7Roulette - FULL ECLIPSE

I love werewolf movies, and this is by far the worst one I've ever seen. A group of police officers dose themselves with a tonic that gives them super animalistic strength to defend the city streets from hardened criminals. Being wolf-like gives them the upper hand, in that they are impervious to bullets and maim from their opponents, and can take anyone down with amplified force.

They wear helmets in battle that are reminiscent of Magneto's and shoot out claws from their knuckles much like Wolverine. Needless to say, the line to X-Men is a direct one. The transformations are silly, but the acting is worse. Our evil bad guy is dull and unassuming. In the end, he reveals himself to be a monstrous beast, but the early 90s CGI is laughable, even for HBO. The best part of watching it was being with Paul, and making jokes throughout. But that's the point, right? F

- Babes

Vampires and Frankensteins and Werewolves were all the rage again in the first half of the 1990s, and I was there for it as much as Fangoria Magazine was - HBO's Full Eclipse made the cover back in '93, and I'm sure 10-year-old me wasn't the only person who thought they were selling a live action X-Men film. Of course, the filmmakers admit (in the article of that very Fango) that their Werewolf Cop Movie was as close as they could get to adapting the Marvel property, and upon watching it I certainly found it to be closer to a goofy comic book than a Horror Action movie. 

I used to catch glimpses of it late at night back when it came out, always hoping to catch costar Patsy Kensit in various stages of undress. Between the magazine coverage and heavy HBO rotation the premise was easily figured out: crimefighting werewolves. Watching it end to end, I found they really don't scratch beneath that surface too much; there's a conflict I don't care about, a backstory I don't understand, and a resolution that feels rushed. It's super stylish (director Anthony Hickcox made this the year after he did Hellraiser III) but it's nowhere near as sexy, scary, exciting, or weird as it should have been. D+

- Paul