A werewolf is roaming the neighbourhood ... and there's no question
who's the werewolf, it's teenaged Jacob (Alexander Le Bas), and his dad
Michael (Bill Oberst jr) knows it, and dad's best friend Douglas (Peter Le
Bas) knows it as well. So they do the only sensible thing, getting him out
of town every full moon to tie him to a tree every full moon, so he can't
do any killing. Sadly enough, daddy and friend sometimes slip up, so only
recently Jacob has escaped for the night and killed one of their best
friends ... so this time around, Douglas just waits for a chance to shoot
Jacob dead - not out of malice but out of fear of course -, but Michael
just won't let him, and in the fight that ensues, the exactly worst thing
happens: Jacob escapes ... A rather original take on the
werewolf genre as it looks upon the basic werewolf story with all of its
classic rules intact in a rather unusual way and - without getting
academic or heavy-handed or far-fetched - asks some interesting questions
... while still deliver all the scares expected of a movie of its ilk and
carried by strong performances and great atmospheric filmmaking. Pretty
good, really.
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