Synopsis
The hunt is on
When deadly attacks from a nearby forest beset a secluded retirement community, it is up to a blind army veteran to discover what the residents are hiding.
2014 Directed by Adrián García Bogliano
When deadly attacks from a nearby forest beset a secluded retirement community, it is up to a blind army veteran to discover what the residents are hiding.
Larry Fessenden Andrea Quiroz Hérnandez Brent Kunkle Greg Newman Zak Zeman Lex Ortega Luis Flores Joel Alonso
레이트 페이시스 : 늑대의 저주, Late Phases: Night of the Lone Wolf, Night of the Wolf: Late Phases, Η νύχτα του τυφλού λύκου, Поздние фазы, Późne fazy człowieczeństwa, Night of the Wolf, 饿狼传说:满月杀手, 惡狼纏身
Werewolf film that kicks off with a bang as a blind Vietnam War veteran and his dog are attacked by some kind of massive dog. From there, we move onto a plot involving the veteran trying to work out who the werewolf is before its next attack phase during the full moon. I'll be honest; this wasn't really what I was expecting! The bulk of the movie is essentially a character study and the whole werewolf thing gets lost for a good while under various other subplots (some of which don't actually go anywhere). How much you like this film will largely depend on how much you like the lead character. He is well drawn and having a blind man…
HORRORx52 (2022)
40/52
9. 2010s
I’m always on the hunt for well done werewolf movies as they’re my favorite horror creature. The issue with them is that there aren’t that many movies in the grand scheme of things, and a lot of them can be duds. This was not the case with Late Phases. Some werewolf movies focus on the actual werewolves, others on the visceral violence caused by them, but this movie is driven solely by its lead character. Our protagonist is Ambrose, a blind veteran who isn’t afraid to speak his mind or really give any fucks. Him being blind provided any interesting dynamic in that normally the character will sometimes see the horrific monster before the audience…
For me, Nick Damici first jumped off the screen as bad-ass vampire slayer ‘Mister’ in Stakeland, but up until now, it’s his performance as the affable slugger ‘Clutch’ in Mulberry Street that always sticks in my mind. His performance here is positioned somewhere between those two characters and again, he turns in another commanding performance, managing to convey a great deal, whilst saying very little. Here he plays Ambrose, a grumpy, blind war vet who arrives at a gated retirement community with his dog Shadow to live out his twilight time in relative comfort. As soon as he moves in though there's a string of violent break-ins and it quickly becomes clear that joint pain and angina aren't the only…
"That's a big cross for a dog."
"It was a big dog."
In the final phases of your life all sorts of bullshit happens. Old warriors face their swords deflating. Hard men fade like sunsets, staring at the world with disappointment, or in Ambrose McKinley's case, they go blind. Crescent Bay Blues.
The retirement community microcosm. The cast here is spectacular across the board. Almost to shocking levels. Nick Damici is so fucking good in this it could've just been about old folks. His performance is 5 stars easy in a 3 1/2 star film. It's why I watch movies. This guy is acting his ass off with screen presence to spare.
Sacrifice and the full moon preparation in war…
Hooptober VIII, Ch. 9
Though I've always believed that werewolf movies should be easy to pull off, not that the special effects and makeup aren't ostensibly challenging but the story and style and tonal ingredients don't seem at all high maintenance, the fact is they usually turn out to be a total letdown (and not just because "The Howling" spawned one of history's worst franchises [no disrespect to the wild and weird part III "The Marsupials"]). So "Late Phases" being at all credible, entertaining, nicely shot and featuring a badass original lead character is a big happy surprise.
Comparisons abound to "Bubba Ho-Tep" as both are about an elderly person at a senior home rallying to face off against a…
This one starts off with a bang. A blind Vietnam vet widower is placed in a retirement community and on his first night is attacked by a werewolf (not a spoiler, the werewolf is showcased quite vividly in this early scene) during a full moon in his new home. He’s a grizzled old soldier though - he survives, immediately identifies what the attacker is, and begins formulating a one-month plan to combat the creature at the next full moon.
Then the movie’s pace drops down several gears. There’s much more human drama here than horror, which makes sense given the veteran and diverse cast. Good, believable performances all around. It’s an hour of character development, relationships and whodunit stuff until the…
"People don't come to places like this to live, they come here to die."
Ambrose McKinley,
United States Army , Retired.
Nick Damici plays blind veteran Ambrose McKinley, after his wife dies his son moves him into a retirement village where some of the residents have died under mysterious circumstances. The local cops blame the deaths on dog attacks but Ambrose thinks something more sinister is at play.......
This is a solid Werewolf with a great lead performance from Damici, playing older than his years, he convincingly pulls of the part as the grumpy blind vet who's fighting to keep his independence. Support comes from the likes of Ethan Embry, Tom Noonan and Tina Louise.
There's some nice special effects…
while i felt like Late Phases is glorious as a love letter to the practical effects/guy in a suit werewolf film of the past, the whole movie itself is constantly just on tip of being great. it's a very small & effective werewolf tale that reminded me on several occasions of Silver Bullet. i can't put my finger on what kept this from fully connecting with me but i feel like director Adrian Garcia Bogliano is a new honest talent in a sea of young horror directors that is otherwise filled with idiot bro dudes. Bogliano is on the verge of making something really fantastic with the genre soon and Late Phases is nothing to blow off just yet and definitely deserves at least a watch.
People don't come to places like this to live... they come here to die.
-Ambrose
The last time I saw Nick Damici he was fighting off zombie vampires in Stake Land, a film he wrote himself with friend/director Jim Mickle. See what I like about Damici is that when he wasn't satisfied with the roles he was getting as an actor he decided to write scripts to give himself the roles he wanted.
He acted in all 5 films he wrote and his hard work must have paid off in getting him noticed, because here he is starring in a film he did not write being directed by someone he's never worked with before in one Adrián García Bogliano who's…