My Review Of “Piranha-Man VS Werewolf-Man”

Directed by Dorian Knight and Steve Goldenberg and is a film that attempts to celebrate everything we love about the classic monster movies of the 50’s. It is a super low budget flick that pits costume creature against costume creature. The rivalry between the fish-like Piranha Man and the canine Wolf Man is one of brutal murder, familial kidnappings, stalking, and incest! When the decades old fight begins to effect the life of investigative journalist Lexi Glass, she finds that sometimes you need to become the story in order to report the story. She discovers the battle of a lifetime along with the horrible secret of her family's past!

Even though this is a really low budget film with obvious “suit” bound monsters and screams cheese-fest the movie could have been so much more – could have but didn’t. The story was actually a pretty cool concept that has moments when everything seems to be going right. Yet the film takes a dramatically outlandish turn with strange direction and plot twists that just manage to complicate and frustrate the simplicity of the film’s storyline. There were clever moments of humor and well crafted death scenes that mask the low level of special effects used and the obvious use of rubber masks and costume monsters. It could have been a perfectly cheesy yet entertaining flick. Unfortunately half way through the film it takes a wrong turn into complete absurdity filled with over thought character details and plot twists. Not to mention the whole mystical dream guide sequence that just (even for a film called Piranha-Man VS Werewolf-Man) seems a bit asinine. I didn’t expect much going into this film but the initial acting and story seemed tacky yet acceptable so I almost began to enjoy the low budget fill of the whole thing until it hit that deeper dramatic and pointless part with unnecessary backstory that fell flat. It would have worked better with just one director with one simple vision adequately  executed instead of the mess that this film became. I have to say the film just became to hard to watch and I was thankful when it was over.  : (

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