Fun things to do in Kirkland tonight, number one: Seeing the Spanish werewolf comedy at the Kirkland Performance Center.

Game of Werewolves makes its third and final SIFF appearance at 9:00 p.m., and it’s shaping up to be one of the liveliest, most fun festival surprises from this corner. It tells the story of Tomas (Gorka Otxoa), a struggling writer who visits his rural hometown of Arga after a twenty-year estrangement. He’s been invited back by the townspeople under the pretense of a celebration in his honor.

But Tomas is the last of a cursed family’s bloodline, and his former neighbors are convinced that his death on the centenary of the village curse is the only way to eradicate the werewolf that’s been plaguing Arga lo, these many years.

It’s lazy to compare it to Shaun of the Dead, but like that horror-comedy classic, Game of Werewolves references classic horror tropes, hurtles its likable characters into a terrifying scenario, and watches them react in often-humorous ways. Fortunately, writer/director Juan Martinez Moreno’s definitely created (pardon the pun) his own animal.

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