What does a Romanian-Canadian made-for-tv movie look like? It's similar to anything you might see on the Hallmark or Disney Channel, slow paced and wholesome, but with slightly more transsexuals and full frontal nudity (male and female).
Note: this film features Tim Curry's swagger.
He plays a freakshow owner, and his main act is The Wolf Girl, an ordinary, uncomfortable teenage girl who happens to be very hairy. Some late-90s bullies give her a hard time, but luckily, and unluckily for her (tragic irony), she's Wolf Girl, and becomes even more so as events unfold.
This film has the tone of an afterschool special or Lifetime original movie, but with wolf girl boobs, mulitple male genitalia, and gruesome, bloody murders. It first struck me as subversive, but then I realized I'm just American.
It also treads that uncomfortable line between celebrating and marginalizing those who are different. As freakshows are wont to do. Take the scene where late-90s nerdy boy with cool hair (me) peeks in on an armless man making love to a woman, only to realize he's been spotted by a woman with no arms or legs, who's in a hammock.
Strange, and strangely wholesome. There's a moral to the story about honoring who you are. Heartwarming characters. There's a great Ani DiFranco song for the credits. And Tim Curry is in it.
I give it a solid 6.75 on the unexpected male nudity meter. Worth watching.
Note: this film features Tim Curry's swagger.
He plays a freakshow owner, and his main act is The Wolf Girl, an ordinary, uncomfortable teenage girl who happens to be very hairy. Some late-90s bullies give her a hard time, but luckily, and unluckily for her (tragic irony), she's Wolf Girl, and becomes even more so as events unfold.
This film has the tone of an afterschool special or Lifetime original movie, but with wolf girl boobs, mulitple male genitalia, and gruesome, bloody murders. It first struck me as subversive, but then I realized I'm just American.
It also treads that uncomfortable line between celebrating and marginalizing those who are different. As freakshows are wont to do. Take the scene where late-90s nerdy boy with cool hair (me) peeks in on an armless man making love to a woman, only to realize he's been spotted by a woman with no arms or legs, who's in a hammock.
Strange, and strangely wholesome. There's a moral to the story about honoring who you are. Heartwarming characters. There's a great Ani DiFranco song for the credits. And Tim Curry is in it.
I give it a solid 6.75 on the unexpected male nudity meter. Worth watching.