My Animal isn't particularly scary, or particularly good for that matter, but the queer werewolf story taps into something elemental once in a blue moon. JacobOller's Sundance2023 review:
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—vocalized or seen—are never hard to decipher.” This shallowness persists in Matthews’ latest trip into horror,, a gay werewolf movie she wrote and her band soundtracked. Directed by Jacqueline Castel in her feature debut,’s moody dreams are in a territorial brawl with its small-town realism, which in turn barks and snaps at its soapy plot.
It’s also no place for Jonny , a beautiful figure skater who triple Axels into town like she was spun wholecloth out of our lead’s fanfiction. A movie-star out-of-towner, with a homophobic stereotype of an ice dancing dad and a hilariously square-headed jock of a dickhead boyfriend, takes a shine to the flannel-clad goalie behind the concession counter. Why? Heather barely has a personality, so it’s mostly because the movie needs her to.
Compared to the uncanny, quiet, snowed-in strangeness of the town and its sparse inhabitants, the fairy tale between these two never quite clicks. Stenberg and Menuez don’t have much in the script to bring them together and, aside from a magnetic dancing sequence, lack the spark of desire. Yet, by virtue of its filmmaker’s visual talents, they find chemistry in the fantasy.
In the cold light of day, freed from the monstrous psychosexual power of the moon, we’re confronted with the rest of the film’s contrived connective tissue. When we leave town, the film loses all sense of self. A drug-fueled trip to the casino is boring. A house party in a well-to-do suburb is jarring. A local bar, with a jukebox full of Boy Harsher and a dance floor filled with hot young people, simply does not exist—it feels plucked out of the ether in the worst way. They all feel like filler.
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