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** They also manage to make the Navajo word ''yataali'' sound like "hot toddy".%%



* BadassBystander: A random citizen manages to kick Werewolf!Paul's ass. So much for the horror.

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* BadassBystander: A random citizen manages to kick Werewolf!Paul's Werewolf Paul's ass. So much for the horror.



* {{Infodump}}: The explanation of Werewolves early in the movie. The odd part is that it's completely irrelevant; the werewolves turn out to be nothing like Yee Naaldlooshii and exactly like the "white man's movie monster" version.

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* {{Infodump}}: The explanation of Werewolves early in the movie. The odd part is that it's completely irrelevant; the werewolves turn out to be nothing like Yee Naaldlooshii and exactly like the "white man's movie monster" version.version that Noel goes to great lengths to differentiate it from.



* ItsProbablyNothing
** They also manage to make the Navajo word ''yataali'' sound like "hot toddy".

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* ItsProbablyNothing
** They also manage to make
ItsProbablyNothing: The couple in the Navajo word ''yataali'' TerrorAtMakeoutPoint scene initially dismiss the sound like "hot toddy".of an approaching warwilf as probably nothing.



* PaperTiger: For deadly werewolves, neither Paul nor Tommy are shown as much of a threat. Tommy is gunned down easily not even thirty minutes in (he only kills a security guard during his escape from the hospital, and that's arguably self-defense) and Paul only kills two people over the course of the movie (one of whom he was only able to kill because she tripped and fell while running away). At one point a random dude on the street manages to fight Werewolf!Paul with his bare hands and almost ''wins''.

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* PaperTiger: For deadly werewolves, neither Paul nor Tommy are shown as much of a threat. Tommy is gunned down easily not even thirty minutes in (he only kills a security guard during his escape from the hospital, and that's arguably self-defense) and Paul only kills two people over the course of the movie (one of whom he was only able to kill because she tripped and fell while running away). At one point a random dude BadassBystander on the street manages to fight Werewolf!Paul Werewolf Paul with his bare hands and almost ''wins''.



* TerrorAtMakeoutPoint: Toward the end of the film, a wolfed-out Paul kills a couple making out in their car.



** Also, Yuri was earlier shown to be, well, a psychopath; he manages to beat down all ''three'' of the diggers, and later Paul, fairly easily. A random bystander on the street almost fistfights Werewolf!Paul to a standstill. Yuri seems to forget he that he's a punch-happy psychopath when he encounters were-Paul.
** Upon first discovering the wurwulf, Sam decides to freeze up and cry for help instead of reaching for the shotgun sitting just a few feet away from him.

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** %%** Also, Yuri was earlier shown to be, well, a psychopath; he manages to beat down all ''three'' of the diggers, and later Paul, fairly easily. A random bystander on the street almost fistfights Werewolf!Paul to a standstill. Yuri seems to forget he that he's a punch-happy psychopath when he encounters were-Paul.
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were-Paul.%%Unclear what point is being made here%%
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Upon first discovering the wurwulf, Sam decides to freeze up and cry for help instead of reaching for the shotgun sitting just a few feet away from him.%%This is Sam being a panicky coward, not an idiot, and he doesn't die%%



* UnfazedEveryman: After Werewolf!Paul bursts out of a bar, attacks two people, and runs off into the night, two old ladies appear, step over the bodies, and enter the bar as if nothing happened.
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Werewolf!Paul does this... a lot... for any reason.

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* UnfazedEveryman: After Werewolf!Paul Paul wolfs out and bursts out of a bar, attacks two people, and runs off into the night, two old ladies appear, step over the bodies, and enter the bar as if nothing happened.
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Werewolf!Paul Werewolf Paul does this... a lot... for any reason.
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%% * InactionSequence: The barroom scene.
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** Carrie in her tiny, tiny skirt.



* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Sam, the keeper, looks a lot like Fidel Castro and acts a lot like a nutcase.
** "Not Bob Vila! No!"
** "Basquiat is in danger!"
** "Music/BrooksAndDunn finally have it out!"

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* %%* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Sam, the keeper, looks a lot like Fidel Castro and acts a lot like a nutcase.
** %%** "Not Bob Vila! No!"
** %%** "Basquiat is in danger!"
** %%** "Music/BrooksAndDunn finally have it out!"


