Wer (2013)

Chuck's best friend and the bassist of Eagles of Death Metal join us for a procedural law drama enhanced with a bit of the ol' lycanthropy. It opens with a home video, found-footage style, of a loving family being all ripped apart by an unseen force of violence. This is the foundation of the criminal investigation and legal defense that is run mostly by Americans despite taking place in France. At least all of the Americans speak French, so it's not completely absurd. It's also self-aware, and spends a little time half-assing a partial explanation about why nobody in the French legal team is French.

Based only on the surviving woman's report of seeing hairy hands, the police have arrested a very large, hairy, Romanian man who lives on a farm nearby. He was assigned a defense attorney, who puts together a crack legal team of Chuck's pal and her ex-boyfriend, and gets to work on building a case. The cops keep him shackled like a monster.

Significant portions are filmed in found-footage style, even when that makes no sense, or shown from TV cameras or security cameras or any other alternate viewpoint they can use to avoid just shooting normal scenes like normal people. Sometimes we're looking through the viewfinder of a DSLR camera, or watching the screen of a laptop. Very often, we're watching TV news footage.

The monster's mom explains that he has some unknown genetic condition, which somehow implies he is actually unable to murder people. The legal team figure out which rare disease that might be, and start arranging to have him tested for it.

The lawyer's ex-boyfriend gets scratched in an accidental skirmish with the monster, instigated entirely by the French police. It starts making him ill. At the same time, he and Chuck's buddy have a bunch of jealousy-fueled spats. These spats fail to really develop the characters or be relevant to the outcome.

In a third and almost entirely unnecessary side plot, they introduce a conflict of interest by arguing that the head detective has been trying to bully or bribe this family to sell their family farm for years. This really does nothing except offer a convoluted explanation for why the police are behaving so incompetently, but that could have just been left to regular old… incompetence.

The test to prove his disease goes awry and turns him into a rampaging murder werewolf. It seems it was a misdiagnosis. He smashes all of the doctors' heads in and King Kongs his way to the top of an office building, where he nonchalantly crushes an entire SWAT team and then leaps out of the high-rise, landing unharmed, and jogs off into the woods.

Everybody goes to his family home, including the lawyers for some inexplicable reason. They find him, and discover he is bulletproof, but manage to capture him. Everyone starts driving back to town with the injured werewolf in a long caravan of cars.

For some reason, they left the ex-boyfriend behind in the cabin. His scratch gets out of control, he wolfs out, and he bashes the monster's mother's head in.

The original wolf escapes into a field and kills Chuck's pal by ripping his jaw right off.

The ex-boyfriend wolf suddenly shows up and they have a wolf battle, the French cops refusing to help anyone in any way.

Finally, at the last moment, the French cops shoot the lawyer instead, both werewolves escape, and Europe descends into madness. This is maybe because of that evil-cop-wants-the-land subplot, or maybe not, and either way they all seem incompetent. After missing, the cops don't even continue shooting at the werewolves.