In 1974, a secret operation brings back werewolf blood from Eastern Europe. One of the agents injects himself with it, becoming a lycanthrope, but is shot with silver bullets and frozen by his boss (Barry Bostwick). In present day, Doctor Anne De Carlo (Kim Delaney) and a team of scientists researching artificial metal blood, are given the frozen corpse to work on. After grafting on metal skin, they remove the silver bullets.
Why would someone want to put metal skin on a werewolf? Isn’t a werewolf tough enough as is? But then, I’m a little lost on why someone would want a werewolf for the army. Sure, they’re pretty good at killing, but aren’t armies more successful when they are under the control of someone? Werewolves aren’t. Really, there aren’t any decisions made in Project: Metalbeast that makes sense. People ignore the danger of the werewolf when it has already killed people. A guy injects himself with the monster’s blood. Then there is the whole “metal skin for burn victims” thing. Metal would be pretty low on my list of choices for flesh.
An unnecessary addition to werewolf lore, Project: Metalbeast isn’t unpleasant to watch. Bostwick is a properly twisted villain. Delaney is attractive. The werewolf suit could be a lot worse. And there’s some blood. Of course there’s more talking than killing (it’s cheaper to film).
I wouldn’t suggest looking for this, but if it happened to come on free TV after something you were watching, you could leave it on without undue pain.