Canada is very good at producing horror films, especially campy horror films. WolfCop supplies plenty of camp and horror.
Lou Garou (Leo Fafard) is an undistinguished cop in a small town. Lou drinks a lot, is always late for work, and isn't good at solving crimes. Lou gets called on a case in the middle of the woods.
He doesn't remember too much from that night. Lou wakes up the next day with a decent beard and little memory from the previous night. We learn over time that Lou is WolfCop by night and his regular self by day.
The town of Woodhaven is having a mayoral race. The annual Drunk and Shoot festival is coming up. A solar eclipse is on the way.
Tina (Amy Matysio) is as good of a cop as Lou is a bad cop. Willie (Jonathan Cherry) is the only one who seems to understand what is happening to Lou aka WolfCop. Jessica (Sarah Lind) runs the local bar where Lou is a frequent customer.
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Turning into a wolf makes Lou a lot better cop as WolfCop than a human cop. That is good in battling robberies committed by people wearing piggies masks.
WolfCop never takes itself seriously. Plenty of blood and gore and humour. Several references are made to Liquor Donuts, something that couldn't exist in real Canada.
Using a relatively unknown cast and shooting in Regina and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan gives WolfCop a better more actuality missing from Ontario-based campy horror films. This isn't a documentary but you can find escaping into this world a lot easier than most similar films.
The original film came out in 2014. Another WolfCop, a sequel, came out in 2017.
WolfCop is available in the United States on Hulu.
video credit: YouTube/RLJE Films
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