Review – Bad Moon

Bad movie. This picture gets an automatic point or two from me just because it’s a werewolf flick. But then it turns right around and loses the points for placing a cute dog in jeopardy for almost the entire mercifully-short running time. The plot is tried and trite: innocent guy bitten by werewolf struggles to keep his affliction from harming his family. Only the family dog sees through uncle’s facade. As it turns out, the German Shepherd playing the “lead” has the widest range of emotions and highest talent level of any member of the cast. The film’s final flaw is that it spends way too much time dwelling on the creature effects. Every once in awhile a shot works, but for the most part the werewolf looks like a giant rubber possum with a bad case of dandruff. See if desperate