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* RedOniBlueOni: [[red:Yuri]], and [[blue:Noel]]. Case in point: Noel breaks up the fight between Yuri and the dig team. Later, when Yuri is drunk, tries to fondle Natalie, and gets in a shouting match with Paul, Noel drags him outside, tells him to sober up and apologize to Natalie.
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* StockSoundEffects: You will hear the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33DWqRyAAUw screech of the red-tailed hawk]] more often in the course of watching "Werewolf" than during five years of ''Series/TheColbertReport''.

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* StockSoundEffects: You will hear the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33DWqRyAAUw screech of the red-tailed hawk]] more often in the course of watching "Werewolf" than during five years of ''Series/TheColbertReport''. All the fight scenes feature gratuitous use of stock punching and grunting sound effects, and when Paul is chasing down the jeep girl, the movie overlays her screaming with several well-known stock shrieks (and does it so incompetently that she and the stock effects are both audible).

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* CutLexLuthorACheck: Noel and Yuri seem to believe that turning people into werewolves will get them fame and fortune. You'd think finding the remains of ''an actual werewolf'' would mean more than enough for both of them.



* IResembleThatRemark: When Paul calls Yuri a psychopath, Yuri savagely attacks him with the skull of the werewolf.

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* IResembleThatRemark: When Paul calls Yuri a psychopath, Yuri gets furious and savagely attacks him with the skull of the werewolf.



* JerkAss: Yuri.

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* JerkAss: Yuri.{{Jerkass}}: Yuri; even ignoring his ploy to infect people with lycanthropy for profit, he's a rude, obnoxious, and at times even violent asshole.



* KindheartedSimpleton: Natalie is a NiceGirl, but comes across as not very bright or observant (this may be due to bad acting, rather than intentional).

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* KindheartedSimpleton: Natalie is a NiceGirl, but comes across as not very bright or observant (this (though this may be due to bad acting, rather than intentional).



* TheManBehindTheMan: Noel.
* MonsterMisogyny: As usual.

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* %%* TheManBehindTheMan: Noel.
* %%* MonsterMisogyny: As usual.



* PsychoForHire: Yuri.

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Yuri derisively refers to a Native American worker at the dig site as "Geronimo".
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PsychoForHire: Yuri.
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* [[DeathBySex (Almost) Death By Sex]]: Natalie gets turned into a werewolf by doing the nasty with a lycanthropizing Paul.
** [[DeathBySex Death By (Almost) Sex]]: A couple is well on their way to some AutoErotica, hesitating briefly because the guy doesn't have a condom, when Wolf!Paul shows up, frightening the girl into running away. She gets killed, her boyfriend [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse vanishes for the rest of the movie]].
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The first ten minutes or so of the film shows one of the crew getting scratched by the skeleton and eventually turning into a werewolf who is quickly put down by other members of the crew (including one played by [[Film/{{Soultaker}} Joe Estevez]]). However, the ill-tempered foreman of the dig site, Yuri (played by Jorge Rivero), took some of his blood and soon becomes fascinated with the idea of creating a "man-made" werewolf. Soon after the first werewolf gets put down, a writer named Paul Niles (Federico Cavalli) moves into a house in suburban Flagstaff and becomes close to another of the archaeologists, Natalie Burke (Adrianna Miles). As the two make nice at a party, Yuri makes his first attempt at werewolf creation via an ill-fated security guard (played by the film's director, Tony Zarindast), who promptly crashes his car mid-transformation and dies. However, Yuri's growing dislike for Paul turns into an opportunity when the two men fight at the lab where the werewolf skeleton is housed and Yuri stabs Paul with the skull. Soon, Paul finds himself becoming a werewolf at night and menacing the entire town. Events come to a head when he's finally revealed to both Natalie and Yuri, as the former has fallen in love with him, while the latter just wants to cage him up and make money off of him.

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The first ten minutes or so of the film shows one of the crew getting scratched by the skeleton and eventually turning into a werewolf who is quickly put down by other members of the crew (including one played by [[Film/{{Soultaker}} Joe Estevez]]). However, the ill-tempered foreman of the dig site, Yuri (played by Jorge Rivero), took some of his blood and soon becomes fascinated with the idea of creating a "man-made" werewolf. Soon after the first werewolf gets put down, a writer named Paul Niles (Federico Cavalli) moves into a house in suburban Flagstaff and becomes close to another of the archaeologists, Natalie Burke (Adrianna Miles). As the two make nice at a party, Yuri makes his first attempt at werewolf creation via an ill-fated security guard (played by the film's director, Tony Zarindast), who promptly crashes his car mid-transformation and dies. However, Yuri's growing dislike for Paul turns into an opportunity when the two men fight at the lab where the werewolf skeleton is housed and Yuri stabs Paul with the skull.skull[[note]]Which has pointy ears, for some reason[[/note]]. Soon, Paul finds himself becoming a werewolf at night and menacing the entire town. Events come to a head when he's finally revealed to both Natalie and Yuri, as the former has fallen in love with him, while the latter just wants to cage him up and make money off of him.
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* SkinWalker: InNameOnly. The movie actually goes to some lengths to explain how a skin walker is different from a werewolf... and then the monster works exactly like a werewolf.

