The story begins when an unexpected phone call to the 47-year-old old woman returns to the cottage where she lived when she was a girl. She returns to the cottage to remember the boy she had learned to be a human being. It seems that the old lady will return to the memories of the 'wolf boy' who wanted to hide his large twisted body, and it also seems that the old woman will return to a real darkness that she remembers when she was a girl.
More sensitive than sensational, 'A Werewolf Boy' is an interesting hybrid of the 'Twilight' saga, 'Frankenstein,' and 'Beauty and the Beast.' But there are touches here that make it purely Korean.
Even though it may draw comparisons to Twilight, A Werewolf Boy has a more genuine demeanor with well-developed characters and an overpowering sense of benevolence.
Drenched in fairy tale romance and beautifully acted with one of the screen's most charismatic teen couples, I'll take A Werewolf Boy's sweet, quiet charms over the overwrought, turgid Twilight films and their CGI puppies any day.
