While
on assignment in the jungles of Nepal,
photojournalist Ted Harrison (Michael
Pare) and his girlfriend are savagely
attacked by a hideous beast which tears
the woman to shreds and leaves Ted badly
mauled.
Later on he lives in the trailer next to
the house of his sister Janet (Mariel
Hemingway) as he has a hard time
adjusting to what has happened to him.
He goes out at night in the woods and not
returning till dawn and their family dog
Thor (Primo) is getting suspicious of
him.
People are getting slashed by a gigantic
creature at night and the police are
questioning Janet about these incidents.
It's nice to see a
decent werewolf film again.
It has quite good suspense and effects.
Too bad that it never made it to cinema's
as this one reminded me of earlier
vampire films like the Howling
and An American Werewolf in
London.
The acting is
good. Michael Pare gives a
thumbs up performance as a victim to a
werewolf and shows good troubled
reactions to his part in it.
Mariel Hemingway has a nice
sharp attitude to her character as a
lawyer and single Mom.
Mason Gamble is clever in his
role as a boy next door and really
delivers his character.
Supporting actor Hrothgar Matthews played
a nice goofball conman in the film as he
gives a horror film a nice touch by
adding some humor to it.
A woman
has her shirt unbuttoned with breasts
revealed.
Plenty of gore.
A person is torn up by a werewolf.
Werewolf's head is blown off with a
shotgun.
Plenty of blood too.
A conman's fingers are sliced off as well
as his throat slashed
A man is badly scarred in the woods
The directing is
very well done. Eric Red mainly
worked as a writer but is a promising
director with this piece.
There's a nice opening with people having
a bonfire camping and then Michael
Pare is making out with a beautiful
women and afterwards the werewolf slaying
happens. It's very fast paced which will
leave you in suspense of what is going to
happen in the story.
There's a comedic scene that involves
supporting actor Hrothgar Matthews when
he is approaching a german sheppard
played by Primo as you get the
feeling that the dog will attack him for
acting like a prowler of some sort.
Next we get a very powerful scene with
lead actress Mariel Hemingway
telling Matthews off and putting
him in his place and she acted very tough
while doing so.
There's a good camera shot on both Michael
Pare and Primo looking at
one another as there's a sign of no trust
on one anothers expressions as the dog
Primo did well and you can tell he was
well trained for this film.
There's a real strong moment when
Primo attacks Pare and
Hemingway trips out as she tries to
hold her dog back.
It's very dad and emotional when the dog
is sent to the pound and seeing child
actor Mason Gamble get very
emotional about it all as Red makes that
moment very effective.
Red directs Pare very
well at being firm and evil as well as
showing good evil expressions on his face
especially with the dialogue sequence
between him and Hemingway when Pare
slowly transforms into a werewolf in the
woods at night.
The music was
composed by Daniel Licht and has
some smooth classical music to the film
with violin playing and has composed
music for many other familiar horror
films like Children of the Night,
Children of the Corn 2 & 3,
Hellraiser: Bloodline
and Thinner.
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