By Stephen Pytak This an O.K. soft-core flick with some hot girls, a VERY cool poster and a double DVD release that comes with a making-of booklet. If you're looking for a special-effects extravaganza with naked werewolves, watch Joe Dante's The Howling (1981). If you dig Misty Mundae and Anoushka, this is one werewolf flick you can't afford to miss. What made me curious about it was the poster. It's really, really nice. It shows Mundae's character wolfing out in front of Big Ben. (The scene doesn't happen in the movie, but it's nice anyway. ) Impressed, I didn't care if this film was good, bad or what. I just had to see it.  | | Art for the video release of An Erotic Werewolf in London (2007). Copyright by Seduction Cinema. |
The film was shot in 2001, according to Director William Hellfire on the commentary track. It was released in the UK in 2006 with Anoushka as the headliner, according to IMDB.com Here in the States, the DVD came out on June 28, 2008. I picked up my copy at the Seduction Cinema table at Chiller Theatre in Parsippany, N.J. on May 3, 2008. I even got to meet Misty. I told her how impressed I was by the poster art by Vince Evans. But that didn't seem to really faze her. Anyway, the story is pretty simple, but it's not the worst plot in the world. A couple of nympho lesbians who own a bar, Mundae and LaRocca, make out. Then a stranger with a European accent, Anoushka, comes to the door. Two minutes later, she and Mundae get down to business on the couch. This is kinda how this picture flows. Thank God the girls are lovely. During this round, Anoushka turns into a hairy beast and bites Mundae on the left arm. That confused the heck out of me. Why not the neck? The breast? Or some other erogenous zone? I didn't expect much from the make-up effects. This is super-low budget and they didn't have someone like Rob Bottin around. I mean, Sybil Danning's werewolf make-up in Howling II (1985) was better. This can't even touch Paul Naschy's hair-face Waldemar Daninsky. But, make-up man Michael R. Thomas does what he can, and it's not the worst. It works O.K. I guess. Like films in the '60s and '70s, the poster completes the image for us. Hellfire said he was inspired by Werewolf Woman (1976), and kind of a less-is-more approach. I saw this flick recently. It's O.K. Kinda crazy. Can't say I recommend it. As Erotic Werewolf continues, Anoushka splits, then contacts a newspaper reporter (Zoe Moonshine) to tell her story. The scenes in the newspaper office are of the "so bad it's good" variety. Come to think of it, so are the scenes where Mundae's in the hospital. While Anouska tells her story about stalking young women, Mundae recovers and goes all Lon Chaney Jr. on LaRocca leading us to an explosive finale. Given what little she has to work with in Erotic Werewolf, Mundae does O.K. as far as acting goes. But judging by a trailer on this disc for Shock-O-Rama's "Chantal," she's got more to offer. She's really good at black humor, using humor or facial movements in reaction to the macabre and the strange. I'd like to know what her best acting performance was.
Since 1998, she starred in over 60 productions -- with titles like Witchbabe: The Erotic Witch Project 3 (2001) and Duck! The Carbine High Massacre (2000) in which she played "Bible Girl." She's also a writer, director, producer and composer. While checking her profile on IMDB, I noticed she starred in a Masters of Horror episode, Sick Girl, directed by Lucky McGee. I thought that one was pretty good. In it, she went by "Erin Brown." She played a character named "Misty (I wonder if that's an homage)." And she starred opposite Angela Bettis. Both gave pretty decent performances. Born in 1979 in Illinois, Mundae's real name is Erin DeWright, according to the site. Now and then, I clicked over to the commentary track. Hellfire and Producer Michael Raso share some interesting production stories, including one about a biker bar in Clifton, N.J. where they shot the opening scene. During a scene in the hospital, where Mundae is getting it on with some nurse, Hellfire says one of his inspirations for the film came from things he learned from a "dime-store book on psycho-sexual disorders." This is pretty interesting. "One is Lycanthropy. There's this story about this woman and how she would walk upright on her toes and masturbate constantly and everything. And I incorporated that into the idea of what a werewolf might be, a cross between a psychological disorder and our fairy-tale of sprouting fur and fangs," Hellfire said. Serious fans of this film NEED that book. Guess you can contact Hellfire for more information on that title. Also on Disc 1 is an interview with LaRocca. This is priceless. She talks about how she got into the porn business. Believe it or not, all she did was go to a Chiller Theatre con and hook up with Hellfire and Mundae. Talk about a Cinderella story. I'd like to mention the8-page, full-color booklet, "Lesbian Lycanthropes on the Loose." It includes a pretty thorough history of the film by Ed Grant, Media Funhouse host and historian. Also here are two alternative posters for the film, which just aren't as good as the one on the DVD cover by Vince Evans. Disc 2 features a short film called "Night of the Groping Dead," a lot of hand-held nonsense. LaRocca goes to a laundromat and gets turned on while watching her clothes spin in the washer. Eventually a zombie comes around and tries to make an impression on her with a broom handle. From there on, it gets really weird. This is for LaRocca completists only. Also on this disc is Misty's Trailer Vault, which features 11 previews, including a trailer for her 2003 remake of a 1968 X-rated movie called Lustful Addiction, which she penned and directed.
RATING (On a scale of 1 to 5): 4
 | | Stephen Pytak got to meet actress Misty Mundae at a Chiller Theatre con in New Jersey in May 2008. Photo by Michael A. Pytak. |
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