Curse of the Werehuahua – review

Director: Lucas Millhouse

Release date: 2021

Contains spoilers

A lycanthrope who changes into a Chihuahua, well it could only be a comedy and this is. It is perhaps a tad over-stretched to the concept but the central characters were fun enough and that keeps the viewer with it. The almost urban fantasy aspect seemed a little not on point but, again, if you can go with it then it’s fun enough.

It starts, as you would imagine, with a chihuahua – in many respects the world’s luckiest chihuahua. It is running through a parkland area when it appears to be struck by lightning, but gets up and carries on. Then what appears to be a meteorite strikes it but it manages to breeze through the explosion. A pickup with toxic waste barrels manages to lose a barrel as it turns, causing a spill and the dog runs through the spill… its eyes turn green.

robbery

We have a montage about Dustin (J.R. Timothy, Vampires are Real & Vampires are Real 2) and Gary (Lucas Millhouse) a couple of guys in a house share (there are two other housemates whose presence is almost background) who work together in a coffee shop and do fun things together, We also, in the montage, see Gary meet a woman, Lizzie (Brittany Shamy). The friends walk a dog and are robbed but a growl spooks the robber and, retrieving their belongings, Dustin is bitten by the growling Chihuahua.

the Van Helsing Chapter

This, then, turns him in to a werehuahua and that night he goes on a rampage (although his first attempt at an attack goes badly awry there are several bodies in the house in the morning). Like a good friend, Gary helps him clean up. They go to the library and find a book on monsters, ‘Myths, Monsters and Musical Numbers’. The book is oddly specific and accurate, with its chapter on the werehuahua suggesting that, after a specific number of kills, the Van Helsing (Todd Michael Thompson) will be summoned to despatch the werehuahua.

Bakir Mehinovic as Morganroth

At one point the story peels off to meet Morganroth VanCleek (Bakir Mehinovic) and see his disastrous date. He is walking with his date (Jordyn Aspyn) when Dustin attacks (as a werehuahua he will turn to any moon). Dustin and Morganrith fight and, when the action pauses, Dustin realises that his foe is a (low self-esteem, poorly performing) vampire. They become friends (though the Van Helsing is after Morganroth as well) and Gary and Dustin meet his vampire mother (Robin Towle), who he still lives with. Morganroth comes in and out of the story thereafter – hence this is a review. Eventually the Van Helsing hires a group of fantasy people (a Viking, elf, sorceress etc) to help finish off the werehuahua – though it is during the day when the showdown takes place and so Dustin is in human form and Morganroth is swaddled in clothes to avoid the sun.

the werehuahua 

This was amusing, though I didn’t find it laugh out loud funny and it traded mostly on the fact that Gary and Dustin were likeable characters. At over 2-hours it could have stood to have a wedge shaved off the running time. The werehuahua looked pretty cool, especially as it didn’t have to look ultra-realistic given the comedy aspect, and the other effects were minimally used. This won’t set the world on fire but it was amusing enough. 5 out of 10.

The imdb page is here.

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