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One day, Jessica (Lauren Esposito) finds herself locked inside a cage, her hands bound, and she has no idea how she has come here. Eventually, Elyse (Shannon Ryan), a strict and strictly religious woman, pulls her from the cage to question her - and when she doesn't like Jessica's answers, she brutally tortures her. Jessica also meets the head of the facility, Father Torquemada (Soren Jensen), and the best theory she can come up with is she has fallen into the hands of dangerous religious nutters, of the sort that don't shy away from torturing and even killing. And to her frustration, she learns that Thomas (Julian Curtis), a nice guy who has picked her up in a bar is one of them, and apparently a priest even. Still, Jessica fails to make head or tails of her situation, she might be an agnostic, but hasn't lived a particularly sinful life - matter of fact, she had been a "good girl" mostly. And then she's telepathically contacted by Monique (Yasmin Langlois), whom she has seen occuppying a cage similar to hers in the next room, who tells her she has been infected with a werewolf virus, and Torquemada and company try to either cure or kill her. Of course, that sounds like rubbish to Jessica, but she can't deny increased healing powers of late and slowly developing super strength. So maybe Torquemada and company try to help her after all. Only, she can't be too sure of this, especially after she has witnessed Torquemada kill his own son (Matthew Pritchard) ...

Given the werewolf genre by and largeby and large suffers from formulaic storylines, First Moon does a pretty great job infusing fresh blood into it, by for one keeping its story lupine-free until the very finale, on the other borrowing freely from other genres, from survival horror to psychotic mystery to torture porn to religious fanatism tales- and the resulting whole is a rather fascinating piece of cinema that manages to make a homogenous whole out of these diverse elements thanks to a clever script that never reveals more than it avsolutely has to, a genre savvy directorial effort, and Lauren Esposito giving a great central perfromance surrounded by a very competent ensemble cast. Sure, this might not be a film for everyone as it's at times excessive in its violence, but it's almost sure to satisfy any dedicated horror fan.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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