Weird Movie Wednesday: My Mom's a Werewolf

Welcome weirdo's for another Weird Movie Wednesday. This week, I thought I would go with a theme, werewolves. It's a severely underrated monster in the horror genre and so I've gone through the archives and found a gem for you. This one was showed to me by my lovely mother and this movie is so hilarious. Not necessarily a horror movie, it's more like a comedy with werewolves and an all around feel good movie. I'm talking about My Mom's a Werewolf. It's classic and such a fun movie to watch with your family.

My Mom's a Werewolf is about a woman who is constantly ignored by her husband, mostly because she is a vegetarian and keeps feeding him rabbit food. He stays out and eats meat behind her back. So one day, while she is out on the town to find a flea collar for the family dog, she meets a handsome stranger in a pair of Ray Bans. He lures her into a trance during a lunch date. Meanwhile, her daughter suspects that her mother is having an affair and, with the help of her horror movie best friend, follow them to her mother's favorite restaurant.. She finds her mother smitten by the strange man across from her. However, the mother snaps out of the trance, leaving the restaurant to head to the pet store. A pet store owned by the tall, dark stranger from the restaurant. Being once again taken by his glowing eyes, the two end up in an intimate situation, leading to the man biting her toe. In pain, she limps out of the pet store, never forgetting the flea collar she came for. All the while, her daughter and her friend saw the whole thing.

She returns home, feeling different. Now craving meat, she prepares a lovely steak for her family and ends the night being more adored by her husband than ever. The daughter isn't being fooled by her mother's new demeanor. She knows something is up and is determined to get to the bottom of it. The next morning, mama werewolf is sporting fangs. Confused and horrified, she rushes to the craziest dentist I've ever seen to have them filed down. They can't be and she's runs out of the office. However, she feels invigorated and heads to the butcher shop to buy some meat, snacking on it raw on the way home. She is turning more and more into a werewolf now and ol' tall, dark, and handsome stops by for a visit and explains what is happening to her and why. He is a werewolf and plans to have a family of wolves with her. She doesn't believe it but her daughter, who has been snooping, figures it out. So, she turns to her horror nut friend for help. In true horror movie fashion, she doesn't believe her until she see's it for herself. When she is finally convinced, the two devise a plan to end her mother's torment, if you can even call it that. The plan includes silver and lots of padding. They have to kill the stranger before the full moon falls. It works, the daughter kills the stranger and saves her mother and all seems well...that is until we find out that there is a loophole in the system and now it is the daughters turn.

A bit long but we managed to get through it. Let's begin with this; John Saxon plays the stranger/werewolf. You know, the dad from A Nightmare On Elm Street? His part is brief but memorable. There's this wonderful line in the movie between the he and the mom where he takes off his shirt to reveal a very hairy chest and she responds with "I bet you smell great in the rain". We say this all the time and it gets me every time. Another bomb of a celebrity in the movie is the lovely and late actress who played Mrs. Krabapple in The Simpsons, Marcia Wallace. She plays a hairdresser and is silly, I can't even explain. She is so funny. Plus, I myself am a Hairdresser and how she acts in the movie feels like days I've had in the salon, but I digress. I love the mom character too, by the way. She is kind of awkward and funny, not really knowing how to deal with what is happening to her, all the while trying maintain her Polly Perfect persona. It's truly funny.

The next thing I want to talk about is the friend character. She is just like me, horror obsessed. My mom was telling me as were watching it that she had known before I was born that she was gonna have a daughter like this girl in the movie, she would have prepared. My mom is a horror nut too, mind you, so she wouldn't have had to prepare that much. She reads Fangoria, watches all the slashers. and attends horror cons...HELLO, that is so me. But there is one scene in this movie that reeks of Fright Night. It is when the daughter goes to the friend to ask for help about her mother being a werewolf. She doesn't believe her and laughs it off, just like Evil from Fright Night. Then she gives her a bunch of tips anyways. It's awesome. Then, if that's not enough, they play the Fright Night theme song during a Halloween party scene. I actually love it. It is so cheesy and pays an excellent homage to the horror classic.

This movie is a comedy with a horror twist. Sort of like Saturday the 14th, if you have ever seen that, but less slapstick. It's over the top, which I love. The mom's transformation is awesome and end werewolf product is crazy. The costumes look homemade and over-sized. The end is great and leaves room for a part two, if you are asking me. It's a good one and family friendly for horror fans young and old alike.

Well, that's the end. We've made it another Wednesday.  Let me know if you've seen this one. I love it. it's a staple. If you haven't, then check it out. I don't cost nothing if you go to YouTube and search the title. Let me know what you think, either way. Have a great day and stay spooky.