Project: MetalBeast (1995)

"Let him piss all over the bed!" - Larry

The military's experiments with werewolves (and lasagna) get way out of hand.
Starring: Kim Delaney, Barry Bostwick, John Marzilli, Musetta Vander, and Kane Hodder

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It's Miller time

The year is 1974, and a soldier named Butler is on a secret mission to kill a werewolf for army research. A few well aimed silver bullets and the beast goes down, so he takes a large sample of its blood back to his CIA boss, Mr. Miller. Butler decides to inject himself with the blood, in hopes of becoming a super soldier. It starts making him go crazy, so Miller has no choice but to shoot him with silver and place him in a frozen stasis pod!
Jump ahead twenty years later and Miller has his lab team working on synthetic metal tissues, led by the talented Dr Anna. Miller decides to test this metal skin on some cadavers, so he thaws the frozen Butler.
The skin grafts look exactly like burnt lasagna, and the doctors start transplanting them all over Butler, who is basically just a corpse as long as the silver bullets stay in his chest. It's not long before those get removed, of course, and Butler wakes up totally freaked out to find that he's back from the dead, covered in lasagna, and still has werewolf blood driving him crazy!

"There's been some incredible breakthroughs while you've been on ice." - Miller

There's effective suspense and creepiness in the first half, while Butler is just tied to the bed suffering, and questions of morality and freewill are discussed among the characters. It almost has a Twilight Zone feel to it, and this is also reinforced by the rather excellent musical score punctuating the drama. Miller doesn't care about anything except making a super soldier, but the scientists are scared and questioning their actions. The dialog isn't too great but the actors do a good job; Miller is a great villain and the scientists are a likable bunch. I was glad to see Dr. Anna become the center of the movie, because she's the voice of reason and I wanted to see her survive.

The wolf inside Butler beings emerging despite sedation, and the last 30 minutes has him going on an all out rampage through the building, now unstoppable with his metal-lasagna skin implants.
The survivors are desperate to find some silver weapons strong enough to stop the Metalbeast!

Werewolf puberty hits Butler pretty hard.

There are some slow parts, as too much time is spent repeatedly establishing that Miller is a jerk and that the scientists are scared, but there's laughs to be found and the monster is really well done (both visually and thematically,) since it's portrayed as a victim of circumstance and not just a mindless beast.
Low budget but well made, it ended up being more fun than I expected.

Be sure not to miss:
- It's odd that the scientists seem grossed-out by blood and fluids, and yet no one is shocked by the fact
that werewolves exist!
- If I hadn't pissed for 20 years, yeah I'd go on the bed, too!

Internet review:
"It's a howl!!" - kclipper

Should I watch it?
Worth it. And where else are you going to see a time-traveling, lasagna-wearing, zombie werewolf ?

Where can I find it?
On YouTube

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