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No movie year is complete without checking out at least one Asylum film, so what better than Battledogs? A film that takes your typical zombie movie and replaces the word 'zombie' with 'werewolf'.

It's a rocking premise, but with none of the Asylum's usual self aware humour, and their much more typical measly budgets, they shot way past their reach and didn't do such an awesome premise any justice. I mean seriously, these werewolves can be defeated by single gunshots and kindness. I think the bigger problem is this, the story is crap. It moves through such an utterly clichéd trajectory, with every storybeat a by the numbers affair for this kind of film.

About the only thing that sets it apart is the whole film is so rushed, it feels like whole chunks of the movie are missing as it leaps from one plot point to another, barely giving a moments context to what is transpiring. Which is a problem when your main villain is devoid of any sense of logic and reasoning, and yet still has a cult of devoted followers willing to die for him. Or that our central 'heroes' have a romance, despite it never being established at all, but the film wants us to care anyway.

And before someone says 'what do you expect', I think the Asylum have made some genuinely great movies, if you don't believe me check out flicks like Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies or their take on Sherlock Holmes. This just wasn't one of those great ones, not by a long shot.