Directed by: Wes Craven
Starring: Christina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg, Shannon Elizabeth, Portia de Rossi, Kristina Anapau, Mya
Joanie: I guess there's no such thing as safe sex with a werewolf.
Ellie: Why can't you just download porn like most normal teenagers?
Joanie: Putting on weight, Kyle?
Joanie: I'm not going to kill her. I'm just gonna rip her to shreds and let her choke on her own blood... and then maybe I'll eat her.
Continuity mistake: After Jimmy draws the pentagram on his hand to connect the dots, he holds up his hand to show his sister and the drawing is different from the one shown before. The outline is much darker.
Trivia: The making of this film was notorious, with the Weinsteins demanding director Wes Craven do four separate reshoots and the production lasting nearly five years. The movie was changed so much in reshoots and editing that entire characters were dropped from the film, including two main characters played by Skeet Ulrich and Mandy Moore. Editor Patrick Lussier claims that he has a VHS screener of the original cuts of the film, while to this day, fans have called for the release of the "Craven Cut."
Question: When did a shot to the head ever kill a werewolf? I always thought in their lore only silver bullets could do it.
Answer: As with other creatures of lore, there are different versions in different stories. I read a book in which most werewolves were male. The main character, a woman, was rare for being a woman werewolf. Other werewolf stories are not like that. In this movie, a shot to the head can kill a werewolf.
Answer: Different pieces of media have different rules and lore. Media isn't required to stick by classic rules, and this movie in particular toys with the classic rules a bit. For example, earlier in the film, Jimmy mentions that one of the ways to kill a werewolf is by severing the connection between the heart and brain, which would normally mean decapitation. However, blowing its brains out would also certainly accomplish that. Another example is the excellent werewolf movie "Ginger Snaps", in which pretty much anything can kill a werewolf as long as it inflicts enough damage.
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