Memorable, crazy movie

Highly Overrated But Still Good

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

"Moon of the Wolf" its painfully mediocre, it offers nothing new to the genre, its not fun to watch (at least most of the time it isn't), and its also really dull.It has interesting elements, some of the characters are actually pretty decently written and the effects aren't too terrible but its mostly just boring and predictable. This could have been a very interesting and engaging werewolf movie but the fact that its a TV movie limits it, I suppose the novel its better.

I knew this was a made for TV movie about a werewolf and I still watched it so I only have myself to blame.For some reason I was expecting an action packed monster movie but what I got was more like Murder, She Wrote with a slightly younger male lead.Maybe a bit like Columbo with some In the Heat Of The Night thrown in the mix.Not an action hero chasing down and/or fighting a werewolf.This is my first David Janssen movie but for some reason I was expecting more from him.Watching him go around town questioning everyone is a bit lame.Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a terrible movie just not what I was expecting and definitely not the type of movie I would enjoy.While it's not bad for made for TV, there's really nothing here to see.BTW I knew which guy was the werewolf the first time he appeared on screen.

Moon of the Wolf (1972) ** (out of 4) After several locals are brutally murdered, a Louisiana sheriff (David Janssen) starts to wonder if there might be a werewolf at work. I guess I'm being a tad bit unfair when I say that's the "story" to this movie because the werewolf stuff really doesn't happen until the hour mark, which is an extremely long time considering this made-for-TV flick only clocks in at 73-minutes. Even at just 73-minutes this thing seems to run on and on and it really gets to the point where you're asking yourself what the filmmakers were thinking by making a movie like this. I've always had a love/hate relationship with this movie because on certain levels I enjoy it but at the same time had certain things been done better then the end result could have been so much better. One of the things that do work is the Louisiana swamp settings and this creates a certain atmosphere, which is just perfect for a werewolf movie. A werewolf running around in a redneck swamp could have been used so much better but at least the atmosphere is here. This atmosphere really reminded me of the Gothic horror films because they were more centered on the mood more than anything else. The problem with the picture is that the first hour pretty much just has the sheriff going around talking to people, asking various questions and the werewolf stuff doesn't come up till late. We don't even see the creature until the final portion of the film and even then we don't ever get any clear, good looks at it. I'm not sure if the filmmakers were afraid that they were going to scare kids that might be watching but whatever the reason for this decision it's a bad one. Janssen is good in the lead role of the sheriff and the supporting cast all fit their roles nicely as well. It's just really too bad that the film didn't take advantage of the locations and atmosphere and deliver a monster.

Fast moving TV movie about werewolf like killings in Louisiana David Jansen is the sheriff looking into the killings and the rest of the cast is filled out with B movie and TV regulars.A speedy 75 minutes thanks to being made when TV movies often ran 90 minutes the film doesn't feel bloated and moves along at a nice clip. This is one of the few TV movies from the early 1970's that have appeared on bargain video that actually is worth taking a look at. Is it the greatest thing since sliced bread, no but it is an okay time killer that plays well as a regular movie and not just as a TV one.6 out of 10