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* SkinWalker: InNameOnly. The movie actually goes to some lengths to explain how a skin walker is different from a werewolf... and then the monster works exactly like a werewolf. Partially justified in Paul's case as skin walkers are rarely discussed by Navajo people with outsiders and as Paul comes from a non-native background, he wouldn't have known the first thing about any authentic skin walker practices or witchcraft whether as man or beast.
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* ShesGotLegs: Carrie.
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* HotScientist: Say what you want, Adrianna Miles is one comely lass.
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Not to be confused with the [[TabletopGame/Werewolf1986 card game]] or the [[Series/Werewolf1987 1987 TV series]] of the same name.

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Not to be confused with the [[TabletopGame/Werewolf1986 [[TabletopGame/Werewolf1997 card game]] or the [[Series/Werewolf1987 1987 TV series]] of the same name.
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Not to be confused with the [[TabletopGame/{{Werewolf}} card game]] or the [[Series/Werewolf1987 1987 TV series]] of the same name.

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Not to be confused with the [[TabletopGame/{{Werewolf}} [[TabletopGame/Werewolf1986 card game]] or the [[Series/Werewolf1987 1987 TV series]] of the same name.
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Not to be confused with the [[TabletopGame/{{Werewolf}} card game]] or the [[Series/{{Werewolf}} 1987 TV series]] of the same name.

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Not to be confused with the [[TabletopGame/{{Werewolf}} card game]] or the [[Series/{{Werewolf}} [[Series/Werewolf1987 1987 TV series]] of the same name.

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[[caption-width-right:300:The DVD cover, which looks more impressive than [[CoversAlwaysLie the actual movie]].]]


''Werewolf'', also known as ''Arizona Werewolf'', is a 1996 direct-to-video horror film.

Archaeologists working in Arizona find a werewolf skeleton. In this film, werewolves are part of American Indian mythology, which the head archaeologist Noel (Creator/RichardLynch) calls a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker skin-walker]] or ''yee naaldlooshii'' (which somehow gets pronounced "yottaglanchi"). And apparently werewolves take on habits such as "sleeping nose to anus". [[note]]"What? It's fun!"[[/note]]

...that's a quote from the film, by the way.

The first ten minutes or so of the film shows one of the crew getting scratched by the skeleton and eventually turning into a werewolf who is quickly put down by other members of the crew (including one played by [[Film/{{Soultaker}} Joe Estevez]]). However, the ill-tempered foreman of the dig site, Yuri (played by Jorge Rivero), took some of his blood and soon becomes fascinated with the idea of creating a "man-made" werewolf. Soon after the first werewolf gets put down, a writer named Paul Niles (Federico Cavalli) moves into a house in suburban Flagstaff and becomes close to another of the archaeologists, Natalie Burke (Adrianna Miles). As the two make nice at a party, Yuri makes his first attempt at werewolf creation via an ill-fated security guard (played by the film's director, Tony Zarindast), who promptly crashes his car mid-transformation and dies. However, Yuri's growing dislike for Paul turns into an opportunity when the two men fight at the lab where the werewolf skeleton is housed and Yuri stabs Paul with the skull. Soon, Paul finds himself becoming a werewolf at night and menacing the entire town. Events come to a head when he's finally revealed to both Natalie and Yuri, as the former has fallen in love with him, while the latter just wants to cage him up and make money off of him.

The movie remained mostly obscure until it became the feature of a 1998 episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.

Not to be confused with the [[TabletopGame/{{Werewolf}} card game]] or the [[Series/{{Werewolf}} 1987 TV series]] of the same name.

See the rundown of the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E04Werewolf here]].

