An enormous body count and utter brutality have made it difficult for the sci-fi action film Project Wolf to find its way into cinemas. Now there is clarity.
The year is still young, but few films will slap as high a body count and as much fake blood on the screen in 2023 as Project Wolf Hunting. That much is certain.
The action film pits a horde of ruthless criminals against a super soldier zombie (or is it a zombie super soldier?). In any case, the result is ultra-brutally staged action butchery that allegedly consumed around 2,500 litres of fake blood. But what does the FSK say about that?
FSK initially refused to release the action spectacle
So far, the South Korean sci-fi action film has been screened at relevant genre festivals such as the Fantasy Film Fest. Capelight, however, also wants to bring it to cinemas across Germany for the hungry genre audience. The first attempt did not succeed.
In January, the FSK refused to release the film. Capelight then filed an appeal, which was apparently successful (via Schnittberichte ). Yesterday, the FSK published the release certificate, concluding that the film was not suitable for young people. Project Wolf Hunting may now be released in German cinemas after all.
When is Project Wolf Hunting coming to the cinema?
In a Facebook post, Capelight has spread the good news: Project Wolf Hunting is coming to German cinemas unabridged on March 2, 2023.
View the trailer for Project Wolf Hunting here:
The sci-fi action movie pits criminals against a super-zombie
Project Wolf Hunting is a kind of Con Air with super soldiers. It centres (initially) on the transport of 47 felons in a cargo ship. Soon the most ruthless criminals manage to take out their guards. However, neither cops nor gangsters suspect what is hidden in the belly of the ship. There, a kind of zombie super-soldier named Alpha (Gwi-hwa Choi) is carried along, who in turn overpowers his overseers. Alpha, a mixture of Frankenstein and the T-1000, in turn draws a trail of blood through the ship, while the few surviving “good guys” try to stop the murderous passengers.
The basic idea of the film, which I was able to see last year at the festival in Sitges, sounds reasonably simple. However, the script of Project Wolf Hunting is enriched with a conspiracy that goes back decades and seems somewhat bloated in the last third. Those who can’t get enough of fountains of blood, broken bones and slashed flesh will have a great time with Project Wolf Hunting. It would be no exaggeration to call this film both the bloodiest and the most brutal of this cinema year.
The routinely staged sci-fi actioner with minimal characterisation seems for long stretches like an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records with the highest possible body count. Either you join the journey into this slaughterhouse of the seas or you bail out because of the tiring butchery of uninteresting characters. In any case, I personally did not leave the cinema bored.
