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Finally, a horror movie from 1996 that feels like it came from 1984 and has something for everybody! From Eric Red (writer/co-writer of The Hitcher and Near Dark) comes... A film in which sex, bad special effects and gory death all occur in the first 5 minutes! A startling transition to a bucolic setting that has nothing to do with the first minutes! Mariel Hemingway playing a surprisingly feminist (for a film of this quality), well-rounded character! The best performance by a German Shepherd ever (he could be a good basis for another Monkey Shines debate on animal acting). His character’s name is Thor! He is the hero of the story! Michael Pare IS Mariel Hemingway’s brother who MAY BE a werewolf! Scenes that go on for a beat or 5 too long! Scenes that abruptly transition to the dog and the werewolf’s POV! Scenes in which characters (looking at you, guy in the forest who measures trees at night in the woods and ignores obvious signs of danger THREE TIMES IN A ROW, before getting wolf drool that looks like jizz dropped on him before being spectacularly murdered!) do STUPID, STUPID things! A movie that feels padded at 78 MINUTES!!! Here’s the trailer! Oh, and did I mention that the special effects look bad? Because they do not look good! Available for streaming on Shudder! Truly, this should be a Halloween classic, right up there with It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! And Pumpkinhead! Would also make an excellent double feature with Silver Bullet (1985). Love the trailer tag line, too: “It doesn’t have to be Halloween to be THIS scary.” Not 100 % sure if they’re referring to the holiday or the John Carpenter film.