Skinwalkers Release
Date: August 10, 2007 Studio: Lionsgate, After Dark Films Director: Jim Isaac Genre: Action, Horror MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of
violence and action, some sexual material and language) Official Website:
Skinwalkersthemovie.com
Plot Summary:
"Skinwalkers" is a horror action film about a
12-year-old boy who suddenly finds himself at the center of a battle between two
warring groups of werewolves. One group of werewolves is sworn to protect him,
the other group is trying to kill him -- and the young boy's mother has to find
out why her son is at the center of the conflict before time runs out.
EN 5 Second Review:
Skinwalkers gives an interesting modern take on the Werewolf, but that
does not make it a good movie. We will wait for the DVD
This
Canadian-made action drama sparks an old-fashioned B-movie
charge Frank Levice: Film Journal
International
The second PG-13 werewolf movie this year demonstrates how
both the cinematic form and the folkloric myth are as malleable as the
lupine shape-shifters they portray. Blood and Chocolate was a
dreamy teenage girl's romantic European fantasy. Skinwalkers is a
pubescent boy's high-octane shoot-’em-up...more
Skinwalkers
plays more like '70s drive-in fare than a monster mash
of recent vintage Joe Leydon: Variety
Plot is a kinda-sorta coming-of-age story, focused on a
12-year-old boy who's the son of a guy who moonlighted as a
werewolf and a woman was unaware of her husband's lupine
tendencies. Because of his mixed bloodlines, young Timothy
(Matthew Knight) is poised to fulfill an ancient prophecy by
somehow providing a cure for lycanthropy once he turns 13...more
Release
Date: August 10, 2007
EN 5 Second Review:
This
Canadian-