This movie only serves to prove that you can't make a good film based solely on good special effects. The effects are the only selling points of the movie, and they are impressive (we're talking about old-fashioned, "Howling"-type transformations here, none of that modern "digital" stuff). But the story is pointless in the extreme. And the film is rather boring. An example of its bad storytelling: when the boy asks the older lady if she's a witch, there have been absolutely no indications apparent to him to make him reach such an unusual conclusion, yet the script goes right ahead with it because it's necessary for the "revelation" to be made at that moment. And the boy acts pretty casual about the whole "witch" business, too! (*1/2)
