just watch it!

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

I first accidentally saw this movie when I was 9 and I liked this movie ever since. It has the best werewolf design I've ever seen and the main character in this film is a German Shepherd (my favorite dog breed). It might not be the scariest werewolf flick out there, but it is enjoyable. If u want to see a film where a large, smart and powerful dog fights a paranormal shape-shifting creature like the werewolf, then this is the film for you of If u want just wanted to watch a horror film that won't make you sick or scare the absolute crap out of you then I highly recommend this.

As a dog owner, I'm disgusted with how the Shepherd's behavior is shown in this movie. Even more so, the dog is super annoying with his scripted "human-like intelligence".A dog is never as smart as a human and a dog seeing open shackles laying on the ground and promptly turning tails and running is just laughable stupid.The dog doesn't behave. Not even a bit. Allowing him to jump up the door or other people is a very bad habit and shouldn't be tolerated from the owner.Having to call the Shepherd over and over without him reacting is even worse. A dog refusing to obey is a dominant alpha and not a family pet. Even more so, "Thor" wasn't protecting his flock, he terrorized it. He did what he wanted (because the dog was the boss) and that's going to end up very dangerous with a real family in real life. When will Hollywood start hiring writers who actually have a pet and know how it has to be trained to be a good family companion, and, even better, when will they stop humanizing animals behavior-wise? I was actually relieved when "Thor" was taken away. And I would've loved to smack the brat one over his ears. What a snotty, unpleasant kid.The movie itself was boring and mostly frustrating due to the pesky dog and the ill mannered sister. Rummaging around someone else's property, even if it's the brother, is really bad. If that would've happened to me, I would be seriously offended.The werewolf tricks weren't really that good, tbh. And the story was uneventful and lame.

This movie is a wonderful example of 90s monster horror. had I seen this movie when it first came out, I would of been scared poop-less(granted I would of only been 8) but seeing it nearly 20 years later its comes in at pretty campy. The Acting: Out of the two stars I give for acting. it receives one 1. Convincing. Not award winning.Plot: Out of the three stars I give for plot, this earned 2. Believable. Entertaining. But not too original.Special Effects: The special effects are pretty good for 1996. No use of CGI gives the movie the feel that I think helps it stand the test of time. Even though I do not believe it meets my standard to get the star in SFX

First off, this movie is BAD. If you're attempting to work through the entire horror section of your local Blockbuster, feel free to give this one a pass. Even if you're a big fan of werewolf movies (as I am), there are better ones to be had, such as American Werewolf in Paris, or even Cursed with Christina Ricci.On to the movie! For starters, the acting in this is horrible - I didn't care a whit for anyone in it, and was puzzling throughout the whole thing why it took them so long to suspect the brother. He acted odd as soon as he reached their house to stay, and by the time they were sitting down to dinner after Thor (the German Sheperd) was taken away, he was acting like a serial killer, only minus the charisma. The lines the kid had were trite and pathetic, and perhaps it was just me, but I found the mother's eyebrows to be quite distracting - they were abnormally dark for the hair color, and screamed "Bad dye job! Bleach me please!". One would think that was a small thing, but watch and see - the camera seems to focus on them throughout the movie, and it was truly distracting. To sum up the acting, perhaps it was the screen writer's fault, but one could pretty much predict what they were going to say a mile off, and I was pretty much hoping for a 'rocks fall, everyone dies' ending by say, the middle of the movie. Best actor was the dog who played Thor, hands down.Scare factor for this movie? 2/10. I tend to jump during scary movies, and though I felt a small bit of unease throughout the thing, there was no point where I even flinched. It's just "Oh, there's the werewolf again, whoopee." And when I say 'unease', don't think the feeling of overwhelming malice in awesome Japanese horror movies, it was a very tiny fraction of that. Personally, there were a small handful of scenes where body parts/gore were seen, and there was a stupid and pointless sex scene in the first 10 minutes (And wow, you get to see a NIPPLE, dude! Booobs!) - thus, I fail to see why this wasn't given a PG-13 rating. If a kid over 10 or 11 sees this, they're not going to be scarred for life, trust.F/X? Well, definitely not as bad as The Howling, but not really anything to write home about, either. The initial werewolf we see in the Amazon looks HORRIBLE. I'd expect to see something like that in a b-movie 70's flick. I will give a bit more credit to the transformation scene much later in the movie, (where the sister discovers her brother is the werewolf) which at least made me stop and examine it, and finally give a nod of faint approval. Definitely not the most realistic thing I've ever seen, but there was a part close to the end of it where his head is all misshapen that made me raise my eyebrows in surprise.I also had to add a more personal bit about the emotional impact of this movie, or the lack thereof. I felt bad for none of the people who were killed - there was a logger doing a survey that got whacked before we found anything about him (after ignoring the alarming sounds of a large predator nearby, Darwin at work here), and a pointless fraud who provoked Thor in an attempt to sue the family who was killed later off-screen. Apparently there were 5 or 6 hikers/logging people who were also killed when the brother was out at the lake in his Airstream. The most horrible point in the movie was where Thor was being taken away by animal control, I really felt for his attempts to get back to his family and protect him from the Bad Person among them. Everybody acts in a manner that screams "Stop doing stupid things!", and wow, am I tired of seeing that in horror movies!I found out this movie was (loosely) based on a book, so perhaps that explains why it's so bad. Apparently, most of the family was cut out (2 kids, a cat, and a father, the latter of which I was wondering the story behind throughout the movie), and the book was from the viewpoint of Thor. Sounds like this is another one where you should read the book, and skip the movie - I know I'll be hunting down the book, myself, though it may be a small chore, since it appears to be out of print. I read a short summary for it, and it positively screams to me that all the interesting bits were hacked out for no particular reason.