7) WolfCop
US Distribution: Image Entertainment
Release Date: January 20th, 2015
“Lou, you’re a wolf!”
“COP!”
That’s all you need to understand about WolfCop. Leo Fafard plays Lou Garou, an alcoholic small-town sheriff who gets turned into a werewolf, but instead of becoming a wild beast, Garou instead turns into a furry law enforcer who solves crimes as WolfCop! Because he’s a wolf, and a cop – you’re still with me, right? Much like my very next selection, WolfCop is not a film that’s meant to be taken seriously, so you can expect loads of wolf-related puns, some wicked transformations, and an obvious “Dirty Hairy” comparison – plus, WolfCop gets a little action. Yeah, Lowell Dean has too much fun playing around with WolfCop.
I love the resurgence of 80s style absurdity, because WolfCop is made for midnight audiences who already pounded a few drinks and bought into the “werewolf officer” concept so energetically enacted by Dean. He never bails on making Garou a monster wearing a sheriff’s outfit, switching between gunplay and werewolf carnage for a bloody mess of decapitated thugs, fleshy face masks, and some of the messiest transformations imaginable.
Mixing in plenty of references to “The Three Little Pigs” and “Little Red Riding Hood,” Jonathan Cherry, and a rockin’ soundtrack from the Shooting Guns, Lowell Dean has produced a pretty comical horror throwback about a werewolf law enforcer who even has his own theme song – because being a WolfCop wasn’t badass enough.
