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The Wolf of Snow Hollow is a 2020 American comedy horror film about a small Utah town that is seemingly terrorized by a werewolf. It was written and directed by Jim Cummings who also stars along with Riki Lindhome, Chloe East, Jimmy Tatro, and Robert Forster. The film is dedicated to Forster, as it was the last of his career, completed shortly before his death.[4]

The Wolf of Snow Hollow
Official promotional poster
Directed by	Jim Cummings
Written by	Jim Cummings
Produced by	Kathleen Grace Matt Hoklotubbe Michael J. McGarry Natalie Metzger Matt Miller Benjamin Wiessner
Starring	Jim Cummings Riki Lindhome Chloe East Jimmy Tatro Robert Forster
Cinematography	Natalie Kingston
Edited by	Patrick Nelson Barnes R. Brett Thomas
Music by	Ben Lovett
Production companies	Orion Classics New Form Vanishing Angle XYZ Films
Distributed by	United Artists Releasing
Release date	October 9, 2020 (2020-10-09) (United States)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2 million [1]
Box office	$266,963 [2][3]

It was released in limited theaters and on VOD in the United States on October 9, 2020 by United Artists Releasing.[5]

Plot

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PJ Palfrey and his girlfriend Brianne vacation in Snow Hollow, Utah, where PJ gets into a verbal altercation with two local hunters who used a homophobic slur. At their rental house that night, Brianne hears a growl and is attacked by something while PJ is in the shower. He discovers her mangled body, with a paw print in the snow.

John Marshall, a Snow Hollow deputy sheriff struggling with anger management issues and alcoholism, is called away from a tense meeting with his ex-wife Brittany and their daughter Jenna to the murder scene. His father, Sheriff Hadley, and fellow officer Julia Robson have discovered Brianne's corpse, with her genitalia and other body parts missing. Sheriff Hadley worries about having another heart attack. News begins to circulate around the town about a possible "wolfman" among them, though John is adamant that the killing was done by a man not a wolf.

A snowboarding instructor is killed next, in a violent struggle in which one of her arms is torn off, followed by her head. When wolf fur is discovered on her body, rumors about a killer werewolf spread, much to John's annoyance. He gets into a physical altercation with a fellow officer who leaks to the press that the killer could be a wolf. Under stress, John begins drinking again.

While John and Julia drive to work the next morning, someone throws a beer bottle at Robson's car. Paranoid tips from all over the community roll in. Townie Liz Fairchild has a strange encounter with a tall man at a diner, which she reports to the police. Hadley is diagnosed with a heart murmur, and John urges him to seek medical treatment. They argue, with John declaring that Hadley should work from home. Hadley refuses to go for treatment. Later that night, Liz and her three-year-old-daughter are killed by the wolfman.

John, growing increasingly agitated and angry, combs through the town's records in order to determine whether or not the killer has had any personal relationships with the victims, and looks up some werewolf lore. After investigating Liz's workplace, they discover that the man Liz had previously encountered at the restaurant called her workplace asking for her. A curfew is imposed and an active watch for the creature is begun. After another cardiac event, Hadley agrees to retire and seek treatment at John's urging.

Jenna sneaks away in the middle of the night to see her boyfriend, and they are attacked by the wolfman. John answers a neighbor's 911 call and shoots at the creature, but it escapes, killing an officer and wounding Jenna. When John yells at Jenna for breaking curfew, Jenna shouts that his lack of care is the reason why she is going away to college. After visiting Jenna and Hadley in the hospital, John breaks into Jenna's boyfriend's house and attacks him. Meanwhile, Hadley passes away from heart complications at the hospital.

Grieving for his father and frustrated with the case, John is banned from his support group meetings. The body of a man living in a camper outside town is found dead of a heroin overdose and the responding police believe he is the killer due to multiple factors including his height, his odd knife collection, the presence of a pet wolf-dog, and the discovery of a dead body in a woodpile in his backyard which turns out to be that of a missing woman. When the coroner insults John's intelligence and threatens to tell the press about his difficulties in finding the murderer, John deduces that the coroner was responsible for the vandalism of Robson's car, and fires him.

