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The Legend of Wolf Mountain (1992) featuring most of the cast of Soultaker

Started by Deep_Hurting, December 17, 2022, 11:52:11 PM

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Deep_Hurting

Since they just riffed Project Eliminator (which featured a plethora of actors from Soultaker) I'd love for them to tackle The Legend of Wolf Mountain, which also features most of the same cast, only they blew their Joe Estevez budget on Bo Hopkins (playing the exact same small-town hick sheriff he always plays) and... holy sh*t, is that Mickie Rooney?!? Dear god man, why? Who did you owe money to?

You can watch the trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGo09OlsqQg

So, yeah... the plot is basically "what if Home Alone took place in the woods and involved at least 75% more punji sticks", and the gratuitously 90's kids on the run from Robert Z'Dar spend most of the film bickering and recklessly endangering themselves,  (one of them fails so hard at sitting on a log that he somehow ends up hanging off a cliff) only to be occasionally (but only occasionally) rescued from their own stupidity by a not at all offensive Native American spirit who speaks entirely through voice over.

This spirit (who gets a sepiatone backstory 3/4 of the way through the film similar to Joe Estevez in Soultaker) has the ability to shapeshift into a wolf... which may sound cool, but is not even *remotely* useful at any point during the film. It appears that if you have a choice between being a wolf spirit or a human spirit, there is zero advantage to being a wolf since you immediately lose the ability to see over barriers higher than 2 feet and opposable thumbs. Wolves, it turns out, completely suck. His wolf powers are primarily confined to the occasional running through the grass POV shot, and lame "Ah ha! I was a wolf staring at you from the bushes a few seconds ago... and now I'm a man staring at you from the same exact bushes... only now I can't see in the dark as well, but I can perceive color... so I guess that's a worthwhile tradeoff?"
At any rate. The entire movie is available in glorious HD for your viewing displeasure here: