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...falling in love with her father's newly-fired employee and soon-to-be arch enemy would be the ultimate in rebellion. There you have it: "Wolf" is one cliched plot turn after another. We've seen it all before, done in other films with more camp or more horror. We've seen it intrigue and arouse, which it does here on occasion, but it simply doesn't tell or show anything original enough to be noteworthy or to carry the movie...
...19th century horror story from E.L. Doctorow...
...Nichols and the writers (novelist Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick) are treading a fine high wire; one misstep and off you tumble into self-satire, the modern horror film's omnipresent danger. But by provoking authentic laughter with their satirical thrusts at current corporate styles (Spader is a hilarious model of yuppie unctuousness), they make sure we are amused often and always at the right moments. If Nichols had less skill, we would crack up when the moon is full and Nicholson's stunt double starts leaping around the countryside, but using low light and slow motion, the director displays...
There is probably not enough terror in Wolf to satisfy today's hard-core horror fan -- no chain saws or razor-sharp fingernails -- but there is a well- measured sense of pity for Will. You could, if you wish, find in him a symbol for all kinds of human bedevilment. Mix that with humor, intelligence and high-style filmmaking and you have a true summer rarity -- a genre movie for grownups...
...half- century ago as they watched Snow White succumb to the poison apple or Bambi's mother die from a hunter's shotgun blast. Disney cartoons were often the first films kids saw and the first that forced them to confront the loss of home, parent, life. These were horror movies with songs, Greek tragedies with a cute chorus. They offered shock therapy to four-year-olds, and that elemental jolt could last forever...