Out Come the Wolves Review – A Graphic, Gripping, Suspense Thriller
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- Category: Indies, Docs, Foreign Film
- Published on Thursday, 29 August 2024 20:43
- Written by Janet Walker
Out Come the Wolves, from IFC Midnight and Shudder, presents a gripping, man against wild animals, race against time survivalist thriller, as a pack of wild wolves terrorize two hunters leaving one to chose who lives or dies.
The film opens with a camera pan through the woods, and finally settles on a wounded hunter, crawling, he can barely move, his clothing is soiled with dirt, blood, and slowly he falls to the ground, he appears dead.
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Sophie, played by Missy Peregrym, is trying to bring the two men in her life, her girlhood bestie, Kyle, played by Joris Jarsky, and her fiancé Nolan, played by Damon Runyan, together and set them up on a bromance outing. Nolan, and editor and writer, has an article to complete on hunting and, Sophie has become a vegan and refuses to teach him.
She asks Kyle to teach him. Soon the two bond as he teaches him to use a bow and fire a gun. Once the sun sets, they are toasting Nolan's success as he finally hits the bottle targets. The three of them retreat to the house, he refuses to close his laptop and joins in with Sophie and Kyle. What began with promise, ended with Nolan retreating to finish his article and trying to manipulate Sophie's emotions, and his jealousy over Kyle is clear.
The next morning Nolan and Kyle are walking through the woods. At this point, we're not sure if this is just a sit and wait hunting trip, or does Nolan really expect to bag an eight-point buck? The bromance hopes are over, as the words from the night before and the obvious jealousy between the two over Sophie, has made this trip a show and tell outing.
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Suddenly they see a deer, and for the article, Kyle passes on the shot and gives it to Nolan, who tries, but thinking about hunting and killing for the pleasure of killing just isn't in his DNA. Kyle uses the bow and wounds the animal. Nolan has realized even seeing the animal suffer, needlessly, hunting is not for him.
Suddenly, another deer appears and Kyle takes the rifle from Nolan and wounds the deer. Nolan insists they return to the wounded deer and end its suffering. In the distance, we see Nolan has stopped. As Kyle reaches him, we understand why. A wolf is feeding on the deer.
Nolan is frozen with terror. The wolf is guarding his kill, he looks at the two men, and snarls, Nolan makes a sudden move to help release the rifle, and the wolf springs on him, viciously mauling him. It is graphic, Kyle doesn't have a shot. Suddenly there is a pack of wolves, and they are feeding on the wounded, Nolan. He begins to beg Kyle not to leave him, but he is as terrorized as Nolan and flees, leaving the inexperienced and gravely wounded Nolan.
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He returns to the cabin and explains to Sophie about the Nolan and the wolves, and she takes off to recuse him. This sets up the final act.
Out Comes The Wolves, reminiscent of recent man against beast survivalist thrillers, is a race against the unexpected thriller. The film begins with a slow build and delivers heightened suspense and graphic, with squeamish, and realistic mauling scenes.
Riveting, with distressing, bloody, attack scenes, Out Comes the Wolves opens in theaters, and VOD, August 30, 2024. See it.
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Country: U.S.
Language: English.
Runtime: 87 minutes.
Release Date: August 29, 2024.
Director: Adam MacDonald.
Screenplay: Enuka Okuma.
Story by: Joris Jarsky, Adam MacDonald, Enuka Okuma.
Cast: Missy Peregrym, Joris Jarsky, Damon Runyan.
