As life goes on in a small town, a sheriff trying to find what happened to his wife's mysterious disappearance years ago is disturbed when a slew of similar disappearances and deaths occur to the locals around him and sets out to find the cause of everything before the town is killed.
This was a highly disappointing and underwhelming genre effort. Among the few good features here is a solid and enjoyable starting point that manages to provide the kind of instigating factor for the investigation. With the whole affair starting with the wife's attack in the car that he has no way of preventing and featuring the kind of small-town hospitality years after to keep him in the job to catch the criminal responsible which becomes quite topical with the current attacks on townsfolk, the ability to build up a solid whodunnit mystery over the series of crimes being committed in the town makes for a fine setup here. Realizing it's a werewolf and starting to prepare for the occasion with some solid defensive tactics to protect the rest of the town as the final attacks are decent if not spectacular efforts with the low-budget limitations here keeping this one intriguing enough as it goes along. There are so many issues here beyond that as those low-budget limitations are at the center of it all. The fact that the budget here never allows for any kind of genuine attacks to take place on-screen where so many of them are based on a person reacting to being approached by a grunting, growling figure in a tinted vision to indicate something is happening but then switches to the aftermath to see what happened to the victim. This removes any potential suspense or action from the film not having any genuine genre fare present here, and with everything being wrapped in a low-budget haze of flimsy production values, special effects, and utterly nonsensical storylines for what's going on with so much of the film trying to paint him as the culprit it's hard to get invested in anything the film has a lot of issues.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.
