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2006 · horror · comedy

Big Bad Wolf

Directed by Lance W. Dreesen1h 35m2006
ElsewhereIMDb5.23k
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, extreme horror / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In Cameron, a group of hunters is attacked by a wild animal, and Charlie Cowley survives, but sees his brother Scott dying. Seven years later, his teenage nephew Derek Cowley steals the key of his stepfather's cabin in the isolated Fire Road 13, and travels with four classmates and his friend Sam to spend the weekend having a party with booze and sex. However, they are attacked by a Beast that kills his friends in a sadistic way. Sam and Derek survive, and they suspect that his stepfather, Mitchell Toblat, is a werewolf. When Charlie meets Derek and Sam, they decide to collect evidence to prove that Mitchell is the Beast and kill him, but Mitchell discovers their plot and chases the trio.

Our read · Big Bad Wolf (2006) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive horror · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a gory, funny werewolf horror with teen cabin party chaos.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftera rollercoastergrips by minute 15attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorenudityexplicit sex

Skip it tonightYou dislike gore, nudity or silly talking werewolves.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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