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!!Tropes used in ''Werewolf'':

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Yuri is a male version for Natalie.
* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Both Yuri and especially Natalie do this a lot.
-->'''Natalie:''' ''This doesn't look like any conventional animal '''I'M''' familiar with!''
-->'''Yuri:''' ''[[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Hey, Geronimo!]] I said get '''BACK''' to work!''
* AffablyEvil: Noel is a generally nice and levelheaded man, especially compared to Yuri. But he's still willing to sacrifice Paul and anyone he might kill in exchange for the "fame and fortune" a "modern man-made werewolf" might bring him.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: For some reason, the werewolf skull has ears.
* ArtisticLicenseSpace: There is a full moon for several nights in a row. The only way this would be possible is the moon somehow stopped in its orbit, in which case it should have [[NoEndorHolocaust gotten pulled into Earth's gravity and killed everyone.]]
* BadassBystander: A random citizen manages to kick Werewolf!Paul's ass. So much for the horror.
* BonesDoNotBelongThere: The werewolf skeleton has bone ears that curve downward to look like floppy dog's ears.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: There are a couple moments where Yuri looks at the camera, almost expecting a reaction.
* CreatorCameo: Director Tony Zarindast as Vic, the security guard who gets turned into a werewolf and crashes his car.
** DeathByCameo
* CrazySurvivalist[=/=]CrustyCaretaker: Sam the Keeper, of "I just heard Count Dracula was a faggot!" fame. He's practically a one-man WackyWaysideTribe, really; he's unimpeachably bizarre, there's no reason for him to be in the movie and he has no effect on the plot, and yet the movie would be NOTHING without him.
** DirtyCoward: He's also remarkably little girl-ish in the face of danger.
* DeadlyScratch: A mere scratch from an ancient werewolf skeleton is enough to begin the ViralTransformation.
* [[DeathBySex (Almost) Death By Sex]]: Natalie gets turned into a werewolf by doing the nasty with a lycanthropizing Paul.
** [[DeathBySex Death By (Almost) Sex]]: A couple is well on their way to some AutoErotica, hesitating briefly because the guy doesn't have a condom, when Wolf!Paul shows up, frightening the girl into running away. She gets killed, her boyfriend [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse vanishes for the rest of the movie]].
* DullSurprise: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDXwOzG7fE Dis is ubsolutely fesscinating]]."
* EightiesHair: Despite the film being made in the mid-'90s.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the very first scene the archaeologists uncover the werewolf skeleton. When one of them accidentally steps on the skeleton Yuri immediately starts [[HairTriggerTemper beating the crap out of him.]]
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* ForScience: Why is Yuri making people into werewolves? Because that's the plot.
** If you squint, you might be able to see that Noel and Yuri think the whole "warwelf" thing will make them celebrities and ensure enough money to continue their research for as long as they want. It still doesn't explain why Yuri goes around jabbing random security guards with werewolf blood.
--->'''Natalie:''' You and Noel is in it for fame and fortune!
** Yuri uses the term "modern, man-made wuhr-welf" constantly, like he's got a copyright on that term. Though, at the time he's drunk and pissed, and wants to test his theory on the security guard.
* FrequentlyFullMoon: The movie has a full moon last several nights in a row.
* HairTriggerTemper: Yuri's response to almost every situation is to get pissed and ''immediately'' start wailing on whoever makes him angry.
* HollywoodDarkness: The depths of blue-filter night.
* HotScientist: Say what you want, Adrianna Miles is one comely lass.
%% * InactionSequence: The barroom scene.
* {{Infodump}}: The explanation of Werewolves early in the movie. The odd part is that it's completely irrelevant; the werewolves turn out to be nothing like Yee Naaldlooshii and exactly like the "white man's movie monster" version.
* InformedAbility: Paul gives his occupation as a writer and yet is never once seen writing anything, even going so far as to blow off Natalie's question as to what he's working on. We get that he needed an occupation that [[OneHourWorkWeek allowed him to remain at home a lot]], but couldn't they have worked in a shot of him sitting at a typewriter or something?
* IResembleThatRemark: When Paul calls Yuri a psychopath, Yuri savagely attacks him with the skull of the werewolf.
* ItsProbablyNothing
** They also manage to make the Navajo word ''yataali'' sound like "hot toddy".
* JerkAss: Yuri.
* KarmaHoudini: Noel is responsible for digging up the werewolf and getting Yuri to infect innocent people with lycanthropy, but apparently he gets off just fine. On the other hand, he was smart enough to not go chasing after a pissed-off werewolf while unarmed, unlike Yuri...
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Yuri gets away with turning someone into a werewolf on purpose, as well as physically assaulting multiple people. [[spoiler:At the end, Paul (in werewolf form) tracks him down and mauls him to death]].
* KindheartedSimpleton: Natalie is a NiceGirl, but comes across as not very bright or observant (this may be due to bad acting, rather than intentional).
