Review of The Legend of the Wolf Woman (aka Werewolf Woman)

This is a film I'd love to love, but there are a few deterrents. First off, I think they lose the main idea right after the pre-titles. It is made hard to become interested. There are too many "experts" speculating on the cases, I think Sherlock Holmes is fine without competition, so why do we have all these doctors and detectives and they all have their "receiving vessels" with them. Annik Borel is great of course, but the real dilemma lies in the direction: it just loses all the "Kodak" moments. We have cool scenes, but what for? The plot is tiresome. I'd love to see on this dvd ALL the scenes with Elio Zamuto or Frederick Stafford within the DELETED scenes! Any good director would have cut their speech. For this reason, I cannot appreciate this movie as a whole. Annik Borel is awesome and a lot of the movie is! Perhaps I will just have to forgive the poor direction, because most of the time the film is pretty darn interesting...