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There’s an interview with Joe Dante talking about The Howling, one of the better werewolf movies around. In that interview, Dante says that they had to hide the fact that it was a werewolf movie in advertisements because people would have thought it was corny and trite. How times have changed. Werewolf movies are cool when they’re done well, and they are surprisingly ripe to be done as horror comedy. The Wolf of Snow Hollow has embraced all of these facts. It’s not hiding that this is a werewolf movie, and it shouldn’t.
One of the things that most werewolf movies have going for them is that they really turn on the idea of isolation. An American Werewolf in London, putting a lycanthrope into the middle of a big city, is the exception to the rule. Werewolves do better in the middle of nowhere, where anyone can be the monster, but the list of suspects is relatively small.
