Werewolf: All Hallow's Eve is set in a small town where Eric (John J. York) has found a job in a shop called Hampton's Hardware. It's Halloween & the town is gearing up for the annual celebrations, however for Eric he is fearful of changing into a Werewolf & decides to lock himself in what he thinks is an old rundown abandoned house. There he intends to chain himself up & see the night out but it soon becomes clear that he isn't the only one in the house trying to hide from the rest of the town & that it's far from abandoned...
Episode fourteen from the one & only season of Werewolf this obviously Halloween themed episode originally aired in the US on the 31st October 1987, I suppose if your going to make a Halloween themed episode that's the right date to screen it. Directed by Larry Shaw this is a good solid episode that scores more points for atmosphere than actual plot although even that ain't too bad. Here Eric decides to hide himself away in a seemingly abandoned house & finds a disfigured man also hiding from the world. Then a bunch of teenagers turn up & the moral of the story kicks in, the basic moral that 'normal' people are the real monsters rather than vicious killer Werewolves or deformed people who have no face. Hey, it works for me! This episode is a decent watch but the ending is a bit weak, neither regular character's Skorzeny or bounty hunter Rogan appear in All Hallow's Eve & as such can be taken a completely stand alone episode that doesn't really fit into the overall plot of the series as a whole. Eric as a Werewolf isn't really needed in this one & as such the Werewolf only turns up at the end for two scenes & the makers obviously decided it would be more effective if we never see Gavin's deformed face as they never show it which works quite well.
There seems to be quite a few horror film homages here in this one, for a start Gavin the disfigured man wears a potato sack over his head with one eye hole cut out which is a direct rip-off of the killer in The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) & Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) in which infamous slasher film killer Jason Voorhees wore the same disguise before he got his trademark iconic hockey mask in Friday the 13th Part III (1982). The whole rundown abandoned mansion plot with some teenagers in fancy dress visiting it for a party only to find some crazy guy lurking around inside reminded me strongly of the Linda Blair teen slasher flick Hell Night (1981) in both it's story & the way it looked. There's a really cool horror film atmosphere to this episode, the rundown abandoned house with cobwebs everywhere, boarded up windows with shafts of moonlight coming in through he gaps & lighting the scene to the exterior shots of the hose where the camera is low on the ground to presumably try & give the property some sense of imposing height. Then again maybe I'm just reading too much into it...
All Hallow's Eve is a good Halloween themed episode that seems to deliberately pay homage to various other horror films & the whole haunted house genre. Fans of the series should like it & casual viewers should as well as it makes for a good stand alone episode that you don't have to be familiar with the series to follow.
Episode fourteen from the one & only season of Werewolf this obviously Halloween themed episode originally aired in the US on the 31st October 1987, I suppose if your going to make a Halloween themed episode that's the right date to screen it. Directed by Larry Shaw this is a good solid episode that scores more points for atmosphere than actual plot although even that ain't too bad. Here Eric decides to hide himself away in a seemingly abandoned house & finds a disfigured man also hiding from the world. Then a bunch of teenagers turn up & the moral of the story kicks in, the basic moral that 'normal' people are the real monsters rather than vicious killer Werewolves or deformed people who have no face. Hey, it works for me! This episode is a decent watch but the ending is a bit weak, neither regular character's Skorzeny or bounty hunter Rogan appear in All Hallow's Eve & as such can be taken a completely stand alone episode that doesn't really fit into the overall plot of the series as a whole. Eric as a Werewolf isn't really needed in this one & as such the Werewolf only turns up at the end for two scenes & the makers obviously decided it would be more effective if we never see Gavin's deformed face as they never show it which works quite well.
There seems to be quite a few horror film homages here in this one, for a start Gavin the disfigured man wears a potato sack over his head with one eye hole cut out which is a direct rip-off of the killer in The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) & Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) in which infamous slasher film killer Jason Voorhees wore the same disguise before he got his trademark iconic hockey mask in Friday the 13th Part III (1982). The whole rundown abandoned mansion plot with some teenagers in fancy dress visiting it for a party only to find some crazy guy lurking around inside reminded me strongly of the Linda Blair teen slasher flick Hell Night (1981) in both it's story & the way it looked. There's a really cool horror film atmosphere to this episode, the rundown abandoned house with cobwebs everywhere, boarded up windows with shafts of moonlight coming in through he gaps & lighting the scene to the exterior shots of the hose where the camera is low on the ground to presumably try & give the property some sense of imposing height. Then again maybe I'm just reading too much into it...
All Hallow's Eve is a good Halloween themed episode that seems to deliberately pay homage to various other horror films & the whole haunted house genre. Fans of the series should like it & casual viewers should as well as it makes for a good stand alone episode that you don't have to be familiar with the series to follow.
