Lycan Colony (2005) Rob Roy.
'A werewolf in cheap's clothing'
A disgraced dipso surgeon reluctantly moves his unhappy family to the backwoods of Podunk USA, discovering that the clannish inhabitants are all werewolves! While the odds of anyone finding an entire town populated by lycanthropes are astronomically high, making an implausibly inept film that proves hilariously watchable is simply beyond all reckoning! The rudimentary acting, conspicuously D.I.Y practical FX, Amiga computer graphics, and stupefying dialogue, are all somehow magically transformed by lunar idiosyncrasies into bad movie nirvana! Even as you are watching Lycan Colony, you still cannot quite believe what you are seeing, this is one of the rarest Z-Movies wherein you can not only witness patent evidence of Ed Wood's legend, one senses that his indomitable spirit is somehow guiding helmsman Rob Roy at this noble work! Thrillingly, at no point during Lycan Colony is there any hope of suspending disbelief, it is the absolute incongruity of almost everything you witness that generates true WTF supremacy!
If you began with the lofty psychotronic majesty of Howling II, and then descended precipitously into the ruinous slime at the bottom of the bargain bin, you might unearth the mouldering, protoplasmic goo that provided the active elements that begot Lycan Colony. I can readily handle the film's lunatic premise, yet the very idea that pop was at anytime a reputable surgeon is, for me, one step beyond the Twilight Zone, this galloping goof would have trouble winning a round of pinochle against a pickled fetus. Even as a card-carrying atheist, I can't believe that there isn't somehow a higher power at work turning something so howlingly absurd as Lycan Colony into Z-Movie gold, water into wine is tater tots in comparison. If ya' don't adore Lycan Colony as much as I do, there is simply no hope at all left for humanity. As a postscript, we demonstratively need Lycan Colony products, a super-plush Lycanthrope onesie with crimson-glow eyes, and photorealistic abs is a winning stocking filler!









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