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WHEREWOLVES

By John VAMVAS, Olga MONTES

MONTES-VAMVAS PRODUCTIONS INC. - as PROD

Horror - Development 2025

Bullies, jocks, and geeks. A teacher. The woods. An unspeakable horror. A fresh take on an old theme where nothing is what it seems. What is out there? Can it really be werewolves?

Festivals
& Awards

YoFiFest, The Yonkers Film Festival 2022

FINALIST

Skiptown Playhouse International Film Festival 2023

WINNER BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

The Pittsburgh Moving Picture Festival: Trailer Bash and Raging Pages 2023

WINNER BEST FEATURE-LENGTH SCREENPLAY

Diabolical Horror Film Festival 2023

NOMINEE BEST FEATURE SCRIPT

Bloodstained Indie Film Festival: Sci-Fi Horror Action 2023

OFFICIAL SELECTION

The Macoproject Film Festival 2023

NOMINATED BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Horror, Thriller
- Countries
- CANADA, USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Director(s)
- John VAMVAS, Olga MONTES
- Synopsis
- “KEPT ME ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT. GETS YOUR PULSE POUNDING”,
  Author and Gemini Award winning investigative journalist, Victor Malarek
  
  “SPARKLING DIALOGUE…THE WRITING IS SENSATIONAL”,
  Emmy and Peabody Award winning writer, William Mastrosimone
  
  Using a fun, explosive style, full of new slang and fresh dialogue, WHEREWOLVES is the story of a group of high school seniors, mostly “military brats”, who are headed for an army-type survival weekend.
  
  The underdogs, Jeffrey and Doris, do not want to go as they fear for their safety among the disdain and cruelty of the popular students. Sergeant Tim O’Sullivan, their teacher, as well as their dysfunctional parents pressure them into going, but it is an unforgivable act by their peers that propels the pair to go. Likewise, Elie, a student resented because of his Arab roots, is even more determined to prove himself this weekend. In the background, a news report cautions of a wanted couple with alleged super-human strength supposedly brought on by a new drug on the streets.
  
  In the woods, the students hike, hunt, camp, and soon act in unity as the forest brings them closer together. But does it? O’Sullivan leaves them alone for the night. The students bond, chant, tell campfire tales, and quickly lose their fears and inhibitions. HOO-AH! Though sexual tensions are high, it soon turns to violence and everything quickly turns sour.
  
  When the kids start disappearing one after the other, the remaining begin to unwittingly “act like the natives” carving spears, ready to face whatever is out there. What has gotten into them?
  
  Amid blood-curdling growls and gruesome deaths, the story’s underlying layers are revealed. We see how misconceptions, prejudice, greed, fear, and hatred bring out the worst and best in us.
  
  What is out there? Can it really be werewolves?
  
  “It reminded me a bit of Lord of the Flies versus Silver Bullet but only way cooler.”
  
  “Chillingly terrifying.”
  
  “This is one horror novel that will have you thinking long after you’ve finished reading.”
  
  WHEREWOLVES is an edge-of-your-seat horror packed with twists and an underlying social commentary. The film is a reflection on how ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions’. It looks at parents who serve their country but at what cost to their kids? – Teachers who mean well but are riddled with their own monsters. – Peer pressure, political events that have skewed our views of the world, greed, insecurity, desensitization, etc., etc. We tried to develop the characters to the point that despite their lack of likability, their humanity comes through, thus distorting the audience’s expectation of seeing good and bad, black and white, right and wrong. It’s written so that the audience comes away feeling that the horror in the film is not the monsters but in how monstrously we are capable of treating one another.

WHEREWOLVES

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