While John is out distributing evidence from the closed case back to its original owners, PJ contacts Robson at the station and tells her that his belongings contained a seam ripper that was not his. Realizing that the ripper is for taxidermy, Robson realizes that Paul Carnury, the town's only taxidermist, must be investigated, just as John stops by Paul's house. Paul seems eager for details of the case, and asks John about his daughter, something he couldn't have known unless he was present when Jenna was attacked. Deducing this as he walks out the door, John returns and asks Paul to stand up to his actual height, revealing himself to be well over 6 feet tall. He slams the door on John and runs. John breaks into the house, discovering a workstation containing Hannah's head. John is stabbed in the stomach by Paul, who runs when he hears sirens after changing into a taxidermied wolf costume. John pursued Paul into the woods, who attacks him, but is shot and incapacitated by Robson. John gets up and shoots Paul repeatedly in the head before collapsing.

Later, John is helping Jenna move into her college dorm along with Robson, who is Snow Hollow's new sheriff. John leaves Jenna condoms for protection. As he walks out of the dorm he passes two men making sexist comments about the gymnasts in the dorm. John stops for a moment before walking away.

Cast

• Jim Cummings as John Marshall
• Riki Lindhome as Detective Julia Robson
• Chloe East as Jenna Marshall
• Jimmy Tatro as PJ Palfrey
• Robert Forster as Sheriff Hadley
• Will Madden as Paul Carnury

Production

Filming took place in Kamas, Utah in March 2019. Producer Matt Miller had known Robert Forster from a previous project, and sent the script to his agent. Director Jim Cummings said he "expected a polite 'no,'" but Forster chose to take the role because he viewed it as "a dramatic movie about a father-son relationship, and complications of aging and health."[6]

Release

In September 2020, Orion Classics acquired distribution rights to the film.[4][7][8]

During the escalation of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the film had a limited theatrical release on October 9, 2020 by United Artists Releasing[9][10][11] and on video-on-demand the same day.[12][13][14][15]

Reception

Box office

In its opening weekend the film grossed $91,943 from 112 theaters.[16]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 89% based on 74 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critics' consensus reads: "The Wolf of Snow Hollow treads somewhat unsteadily between horror and comedy, but writer-director-star Jim Cummings' unique sensibilities make for an oddly haunting hybrid."[17] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 67 out of 100 based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[18]

John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Satisfying enough as a horror/slasher flick with a black-comedy aftertaste, it has some commercial appeal but doesn't represent a step forward artistically."[19] Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com awarded the film three-and-a-half out of four stars and wrote: "The snow-covered setting and bumbling cops, along with Cummings' deadpan sense of humor, have led to comparisons to the Coen brothers and there is a sense of 'Fargo meets Silver Bullet' in some of The Wolf of Snow Hollow, but it’s not like Cummings wears his influences as obviously as some genre filmmakers."[20]

Peter Debruge of Variety wrote: "Wolf actually does that thing we all hope second features won't: It reveals that idiosyncrasies of an unproven director's debut weren't quirks so much as weaknesses — a disappointment for those of us hoping lightning might strike twice for the Thunder Road helmer."[21]

Grant Hermanns of Comingsoon.net gave the film a 9.5 out of 10.[22] Chuck Bowen of Slant Magazine awarded the film three stars out of four.[23] Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A.V. Club graded the film a B.[24] Don Kaye of Den of Geek awarded the film two and a half stars out of five.[25] Vinnie Mancuso of Collider graded the film an A−.[26] Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting awarded the film three skulls out of five.[27] JimmyO of JoBlo.com gave the film a 9 out of 10.[28]

References

External links

• The Wolf of Snow Hollow at IMDb
• The Wolf of Snow Hollow at Rotten Tomatoes

На других языках

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- [en] The Wolf of Snow Hollow

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[ru] Оборотень (фильм, 2020)

«Оборотень» (англ. The Wolf of Snow Hollow; дословно — «Волк из снежной лощины») — американский комедийный фильм ужасов, сценарист и режиссёр Джим Каммингс и он же в главной роли. В фильме снимаются Рики Линдхоум, Хлоя Ист и Джимми Татро, а также Роберт Форстер в его последней роли в кино, которому фильм был посвящён[3]. Фильм был выпущен в ограниченных кинотеатрах и на видео по запросу 9 октября 2020 года компанией United Artists Releasing[4]. В России фильм вышел 18 марта 2021 года.

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