Leofwine_draca BLOOD MOON is a tiresome, zero budget, western/horror combo in which a bunch of the usual disparate characters are holed up in an old western town where they find themselves assailed by barely-glimpsed werewolves. Bizarrely, although this film is set in the Old West with some imported American stars (like Corey Johnson), it's actually a British movie filmed on a re-enactment set.Not that we see much of the set, or anything if I'm honest. BLOOD MOON is one of those films that's almost entirely shot in the dark to hide the deficiencies of the budget. The werewolves are barely glimpsed throughout the movie so if you're looking for werewolf action you'll invariably be disappointed. Giving the directorial chores to a guy who has previously made stuff like MOVIE MISTAKES UNCOVERED and THE LEGEND OF DICK AND DOM wasn't necessarily the best idea as the people who wrote and made this seem to have little understanding of what makes either the western or the horror genres tick as BLOOD MOON is a failure in both.The characters are below par and uninteresting and the set-up situations are entirely predictable with characters in-fighting before being forced to work together against a greater evil. It really does say something when the DVD cover is about ten times better than the film itself.

FlashCallahan The old west gets hairy when a town is overtaken by skinwalkers, or as we all like to call them, werewolves. Knowing they've got to combine forces if they want to survive the night, the passengers of a stagecoach unite with a heroic gunslinger and a couple of outlaws to battle the beastly enemy under the blood red moon......It appears lately that any high concept film, trying to mix genres together, rarely gets it right, and they are usually funded by some small British film company. Some, on the rare occasion, get it right, like cockneys Vs Zombies.But then there's a film called Navy Seals Vs Zombies........make of that what you will.But like those films, where they come up with the title and work from there, the premise here is pretty sound, even if it does sound like Tarantino's forthcoming Hateful Eight, sans Lycanthrope.And this is where the film falters. I can imagine while Tarantino's protagonists/Antagonists are holed up together, they will have rich and complex characterisation, and have some wonderful dialogue to boot.Here, it's pretty mundane, we have the bad guys telling everyone else to shut up after they get a bit chippy with one another, and there's occasional flirting from the bar owner. Oh and every once in a while, the one you recognise from other films spits, and he spits a lot.And this happens for the whole of the second act, and the majority of the third, until we finally get to see what we've been eating to see for the whole movie, and as predicted, it's a bit of a let down.There is some sub-plot involving another party, and one is a bit mysterious, but it detracts from the 'action' in the bar.And it all finishes with the bloke from Billy Elliot saying that you wouldn't have heard where he came from and giving the whole film a sort of Van Helsing vibe, and sorts of promises the beginning of a franchise, which could improve if their are vampires involved.Which sounds a lot more promising than Traffic Wardens vs Zombies.....

pipelinerer Well I was happy to sit back tonight excited about getting two movies wrapped up in one, I love a good Western & I love a good werewolf movie. Two birds with one stone right? This movie was a bit slow on the start & I was close to turning it off, especially with all the in depth "Slow dragging" chattering going on in the bar, but my other half is like me & loves Vamp's, Zombies, werewolves & Westerns.. So she said give it a minute more. We knew the director was letting us get to know the characters, although I thought that they spent a little to much time on that side of the story considering this was involving werewolves & we knew that the actors would not be excepting any Oscar's.When the action started after the moon rose it did get a bit better & get a bit more interesting. Downfall was it was a bit dark & they didn't have a lot of the werewolf on the screen, reminded me of the old movies that mostly showed shadows moving here & there, and having you squint to try & make out what you thought you may have or may not have seen or what your wanting to see. Not a big deal since the music score was right & timing was right when it did appear. My whole take on this film is if you like a fair B-Movie with Cowboys, Outlaws, Werewolves & it's a rainy Saturday, get some popcorn, relax but keep in mind this is just that & you will enjoy this movie. I would say it's a high 3 or 4. Watchable again? Yes

dcarsonhagy "Blood Moon" is a movie about the legend of the Native American skinwalker. This interested me because of the setting: the American Old West complete with bank robbers and varmits. Seems a certain town in the middle-of-nowhere-Colorado is losing its population. What is strange is the killings are only happening on-- you guessed it--the night of the blood moon. Methinks thar's a beast in them thar woods, but I digress.This is the second movie I have watched where NOTHING seemed realistic. In fact, this reminded me of a play being performed, albeit a bad play. The opening scene looked so "staged" it actually lacked authenticity. All the actors were stiff and unconvincing. Another reviewer talked about how the lack of using CGI really made the movie convincing. I don't usually disagree, but this movie (and especially the creature) could have used something. And some of the "plot" never made sense.This version was unrated for violence and language.