Wer (2013)

A defense attorney begins to suspect that there might be more to her client, who is charged with the murders of a vacationing family, than meets the eye.

Director:

William Brent Bell

Writers:

William Brent Bell (screenplay), Matthew Peterman (screenplay)

Stars:

A.J. Cook, Brian Scott O'Connor, Sebastian Roché

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
A.J. Cook	...	Kate Moore
Brian Scott O'Connor	...	Talan Gwynek
Sebastian Roché	...	Klaus Pistor
Simon Quarterman	...	Gavin Flemyng
Vik Sahay	...	Eric Sarin
Stephanie Lemelin	...	Claire Porter
Brian Johnson	...	Henry Porter
Oaklee Pendergast	...	Peter Porter
Camelia Maxim	...	Mrs. Gwynek
Alexandru Nedelcu	...	Officer Rineaux
Daniel Popa	...	News Interviewer
Alin Olteanu	...	Lead Officer - Abandoned Building
Ioan Brancu	...	Doctor
Adrian Ciobanu	...	Lead Officer At Barn #1
Corneliu Ulici	...	Lead Officer At Barn #2

Storyline

In France, the Porter family is slaughtered while camping in the woods and only Claire Porter survives seriously wounded. She reports that her husband Henry and her son Peter have been eaten alive by a strong man. The eremite Talan Gwynek that lives in the woods with his mother is arrested by the police accused of being the killer. The defense attorney Kate Moore is assigned to defend Talan and she comes to the police station with her investigator Eric Sarin and the animal expert Gavin Flemyng to interview Talan. The unwilling police inspector Klaus Pistor is sure that Talan is the murderer but has to let Kate and her team work. There is turmoil in the precinct and Gavin is scratched by Talan. Then they visit Talan's mother Mrs. Gwynek and they learn that Talan has a rare disease. Further, the government wants her lands to dispose nuclear waste and her husband has recently died in car accident. Soon Eric discloses that the death of Mr. Gwynek was suspicious and Pistor was in charge of...

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Plot Keywords:

supernatural power | bare chested male | murder | fourth of july | written by director | 

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Genres:

Action | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong horror violence, gruesome images and language

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook

Country:

USA

Language:

English French

Release Date:

19 August 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Wer

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$860,940

Company Credits

Production Co:

FilmDistrict, Incentive Filmed Entertainment, Prototype

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Filming for Wer began in May 2012 in Bucharest, Romania, and William Brent Bell shot the movie concurrently with another project, The Vatican.

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Goofs

After the Initial Interview between the accused his solicitor, we then cut to the scene In the car. The guy who says his glasses were knocked off must have been mistaken, as they never get so much as moved during the scuffle.

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Connections

Featured in Bad Movie Beatdown: The Devil Inside (2013)

User Reviews

A great start. Subpar finish

This film started out as a very satisfying murder mystery film with a few jump scares to keep the viewers attention, which isn't really even needed because its very interesting. The performances of the actors were great in the first half but didn't last with the exception of Simon Quarterman who plays Gavin in the film, he's a great throughout. But as I stated the last 40 minutes of the film were a let down to me. The film becomes a pretty generic found footage-esque slasher flick that isn't as interesting or unique as the team trying to figure out who or what did what was done like the premise in the first half.

Overall Id give the first half a 8/10 And the second half 5/10

First review I tried to be as vague as possible about the plot of the movie.