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Wulf is an independent horror film written and directed by Chris Tempel. It is the first feature film from Chris' production company, STARS Pictures, and stars the great niece of Rita Hayworth, Ariel A. Cansino as the films protagonist, Tanya. The film was shot on MiniDV with three different consumer cameras and edited with Sony Vegas 7.

Plot
Wulf is the story of five teens who go camping after graduating from high school. At first, all is well. Soon though, mysterious boot tracks start showing up around their camp. After one of the girls disappears, the group goes off to look for her and stumble upon the camp belonging to a mountain man named Wulf. He offers to help the teens find their friend, but it's starting to get late, so it'll have to wait until morning. The teens decide to find their friend on their own, venturing off into darkness. One by one, the teens are hunted and killed by Wulf, who reveals himself to not only be a killer, but a cannibal as well.

Pre Production
Wulf started out as a short film that was meant to be a take on the story, Little Red Riding Hood. After the short film placed third at a film festival, Chris Tempel decided to base his first feature on his short. To prepare for the feature length version, Chris also wrote a shot a short sequel called Wulf II: The Feeding Continues. Both of the short films featured a group of unknown actors, led by Jon Jordan, a veteran of theater work. Casting was completed long before the feature script was ever written. The director cast people he knew and met while working at a haunted house. The script for Wulf was written over a three month time frame, mostly during the director's breaks at a job catching shoplifters. Once it was finished, the two lead female actors had to drop out due to prior commitments. Those two roles were filled by responses from an internet ad on craigslist.com.

Production
Wulf was shot over the course of 11 days from five in the afternoon to midnight. The troubles on the movie didn't end with casting. On the second day of shooting, the director's camera broke down, forcing him to borrow his parent's video camera. All the actors provided their own wardrobe and performed their own stunts. The film was lit using only the prop lanterns that the actors carried or the light from campfires, if available. Most shots were captured in one take, often times with the director telling the actors what to do as they recorded.

Post Production
Almost immediately after the film was edited, the hard drive containing all the raw footage crashed and forced the director to have to re-digitize all seven hours of footage and start editing again from scratch. Once the picture was locked, anyone with a speaking role came over to Chris' apartment to re-record their dialogue, due to the lack of clean audio on set. The next nine months were spent syncing the new audio up with the film, as well as recording and syncing all the sound effects in the film. The music was composed by a high school friend of the director, Mark W. Richardson.

Reception
Both fans and non fans of the horror genre have cited that they enjoyed the film's originality and compelling story. A red band trailer was released for the film on trailerspy.com. In less than a month, the trailer had over 500 hits, prompting the director to start writing a sequel, before the first film was ever released. Currently, Wulf is seeking distribution.