(There are Spoilers) formula TV movie about a werewolf terrorizing a bayou community, Marsh Island, who turns out to be one of it's most respected citizens. David Jassen as the barley awake Sheriff Aaron Whitaker has his work cut out for him in tracking down this ruthless killer who seems to appear and disappear in and out of thin air.
At first thinking that the brutal slashing and dismemberment of Ellie Barrifors was the work of a pack of wild dogs in and around the bayou Sheriff Whitaker has a posse rustled up to track down and shoot the canine killers. But later when the unseen killer breaks into the local jail-house and tears to pieces Whitaker's deputy Ted, Robert Phillips, and Ellie's hot-headed brother Larry ,Geoffrey Lewis, that Whitaker, and the local townspeople realize that he has a psycho on the loose with the strength of an 800 pound gorilla.
It takes a while for the people of Marsh Island to figure out what's happening with the "hairy one" covering up his tracks and causing the entire population to hide in their homes with the doors and windows locked shut. We later learn that the killer is "one of us" but with a sever Blackwater Fever condition that causes him to grow hair and fangs and go out in the woods and bayous hunting for human flesh. Even though we see a number of times in the film the sight of a full moon it doesn't doesn't really have any effect on the killer one way or another as he seems to become a wolf-man not because of it but because of his lack of medication.
We finally get a chance to see this wolf-man when he reveals himself while in the hospital for his, among his many other medical problems, sinus condition that caused him to pass out at the smell of burning sulfur. The wolf-man wrecks the entire place and takes off into the woods for some fresh and clean air to relieve his sinuses. Coming back home, to his palatial estate, for the grand final the killer werewolf gets himself killed by what seems like the only person in town who isn't at all interesting in killing him! But the only person who has the power, with him planting in her room the gun with the blessed silver bullets, to do it.
The only thing that turned me off about "Moon of the Wolf" is the depiction of the werewolf himself who was about as scary as any of the characters on Sesame Street. Looking like someone who didn't shave for two weeks with a 1950's greaser-like hairstyle. It would have been much better to keep the werewolf, like in the first half of the movie, in the shadows for the entire movie and let the audiences imagination run wild to what he looks like. Instead of having him reveal himself and showing just how comical looking he really is.
At first thinking that the brutal slashing and dismemberment of Ellie Barrifors was the work of a pack of wild dogs in and around the bayou Sheriff Whitaker has a posse rustled up to track down and shoot the canine killers. But later when the unseen killer breaks into the local jail-house and tears to pieces Whitaker's deputy Ted, Robert Phillips, and Ellie's hot-headed brother Larry ,Geoffrey Lewis, that Whitaker, and the local townspeople realize that he has a psycho on the loose with the strength of an 800 pound gorilla.
It takes a while for the people of Marsh Island to figure out what's happening with the "hairy one" covering up his tracks and causing the entire population to hide in their homes with the doors and windows locked shut. We later learn that the killer is "one of us" but with a sever Blackwater Fever condition that causes him to grow hair and fangs and go out in the woods and bayous hunting for human flesh. Even though we see a number of times in the film the sight of a full moon it doesn't doesn't really have any effect on the killer one way or another as he seems to become a wolf-man not because of it but because of his lack of medication.
We finally get a chance to see this wolf-man when he reveals himself while in the hospital for his, among his many other medical problems, sinus condition that caused him to pass out at the smell of burning sulfur. The wolf-man wrecks the entire place and takes off into the woods for some fresh and clean air to relieve his sinuses. Coming back home, to his palatial estate, for the grand final the killer werewolf gets himself killed by what seems like the only person in town who isn't at all interesting in killing him! But the only person who has the power, with him planting in her room the gun with the blessed silver bullets, to do it.
The only thing that turned me off about "Moon of the Wolf" is the depiction of the werewolf himself who was about as scary as any of the characters on Sesame Street. Looking like someone who didn't shave for two weeks with a 1950's greaser-like hairstyle. It would have been much better to keep the werewolf, like in the first half of the movie, in the shadows for the entire movie and let the audiences imagination run wild to what he looks like. Instead of having him reveal himself and showing just how comical looking he really is.