Crew
Director – Mark Polonia, Screenplay – Tyger Torrez, Story Idea – Ford Austin, Producers – Ford Austin, David S. Sterling & Tim Yasui, Photography – Paul Steele, Musical Arrangements – Cleopatra Records, Werewolf Created by Josh Wasylink. Production Company – Sterling Entertainment/Polonia Bros. Entertainment.
Cast
Brice Kennedy (Jack), Jamie Morgan (Vanida), Cody Losinger (Slash), Greta Volkova (Tiffany), Addison Turner (Dirk), Tim Hatch (Allister), Ken Van Sant (Sheriff Duke Lawson), Titus Himmelberger (Gangster), Noyes J. Lawton (Jones), Alyssa Page (Nicky), Jeff Kirkendall (Andrew), James Carolus (Hunter), Michael Korotitsch (Uber Driver), Marie DeLorenzo (Car Victim)
Plot
Jack is trying to get back to the city for a business meeting when his Uber driver makes a stop at a gas station. Out the back of the station, a werewolf has just killed a drug dealer and his contact. Jack is attacked by the werewolf and flees after grabbing several bags of cocaine that had been dropped during the drug deal. Bitten, Jack takes the cocaine as he begins to transform. Meanwhile, a low-budget horror film is shooting nearby. Jack is found unconscious by two of the actresses and brought back to recover but there transforms into the werewolf again.
Twin brothers Mark and John Polonia, who hail from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, gained recognition for their ultra-low-budget films, beginning in the 1980s when they were in their teens. John passed away from an aneurism in 2008 but Mark has continued on his own putting out a substantial body of genre works with over a hundred films to his name at current count. (A full list of the Polonia films is at the bottom of the page).
The mainstream released Cocaine Bear (2023) was a modest hit. It was based on a real-life incident where a bear ingested a haul of cocaine. In reality, the bear was killed by the drugs, but the film was happy to make up its own story and have the bear running around attacking people while high. This seems to have given inspiration to a host of low-budget filmmakers. Mark Polonia previously made Cocaine Shark (2023), while Dustin Ferguson, another ultra-low-budget director, made Cocaine Cougar (2023), while around the same time there several other drug-affected animal films with Cocaine Crabs from Outer Space (2022), Methgator (2023), Crackcoon (2024) and Cocaine Roaches (2025).
As is fairly much expected from Mark Polonia, Cocaine Werewolf is a pitifully made film. As Jamie Morgan says at one point, in reference to the low-budget film being shot, “This film really is a shit show.” This unfortunately comes uncomfortably close to the truth – Cocaine Werewolf, the film she appears in, is a really shit show. There are some crappy werewolf effects, although at least we do get a full werewolf suit rather than some of the abysmal visual effects that appear in Polonia’s shark films. What looks fairly lame are the repeated werewolf attack scenes where we see fake blood being squirted across the camera lens.
There is even less plot than usual for a Polonia film – and that is saying something. The title suggests the hilarious possibilities of a cocaine-snorting werewolf but that is the one thing we don’t get. There is a businessman (Brice Kennedy) who gets bitten by the werewolf. In what makes the title feel like a cheat, the businessman also snorts cocaine but that seems to be stretching the idea of a ‘cocaine werewolf’. It is hard to tell if the drugs accelerate the businessman’s lycanthropic condition or not – we get cutaways to pulsating engorged veins and a heart – least of all any explanation for how it does.
The rest of Cocaine Werewolf is various people running around a field and woods and some scenes with a film crew trying to shoot an ultra low-budget film. When we wander onto the set of the film, there is another whole amusing level where Polonia gives the actors lines carping at the familiar problems of a low-budget film where it almost seems like he is on the verge of spoofing his own genre, but really Cocaine Werewolf is never that clever.
The two girls, Greta Volkova and Polonia regular Jamie Morgan, give wooden performances. Some of the dialogue they have about mutual attraction and the use of pronouns is incredibly stilted. Morgan in particular is a bad actress, never more so than when she tries to give her lines some emphasis.
The Polonia Brothers films are Hallucinations (1986), the Polonia Brothers, who were then only eighteen years old, went on to make a series of horror films that became legendary for their cheapness. Over the next two decades, the two put out the likes of Splatter Farm (1987), Hellspawn (1993), Saurians (1994), How to Slay a Vampire (1995), Feeders (1996), Night Crawlers (1996), Bad Magic (1998), Terror House (1998), Feeders 2: Slay Bells (1998), Blood Red Planet (2000), The House That Screamed (2000), Hellgate: The House That Screamed 2 (2001), Dweller (2002), Gorilla Warfare: Battle for the Apes (2002), Night Thirst (2002), Holla If I Kill You (2003), Among Us (2004), Dinosaur Chronicles (2004), Peter Rottentail (2004), Preyalien: Alien Predators (2004), Black Mass (2005), Razorteeth (2005), Splatter Beach (2007), Wildcat (2007), Forest Primeval (2008) and Monster Movie (2008). John died of a heart aneurism in 2008. Since then, Mark Polonia has continued on as a solo director, making the likes of HalloweeNight (2009), E.V.E. of Destruction (2011), Empire of the Apes (2013), Camp Blood First Slaughter (2014), Amityville Death House (2015), Channel 13 (2015), Death Reel (2015), Jurassic Prey (2015), Bigfoot vs Zombies (2016), Sharkenstein (2016), Amityville Exorcism (2017), It Kills (2017), Land Shark (2017), Revolt of the Empire of the Apes (2017), Alien Surveillance (2018), BattleBots (2018), Frozen Sasquatch (2018), Ghost of Camp Blood (2018), Bride of the Werewolf (2019), Deadly Playthings (2019), Amityville Island (2020), Children of Camp Blood (2020), Return to Splatter Farm (2020), Shark Encounters of the Third Kind (2020), Camp Murder (2021), Dune World (2021), Invasion of the Empire of the Apes (2021), Noah’s Shark (2021), Sister Krampus (2021), Virus Shark (2021), Amityville in Space (2022), Doll Shark (2022), Feeders 3: The Final Meal (2022), House Squatch (2022), Reel Monsters (2022), Sharkula (2022), Saurians (2022), Cocaine Shark (2023), Jurassic Shark 3: Seavenge (2023), Motorboat (2023), Revenge of the Empire of the Apes (2023), R.I.P. Van Winkle Part 2 (2023), R.I.P. Van Winkle Part 3 (2023), Saurians 2 (2023), Yule Log (2023), Camp Blood: Clown Shark (2024), The Girl Wore Yellow Lace (2024), Jurassic Exorcist (2024), The Last Chainsaw Massacre (2024), Mummy Shark (2024), Once Upon a Time in Amityville (2024), One Million Babes B.C. (2024), Pandasaurus (2024), The Stalking (2024), Teddiscare (2024), Battle Beyond Mars (2025), Cape Cod Cthulhu (2025), The Final Possession (2025), Four Nights in Fear Forest (2025), Harvest of Eyes (2025), Robocidal (2025), Trail Cam Sasquatch (2025), Amityville Rex (2026), Dummy (2026), Shocktopus (2026) and You’re All Doomed (2026).
(Winner in this site’s Worst Films of 2024 list).
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