I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

After a brilliantly suspenseful first half, the film deteriorates into silliness. All the characters act stupidly, which is just not normal behavior, and the creatures are more comical than scary. (Great tension and atmosphere in the first half).

Howl: A pretty good English Werewolf film! Horror on the midnight express as it breaks down in the middle of a forest. The driver goes to investigate but is swiftly devoured by a Werewolf. The rest of the crew and passengers then attempt to survive the onslaught of the creatures.People are dragged through windows, after being bitten an old woman turns into a Werewolf. Blood, guts, limbs are thrown about. The Werewolves are more human-like in this case but having wolves teeth and triple jointed legs. In the early stages of transformation they look more like Zombies.Directed by Paul Hyett known mostly for his special make up effects on Doomsday, The Children and The Descent. Definitely one to see. 8/10

I should have known it would turn out to be a lousy film when they killed off Sean Pertwee in act one, without giving him a single line of dialogue. How do you put the star of Dog Soldiers in a werewolf film and dispose of him like that? I have a theory: they didn't have the money to actually pay him to play a proper role and they just wanted his name for the DVD cover to try and sell it.That's pretty naughty, and unnecessary. Instead of tricking the audience they should have got someone to fix their stupid script. That would have worked better.You see, this film started well, and it really had promise. The cinematography was adequate. It gave the film a dreamlike, spooky feel, which I liked a lot. The lead character was likable. The set was pretty basic, but persuasive, and perfect for the plot. Then the monster appeared and seemed scary enough. There even came a nice twist: they actually kill the monster early in act two. That's pretty original. And no, it does not come back to life. It is really dead.But it is at this point that whoever wrote the script ran out of ideas, and bad, boring, and irritating clichés followed one after another. Also, the tone was shattered and the audience became confused as to where the film was going. As it turned out, it was not going anywhere. The third act confused us even more instead of wrapping things up in a satisfying way.There is some pointless and badly done character development, a lot of confusing actions undertaken by the protagonists, the introduction of new monsters, which didn't work well at all, the unbelievably irritating cliché whereby a bitten person transforms into a werewolf while everyone remains in denial about what's happening to that person even as it starts to growl and grow monster teeth... I was hoping the film would be intelligent enough to at least treat these clichés with irony. Alas, it did not happen. There is also a 'bad guy' who is as weak a character as all the others, and doesn't really do anything. And as for the protagonist, who everyone expects to undergo the obvious arc from a cowardly loser to a tough guy in control of his life... It doesn't really happen, and he ends up dead.I really thought this film would make up for the lack of budget with some intelligent and innovative plot twists. Unfortunately, it derailed early in act two and kept getting worse and worse until the very last scene. It boggles the mind, really, because any decent scriptwriter would have written a better script. I would have done it for less money than they paid Pertwee to show up in a single scene.

I wanted to really love this movie, from other reviews I'd read, it seemed like I would. But alas, I didn't. However, nor did I hate it. The setting was creepy - you can't get better than an English forest for a werewolf setting, but the filmmakers didn't utilize it as much as they could have, probably due to budgetary and scheduling constraints - it's tough and time consuming to do too many setups in a forest (I've been there and done that, so I can talk from experience). I also think they spent too much time on the bickering passengers. I understand that they were trying to develop characters and create tension, but in the end, the tension should have been derived more from the attacking creatures. The in-fighting of the passengers just got annoying in the end. After all, we know most of these people were just meat for the beast so who cares that much about them? And really, if this happened in reality, I think folks would very quickly realize that something supernatural was happening and get serious. The last thing that bothered me was, although the creatures were cool and horrifying, they did not look so much like werewolves except for their feet. They resembled a cross between Nosferatu and a Chupacabra. And I think that if you're making a werewolf picture, your monsters should be traditional. All in all though, I'm glad I've got this in my collection.