This Underrated Horror Comedy Sets The Bar For Video Game Movies
Film adaptations have been par for the course since movies started being made. While book adaptations are still the most popular being made, anything can provide the right inspiration for a film. Besides books, one of the most common inspirations seems to be video games.
The first English language live-action film based on a video game was 1993's Super Mario Bros. This film has now gone down in infamy for being iconically bad, and sadly that seems to be the case for a lot of these video game adaptations. Scrolling through a list of them, it's rare for many to have a Rotten Tomatoes score above 50%. Some recent films have some good scores like Detective Pikachu with a 68% and Sonic the Hedgehog with 63%. However, it's a recent horror-comedy that got only a quiet release which holds a score to blow all the others out of the water.
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Werewolves Within was released in the summer of 2021 and serves as an adaptation of the video game of the same name. It's a multiplayer VR game from Ubisoft set in a medieval town where a werewolf is on the loose. The player is among the townspeople and the gameplay models the Mafia (which is sometimes even called Werewolf) party game in an attempt to figure out who is in disguise as the secret monster. There are certain changes between the movie and game, but the basic premise is there, and the whodunit style is very present.
The setting of the 2021 film is not a medieval town. Instead, it's a small town named Beaverfield where everyone knows everyone. They're also currently divided by a proposed pipeline, making their relationships a little more tense than normal. The main character is a park ranger named Finn, who is new in town.
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