Werewolf
|There are tense faces around the table on games night round at Hayley and Dylan’s flat, with differences over the interpretation of the rules threatening to ignite into arguments, Hayley instead suggesting that instead a round of Werewolf might be more congenial, Kenneth aptly fitting the bill as narrator.
Taking place in the quaint and unassuming village of Miller’s Hollow, Dylan, Hayley, Susie, Noah, Rose and Jamie are cast as the inhabitants going about their daily lives until one of their number goes missing overnight, with accusations the next morning prompting the possible lynching of their chosen suspect – only a game until the lights flicker and Jamie is found to be absent.
Written by David Ellis, inspired by the game Werewolves Within, and directed with gusto by Markus Meedt, Werewolf is a verbose comedy horror starring Ellis, Alice Etches, Shamia Chalabi, Ashley Gerlach, Katie Redford and James Murfitt as the fractious friends and Ballad of the Skull Fairy’s Will Seaward as Kenneth, storyteller, provocateur and both life and death of the party.
Turning on each other with disturbing rapidity and pointing fingers on scant evidence (“That’s exactly what a werewolf would say!”), the tone is playful but the stakes are weighty, Noah objecting to the suggestion of lynching on principal and the lingering question of precisely where Jamie has vanished to, Werewolf as rare as a wild lycanthrope in that it is a sharp short of the full moon which could easily have lingered longer.
Werewolf will be streaming on the Arrow platform from Friday 25th October