his supposed friend Craig (Lyndon Johnson). Finally, the full moon rises and Rich finds himself in a hairy predicament as he transforms into a (very silly looking) werewolf creature. Predictable carnage ensues.

After ripping out Craig's throat on a beach, Rich wakes up in the brush the next morning with his clothes tattered and vague recollections of the evening's events. He makes friends with dwarf psychic/occult expert Andros (Kurt Levi) and is hassled by both local author Siodmak (Jason Clark) and lesbian-police-detective-in-a-pants-suit Justine Evers (Tarri Markel). When Rich confronts Dr. Atwill, the doctor sends his sadistic bald henchman Kass (Eric Mestressat), who gets a kick out of dismembering corpses with a machete at the clinic, after him. With help from Sondra, Rich manages to escape. Sondra takes him back to her place and basically rapes him on the couch during an overlong sex scene that lasts about five minutes. Will Rich be able to control his lycanthropy or find a cure for it before he claims more victims?

Shot on the cheap with a camcorder, this homemade werewolf flick has a somewhat unique premise with the eye transplant angle, but trots out cliché after cliché otherwise. The sets are sub porn level - the clinic scenes seem to have been filmed inside someone's home or apartment. The wolf transformation scenes don't even look as good as the time lapse photography used way back in the 1940s. Instead, they employ ragged editing. Throw some hair on the actor. Cut. Throw on some more on. Cut. More fur... and fill his mouth full of white gunk he can spit out. Cut. No need to worry about continuity! There's no fade, no dissolve, nothing. It's pretty sloppy. Once fully transformed, the werewolf costume (designed by Jeff Leroy, who also edited and shot the movie) is pretty awful. It has red, glowing Christmas bulb eyes, fur that looks like shag carpet and a plastic face that's almost completely immobile. There are several times you can see the cameraman's fingers in front of the camera lens, and does the moon really stay full five nights in a row? As far as the cast is concerned, they're amateurish, but tolerable. And as far as B horror flicks are concerned, there are worse out there. This one is paced fairly well, is only 70 minutes long and does provide plenty of the red stuff during the attack scenes, as well as the aforementioned T&A from Ms. Beaton.

It was produced by David S. Sterling (CAMP BLOOD), who was one of the first to ride the wave of digital video right when it was first starting to dominate the low-budget/independent horror genre scene back in the mid/late 90s. Many of his notoriously awful productions were released by Brain Damage Films, a label to avoid like the plague for the most part. Fx guy Jeff Leroy (who is listed as co-director here at IMDb, but not in the film's actual credits) and Vinnie Bilancio (who appears in a small role as one of the hunters) went on to make the much more fun and polished exploitation flick WEREWOLF IN A WOMEN'S PRISON in 2006, which had a similar-looking creature on display (red glowing eyes and all).
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5/10
Amateur werewolf movie with some good ideas
Teknofobe701 May 2005
I'll admit that exactly how movies like this ever manage to get a proper DVD release is beyond me. My guess is, some distribution company figures that if they throw together a decent-looking DVD cover, they can trick people into thinking they're buying a real movie. This, however, is your standard amateur movie -- the picture quality looks like something you can achieve on home video, certainly not like anything a studio would ever put out. Some of the special effects are terrible, while others are acceptable. I have no problem with all this, I think it's great that people can just come together and make a werewolf movie for the sheer joy of making it, and not actually throw any money at it. But they shouldn't really expect that much in return.

But all that aside, let's judge it on it's own terms. While the script would need a huge overhaul to create something resembling quality, the plot itself has some merit. It involves an unscrupulous surgeon who buys body parts on the black market to use in transplants. One of his patients is a man horribly disfigured in a lab accident, and he unwittingly gives him the eyes of a werewolf, which infects the man with lycanthropy. After committing a string of murders, the man seeks help among those closest to him -- a nurse he has fallen in love with, a determined writer on the supernatural, and a mysterious dwarf.

You can't say it isn't original. And aside from the few plot holes (for example, "I need some help finding a werewolf ... oo, I'll call up my friend, the disabled dwarf!"), it's reasonably entertaining but to be honest a bit trashy. I'm afraid none of the cast have a future in acting. Our hero and the nurse only know each other for about two and a half minutes before jumping into bed together (the actors even manage to have sex unconvincingly), which lead me to believe I might be watching a soft core porn movie with forty minutes of padding in between sex scenes. And the unresolved lesbian sub-plot doesn't help.

My advice is, don't fork out for this one unless you enjoy amateur movies. And if you do, there are better ones out there -- maybe take a look at "Exhumed" first.
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3/10
Bad werewolf movies: Eyes of the Werewolf
Captain_Couth26 February 2009
Eyes of the Werewolf (1999) is a really bad movie. The premise was real good but the overall execution was just terrible. I wished the filmmakers would have taken their time with this project instead of rushing it into production. Some blind dude gets some new eyes, bad thing is that they belong to a mean old werewolf. Nasty things begins to happen to the dude as he turns into a cheesy looking creature. Can he find a cure before his hot girlfriend finds out? Who is that weird little troll who helps him out and what's up with that female cop? If you really want to find out, check out Eyes of the Werewolf!

