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It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This film has a slight comedic flavour, inasmuch as it steals from the famous 'Bubba Ho-Tep'. In that movie the residents of the rest home have to fight off a mummy. Here, it's a werewolf. They also stole the two geeky drivers who visit the rest home on a regular basis and hate their job as well as the old people. The problem is that this film is not funny, and it doesn't really try to be, so I don't understand why it flirts with this tongue-in-cheek semi-humorous stuff. On a positive note, the film has a couple of decent scary moments. But it is also poorly written. For instance, the main character switches between being nice to his new neighbors and treating them with psychotic contempt for no reason whatsoever. Then, after the werewolf attack, in which half the house is demolished and an entire wall is torn down, the police seem to think an animal did that. What animal is that? An elephant? Bigfoot? Not even bears tear down walls. And then they tell the people to lock their doors and close the windows at night. Again, the thing literally walked through the wall. Will a closed window in any way impede it? Watch this film if you have nothing better to do, but don't expect much. Do some housework during the moronic dialogue scenes and come back when you hear that action is about to start. Don't expect much, though. This is some cheap action. As far as I'm concerned, this is another wasted opportunity, and I am offended by the lack of respect the filmmakers have for their audiences. Nobody is stupid enough to write that drivel. They knew they were writing drivel and they didn't care. Well, right back at you. One star.

A blind war veteran moves to a retirement community. He soon he realises that the area is plagued by werewolf attacks.Along with the Spanish comedy-horror Attack of the Werewolves (2011), Late Phases is among the best werewolf movies of the past few years for me. It benefits in a large part from having an interesting protagonist very well played by Nick Damici. He is a well-developed character whose spiky nature is used as an effective inroad for the audience quickly getting to know the community where the action takes place. His blindness also adds an additional angle, where he is simultaneously more vulnerable to the physical dangers but is more attune to what is going on under the surface. This latter element is typified by a mystery thread to the plot which is quite common in werewolf films whereby we try to find out who in the cast is the lycanthrope.The film benefited also from having a retro feel to it. I was almost put to mind of the kind of thing John Carpenter might have made back in the 80's if he had directed a werewolf movie. The music certainly harked back to that era with its moody synth heavy sounds being a very effective mood setter. Quite a few people seem to have a problem with the werewolf make-up in this one but I must say that I disagree. Pleasingly the film-makers opted to go for costumes and physical effects as opposed to cheap CGI and the result – to me at least – was quite organic looking monsters. There was one transformation scene, and while it didn't bring anything new to the table exactly, it was executed very well in my opinion. My favourite individual moment, however, was the scene where a werewolf leaps into the air and crashes down on a car windshield. It was an unusual and menacing moment which really stayed in the memory.All things considered, I have to put this down as a fine effort. With strong acting, a decent script, some good atmosphere and a few memorable werewolf scenes, I think this can definitely be considered a superior effort in its respective sub-genre.

I was expecting an indie horror movie with some low budget issues, but maybe something entertaining amidst the crap. What I got was a well acted, well done movie, using an original story and that was damn entertaining.Nick Damici is great as the blind veteran that has to battle werewolves in a old people retirement area. The script has some minor issues, mainly with the lack of involvement of the local authorities, but other than that, the story is spot on. Werewolves appear after 15 minutes into the story, the characters are complex, the hero both obnoxious and impossible not to like, the ending is epic.I don't understand people that rate something 4 or 5 out of 10 because it doesn't have superheroes or billions in budget. Do they understand that is it movie quality they have to rate? After being completely blown away by the movie I looked up Eric Stolze (who is NOT Eric Stoltz :) ) and saw that he also did Under the Bed, another really underrated original horror. I can't wait to see what he comes up with next.Bottom line: you are missing out if you like horror movies and originality and you don't watch this.

The "geriatric horror" subject and the picturesque rural atmosphere of Late Phases might suggest some resemblance to the film Bubba Ho-Tep, but I found it more similar to Silver Bullet, because both include tenacious main characters following the track of a werewolf, defying their physical disabilities and the incredulity of those around them. In Silver Bullet, the hero was a boy on a wheelchair, and in Late Phases, we have a sightless man; but both movies share the value and sense of duty impulsing their main characters, something which brings them more deepness than other samples of lycanthropic cinema. I also want to point out the fact that Late Phases doesn't exclusively exist to display its monster; on the opposite, the screenplay places the main character's investigation on the spotlight, gradually plunging us into the experience of the sightless man, who employs his sharp instincts and agile mind to implement a plan which could kill the creature stalking during the night... or run the risk of ending up as dead as the people who were victims of "domestic accidents" and "bear attacks" (according to the local police). And we also have Nick Damici's solid performance, displaying conviction and personality in his role. Screenwriter Eric Stolze keeps the story on a constant movement, even though he's not afraid of occasionally stopping to focus on an introspective moment from the main character, or to point out the injustice against "older adults", relegating them to oblivion when they still have a lot to offer to society, or to their own families. However, Stolze also portrays the other side of the problem in the shape of the main character's son, who doesn't know how to handle such a difficult and stubborn father. We rarely find these topics in horror cinema, and that's why Late Phases feels like something special which transcends genres and makes us forget of a few small logical leaps which slightly decrease the realism of the story, which is very human and endearing for the rest. I had seen werewolves employed as a metaphor of addiction (The Howling), the teenage hormones (Ginger Snaps) and the futility of war (Dog Soldiers); and in Late Phases, they symbolize the triumph of human dignity, even if we only realize it during the full moon.