Directed by Claudio Fragasso
Written by Rossella Drudi
Starring:
- Alice Cooper as Vince Raven
- Victoria Vera as Sandra
- Carlos Santurio as Frank
- Pepa Sarsa as Marilou
- Carole James as Angela
Rating: 
Alice Cooper plays the lead role in this groovy, misty Euro-horror pseudo-lycanthropy yarn as Vince Raven — essentially a meta-characterization of his persona — a rock singer returning to his hometown with his production crew to shoot a music video. But as he approaches the thick gloom that engulfs the area, foggy memories of his fateful upbringing begin to haunt him, vicious untamed hounds prowl the vicinity, and a ravenous beast stalks the night, driven by a ferocious full-moon appetite. Claudio Fragasso is back at it — shamelessly ripping off genre giants, slapping together a trashy, over-the-top knockoff of Anglo horror staples, and loving every second of it. This time he hijacks the old werewolf mythos and drags it into the present, swapping in Alice Cooper as the heavy-metal antihero. Cooper can’t act, Fragasso can’t direct — but hell, they both know how to put on a show. It ain’t classy, it ain’t clever, but it knows exactly what it is — and that makes it a damn fun ride. Alice Cooper leans hard into his ghoulish glam-rock image, and Fragasso doesn’t waste a second turning him into a walking, snarling pulp horror figure. Forget the Wolfman — this is the era of the Dogman! And if that wasn’t enough, the whole thing is bookended by “Identity Crisis,” the most killer, underrated anthem Cooper ever unleashed.
