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'Eight for Silver' succeeds at creating an old world with a unique werewolf problem, but it stumbles where it matters for a creature feature.

Starring Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie Even though this story of a community beset by a moonlight curse is set in 19th-century France, Sean Ellis’ period werewolf movie is probably the most commercial film in this year’s horror lineup at the Sundance Film Festival. It has adventure, a model leading man in Boyd Holbrook ( Logan, The Predator), an impressive body count and a ton of CGI. In fact, Eight For Silver probably relies a little too much on action instead of embracing the exceptional atmosphere created by art director Paulo Goncalves. Still, any filmmakers brave eno...

Amelia Crouch, Alistair Petrie and cast in 'Eight for Silver' Brooding and baleful, even if it loses bite after a strong opening. TWITTER Boyd Holbrook plays a late 19th century pathologist investigating a violent curse laying waste to landowners and villagers in Sean Ellis' reanimation of the werewolf legend. Writer-director Sean Ellis revisits the werewolf legend as a fogbound descent into Victorian Gothic in Eight for Silver. Led by Boyd Holbrook as a pathologist in the late 1800s who knows a thing or two about nightmarish curses, stalking lycanthropic beasts and family tragedy, the film ...

0Shares Beware the wolf, but not like before. There aren’t full moons or sexy werewolves this time around. Instead, Eight For Silver delivers a refreshingly horrifying take on werewolf lore and period piece horror. Sean Ellis’ new film is bloody, visceral, and a hell of a good time.  In the late 1800s, John McBride (Boyd Holbrook) is on the hunt for the beast that killed his wife and daughter. His search takes him to a small village, the top of which resides the landowner Seamus Laurant (Alistair Petrie) and his family: his wife Isabelle (Kelly Reilly), daughter Charlotte (Amelia Crouc...

SYNOPSIS: In the French countryside during the 1800s, John McBride, a pathologist tasked with determining whether the body of a young boy found in the works was the work of man or beast. After the vampire renaissance of the 00s, many horror fans waited for werewolves to have their moment. A long underutilized part of horror’s history, a solid werewolf film is tough to come by. When we finally get one that stands above the rest – let’s say something like Ginger Snaps or Dog Soldiers – it’s a day of celebration. Well, it looks like we can get the party hats as we have another strong...