Not a bad idea for a movie. I just wished the filmmakers would have spent a lot for time in pre-production before they decided to shoot the movie.
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Stephanie Beaton saves werewolf flick from total obscurity
Dr. Gore18 September 2005
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*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*

A guy has to have emergency surgery because he scarred his eyes in a lab accident. Unfortunately for him, his doctor gets his organs from unwilling donors. This time, the doctor had a werewolf killed and took the beast's eyes for his patient. The werewolf curse is passed on to his patient via the eyes. Hence, "Eyes of the Werewolf". The werewolf goes around killing people as cheaply as possible with only a horny, large breasted nurse and a dwarf to comfort him. Guess which friend he spends the most time with?

I rented this movie because I have a manic need to see every werewolf movie ever made. This was one that slipped under the radar. I now see why it slipped under the radar. "Eyes of the Werewolf" is a very low budget wolf man flick. The werewolf likes to bite people in the neck and then chew on their entrails. It all sounds nice and gory but when you see it you'll know that the money didn't go to the special effects. They weren't that special. However, "Eyes of the Werewolf" is a straight forward monster flick even if it was made for $500. At least it didn't try to get too fancy. It couldn't afford to. Thank God they had some extra money to spend on the hot nurse.

"Eyes of the Werewolf" would pretty much be a forgettable flick if it were not for the presence of Stephanie Beaton. Beaton is the large breasted nurse who falls in love with the wolf man and must have sex with him right away. At least the filmmakers were smart enough to recognize their best asset and exploit it for all that its worth. Beaton has two long sex scenes, one in a hospital bed and another on a couch, that linger on her breasts for as long as possible. She also has another large breasted woman hit on her at the end but they never consummate their budding relationship. Now, if I was making this movie, I would have had the two of them in bed and then her werewolf lover would break down the door and attack in a jealous rage. That would have been great. Alas, it was not to be as the werewolf was more melancholy than enraged. That kind of sums up my feelings about "Eyes of the Werewolf". *Sigh*
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7/10
Would've been fine with an imposing monster
slayrrr66617 November 2006
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"Eyes of the Werewolf" is a clever concept, but ultimately lacking werewolf film.

**SPOILERS**

Waking up in a hospital after a chemical accident, scientist Rich Stevens, (Mark Sawyer) learns from Dr. Atwill, (Tim Sullivan) that he has received a new set of eyes in a new transplant. Going home, he quickly becomes the prime suspect in a number of vicious murders, and friends Siodmak, (Jason Clark) and Androse, (Kurt Levi) eventually tell him that he is a werewolf. Confronting Dr. Atwill and his nurse Sondra Gard, (Stephanie Beaton) about the surgery, Sondra believes him and tries to help him with the struggle to rid himself of the curse.

The Good News: This wasn't all that bad and has some decent moments in it. The initial set-up and premise is one of the best ones available for this type of film. It's hard to actually come up with a nice and original storyline, and this is pretty creative. Having the hunting party that opens the film simply unaware of what's going on and then come out afterwards with the set-up is quite unexpected. There's some nice gore in here with some decent kills. There's several mangled throats and necks, a few scratched up, one has their eyes ripped out, and another has their head ripped off with gory bits spilling out, with some more. There's some blood flowing along with the kills, so there's some good stuff for gore-hounds. A couple of the stalking scenes aren't that terrible, with the first hunter kill and the beach attack coming as great reminders. The single best trait for this film, though, is Stephanie Beaton. She has two long sex scenes, one in a hospital bed and another on a couch, and both linger on her for as long as possible. She also has another woman hit on her at the end, and it has some nice moments but they never consummate their budding relationship. It's overall pretty decent.

The Bad News: There's still a lot to dislike here. The main thing comes from the werewolf itself. It's nice that the werewolf is a man in a costume, but the costume looks really atrocious. It looks like a guy with big hairy arms and claws, with an elongated torso that almost gives it the appearance of being a hunchback in certain scenes. The biggest mistake is a big werewolf head mask that looks incredibly cheesy. It's a pretty bad costume and looks ridiculous nonetheless because his top half is noticeably larger than his lower torso and has a very odd look. That would've been fine had it looked fine, but then the fact that everything on here looks so cheaply done that it's hard to take most of it seriously. It shouldn't bother me, but it does and it's a distraction, especially when the film makes blatant errors in keeping with the mythology of werewolves. They can't be revealed, but it plays fast and loose with them and is hard for fans to shake free. All this would've been fine had the monster not looked so bad, which drags down the film a lot.

The Final Verdict: This would've been a decent werewolf film had the creature itself been more imposing. That is the main thing holding this down, as it's an acceptably gory and sleazy tale with some creativity, but there's some other big problems that keep this down. Only the most forgiving ones are advised to take a look, as the good parts can be found elsewhere.

Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, several sex scenes and Language
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