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The story open as Ted Harrison (Michael Parй) photojournalist is in Africa on assignment
when he and his girlfriend are attacked by a werewolf. Fighting for there survival, Ted
is ravaged on the shoulder as his lady friend is dealt a rather gory little demise at the
claws of this towering creature. Back in the states, Ted hiding his now deadly secret
contacts his sister Janet (Mariel Hemingway) and his nephew Bret (Mason Gamble) after
a lengthy period of no communication upon his return. Ted moves down to say with his
sister has local authorities are searching for the killer of 5 hikers in his area, and fears
that his secret will be told. While trying to come to grips of his sister now possibly
being his next victim, Ted starts to blame the grizzly slayings on another possibility
and even starts to act as if his nephew’s pet German Sheppard Thor could be the
cause. As the rampage continues Janet and Bret are forced in to survival mode do to
the witness of Bret’s changing. Taking a different view towards the ending, we find
the hero being the Sheppard Thor and not the typical silver bullet we have all grown
to expect.
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Ever heard of finding a needle in a hay stack? Well that is one way to describe this
little overlooked gem of furry goodness. This K9 by night number was purchased by
yours truly in the tossed and forgotten bin at my local record movie hut and could not
have been a better find. Plain and simple character acting along with the story makes
this a great Saturday afternoon pic or a come over to my place and watch a movie
date film. The nice not to over the top scenes of gore caps the scenes with what a
werewolf should look like man beast brining terror to the Great Pacific Northwest.
The film is nicely down and holds the scenes of gore to a minimum, but does have
some tasteful decapitations, skull crunches, and dismemberments which help this
werewolf tale sore in a slick cool way. Also the design of the beast is how a werewolf
should look, 7+ feet tall, drooling, just plain no holds bared animal horrific. The fact
that nontraditional actions, where taken in this telling as have been done many times
before, such as no silver bullet, and every night Ted turned into a werewolf, not just
when the moon was full. Another plus for this film was a little hint of a horror fan
making a film was the confronting of Ted with his nephew Bret as he watched
Universal’s classic Werewolf of London (1935) on TV and started to discuss the ways of
the werewolf which was actually quoted in Universal’s Wolfman (1941) not Werewolf
Of London.
A plus for any collection, and one that should be watched numerous times.
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