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Sam states that he's one of the good guys.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: At one point, the background music is actually ''turned off'' by Paul when he turns off his radio.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Noel.
* MonsterMisogyny: As usual.
* MsFanservice: Natalie, especially when she wears a tight blouse while playing billiards.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Easily subverted. "'''Paul''', you is a wur-wilf!"
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Sam, the keeper, looks a lot like Fidel Castro and acts a lot like a nutcase.
** "Not Bob Vila! No!"
** "Basquiat is in danger!"
** "Music/BrooksAndDunn finally have it out!"
* NoisyNature: Wolf/coyote howls punctuate the audio.
* [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Our Yee Naaldlooshii Are Different]]: Even getting scratched by the bones of one can infect you, and they sleep nose to anus.
** And it's even specifically claimed early in the movie by Noel that this isn't your movie monster, white man's "werewolf". Note that ''at no point'' is the yee naaldlooshii shown to be even slightly different from the standard movie werewolf dating back to ''Film/TheWolfMan1941''.
** Also, the skull has ears.
* PaperTiger: For deadly werewolves, neither Paul nor Tommy are shown as much of a threat. Tommy is gunned down easily not even thirty minutes in (he only kills a security guard during his escape from the hospital, and that's arguably self-defense) and Paul only kills two people over the course of the movie (one of whom he was only able to kill because she tripped and fell while running away). At one point a random dude on the street manages to fight Werewolf!Paul with his bare hands and almost ''wins''.
** The security guard who turns into a werewolf then promptly crashes his car and dies. To be fair, yee naaldlooshii probably aren't very good drivers...
* PsychoForHire: Yuri.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: At one point Natalie says "You and Noel is(sic) in this for fame and fortune?" Whether she flubbed the line and they didn't bother with another take, or if the script writer really didn't know this wasn't proper grammar is unknown.
* ShesGotLegs: Carrie.
* SilverBullet: Joe and his pal are somehow able to cobble together silver shotgun pellets in an evening's time to shoot their lycanthropizing buddy, Tommy. Subverted in that this doesn't kill him; he's mentioned as being hospitalized after that.
* SkinWalker: InNameOnly. The movie actually goes to some lengths to explain how a skin walker is different from a werewolf... and then the monster works exactly like a werewolf.
* StockSoundEffects: You will hear the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33DWqRyAAUw screech of the red-tailed hawk]] more often in the course of watching "Werewolf" than during five years of ''Series/TheColbertReport''.
%% * TokenBlackFriend: Elgin. The trope is so blatant as to almost be a parody.
* TooDumbToLive: Unlike Yuri, if you successfully create a savage werewolf, do be sure not to taunt it, won't you? And if you hear bestial growling and snarling emanating from a room, don't go inside like the landlady does (though the landlady survives the encounter anyway).
** Also, if you are in a relatively well-protected vehicle and you have the keys to it, do NOT exit the vehicle for no reason and make yourself an easy target for the werewolf outside of the vehicle.
** Also, Yuri was earlier shown to be, well, a psychopath; he manages to beat down all ''three'' of the diggers, and later Paul, fairly easily. A random bystander on the street almost fistfights Werewolf!Paul to a standstill. Yuri seems to forget he that he's a punch-happy psychopath when he encounters were-Paul.
** Upon first discovering the wurwulf, Sam decides to freeze up and cry for help instead of reaching for the shotgun sitting just a few feet away from him.
* TwistEnding: And a rather nonsensical one at that.
* UnfazedEveryman: After Werewolf!Paul bursts out of a bar, attacks two people, and runs off into the night, two old ladies appear, step over the bodies, and enter the bar as if nothing happened.
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Werewolf!Paul does this... a lot... for any reason.
* WeirdMoon: "The most stubborn full moon in the history of the world." The moon is ''always'' full in Flagstaff apparently.
* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened to the Landlady?]]: So she gets chucked down the stairs by her lycanthropic tenant, and just... gets up and walks away. It's understandable that she'd want to get out of town, sure, but she apparently doesn't call the police, or tell Sam the Keeper or confront Paul about what happened or — or ''anything''.
** Also, two characters — including Joe Estevez's — disappear right after stopping the first werewolf and aren't ever referred to again.
** Tommy, the first werewolf, is mentioned as having survived being shot with silver bullets and having been hospitalized for it but then never mentioned again.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Most of the characters, but especially Natalie.[[note]] Adrianna Miles, née Stastny, is Czech.[[/note]]
* WraparoundBackground: Possibly the only ''live-action'' example, when the security guard's driving rampage passes the exact same gas station four or five times.

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