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Skinwalkers
After Dark Films

Skinwalkers reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 33 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.2 out of 10
based on 11 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some sexual material and language

Starring Jason Behr, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, Kim Coates, Natassia Malthe, Matthew Knight, Sarah Carter, and Tom Jackson

A young boy named Timothy will assume his birthright on his 13 birthday. On that day, the family that has raised him and protected him all his life with reveal that they are werewolves. The boy is integral to their survival and they will stop at nothing to keep him safe. Which means they will have to fight the band of evil werewolves that seek Timothy only to destroy him.


GENRE(S): Horror  
WRITTEN BY: James DeMonaco
Todd Harthan
James Roday
 
DIRECTED BY: James Isaac  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: November 27, 2007 
Theatrical: August 10, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 110 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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67
The Onion (A.V. Club) Steven Hyden
While it isn't particularly scary or suspenseful, it's fun and surprisingly breezy compared with its big-budget brethren.
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50
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Adds little to the annals of werewolf lore. But it's briskly paced and features a couple of clever twists on genre conventions.
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50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson
A Canadian-made werewolf thriller, Skinwalkers occasionally rises above its station as a standard-issue horror flick to deliver some enjoyably cheeseball thrills.
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40
LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
The only thing more boring than a vampire with moral issues about biting people in the neck is a werewolf who’d rather become fully human than howl at the moon once a month.
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40
Variety Joe Leydon
Plays more like '70s drive-in fare than a monster mash of recent vintage.
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40
Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen
There's a lot that remains unclear about the powers and abilities of the creatures in Skinwalkers, largely robbing the film of tension as events transpire in a slapdash, haphazard manner.
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38
ReelViews James Berardinelli
It stands alongside this year's other werewolf disaster, "Blood and Chocolate," in illustrating why the moon should set on the werewolf movie.
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38
Boston Globe Ty Burr
Watching the movie is a little like picking up issue #42 of a comic book after you've skipped the first 41: There's an entire back story mythos hovering in the background like a phantom limb.
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30
The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
A thoroughly undistinguished addition to a genre that probably reached its peak a quarter-century ago with "An American Werewolf in London."
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20
The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
Yawningly directed by Jim Isaac, Skinwalkers is a slavering mess that buries its clunky addiction metaphor beneath a welter of genre clichés, all delivered in extra-slow motion.
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11
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Shapeshifters-lite. Fangs but no fangs.
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