Another WolfCop
It’s another moonlight shift for Lou “WolfCop” Garou in the backwater town of Woodhaven, hot in pursuit of a heavily armed Santa Claus and his little ski-masked helpers who are utterly unprepared for the long hairy arm of the law on their tail, the crew dismembered and leaving a cleanup operation for Sheriff Tina Walsh.
Her attempts to keep gossip under control hampered by the official WolfCop merchandise on sale at Liquor Donuts and numerous witnesses including her own squad who have seen him in action, it is Lou she must trust when it becomes apparent that a new threat is emerging, evil billionaire industrialist Sydney Swallows using the cheap labour at the Darkstar Brewery as human incubators for the reptilian “shifters” who originally cursed Lou.
Released three years after WolfCop was unleashed and again written and directed by Lowell Dean, Another WolfCop was unleashed in July 2017 and sees Leo Fafard and Amy Matysio return as Lou and Tina alongside Jonathan Cherry as Willie Higgins, found to be alive after the duplicate replacement created by the shifters was destroyed, now joined by Murdoch Mysteries’ Yannick Bisson as Swallows and Clerks III’s Kevin Smith as Mayor Bubba Rich.
The title referring not only to the fact that the film is a sequel offering a second serving of the same bloody shenanigans, howling craziness and entirely inappropriate behaviour, Another WolfCop also expands the roster of lycanthropes, Lou not the only person in town suffering from full moon fever with Willie’s younger but more responsible sister Kat (Sara Miller) boasting some impressive attributes along with her claws and surprisingly hairy back.
The conspicuously low budget no impediment to the fun, with Chowboys’ Conor Sweeney, Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy showing up in a short-lived but messy supporting role, the targets are lowbrow but the suspects are pursued with momentum and diligence, and the film is not simply a retread of the first despite being linked through the ongoing plotline, moving from Weird West and folklore to mutant alien incursions.
More manic than its littermate and embracing its heritage by exploring pastimes of the Canadian provinces beyond drinking cheap beer with a bloody turn in the ice hockey arena against a masked army of Swallows’ creation, unsurprisingly Another WolfCop is no more sophisticated than the first but tears through a taut and vulgar eighty-two minutes before making the as-yet unrealised promise of a third bark at the moon.
Another WolfCop is available on Shudder now
