Bewere (2019) - Short Horror Film Review

Bewere is a short twelve minute horror that was directed by J. Budro Partida and written by Joy Y. Lin (99 Bottles of Beer). As the title slightly implies, this is about werewolves for are one of my least favourite movie monsters. This short wasn't bad, not taking itself too seriously, while putting some answers to questions about werewolves that I hadn't ever considered before.

Rich college kid Aaron (Andrew P. Logan) has managed to track down a man purporting to be a werewolf, a man named Oz (Joseph Fotinos). He offers him a substantial amount of cash for Oz to turn him into one himself. Once he is turned however, Aaron tells the man he has no intention of paying him and heads off, and it isn't long before Aaron has also turned his best friend, Drew (Ray Roberts II). In this cautionary tale however it may have been a good idea to have honoured his deal, as this may have resulted in Oz revealing some pretty essential information to the new werewolf and his pal.

While twelve minutes in length it is only around nine minutes of actual film excluding the credits, though is a quick after credit sequence. The cast of three hold this together well, though it is the character of Oz who is the essential one, and the person who was the more fleshed out of the three. The werewolves here are people who literally turn into wolves and so during that whole sequence it is actual wolves and other animals being shown, rather than people in hairy costumes. There was always something a little goofy about the film and this results in a third act which was both really quite gross as well as amusing. I can't really say much more for fear of spoilers, but I enjoyed where this ended up going, even if it was very messy, not one to watch while eating that's for sure!

I may not be a fan of werewolf movies but a short one like this I was perfectly fine with. It did something different to any other werewolf film I have personally seen, and best of all it's free to watch. Bewere premiered on the Dark Matters' YouTube channel on June 17th.

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