Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Given that there are so few decent werewolf horror movie lately(thanks a lot Twilight)I have found myself looking for older movie that i;ve missed over the years.Found this gem on the internet.Don't let the words made for TV movie dissuade you as it almost did me.This movie was a pleasant surprise.Essentially it's a small town murder mystery with a supernatural twist.Sort of In the heat of the night meets Kolchack the night stalker.great old school cast all around.The Fugitives David Janssen is perfect as the tough skeptical small town sheriff whose just trying to figure it all out.More suspenseful than i thought it would be for a 70's TV movie.Especially toward the end.A good watch for werewolf genre fans.

Moon Of The Wolf is a film about some really horrific killings in the Louisiana bayou country. Sheriff David Janssen has his hands full with three different killings, first a woman who looks like some wild animal gnawed at her for food. But the second two have the whole town scared. Janssen arrests Geoffrey Lewis for the first killing and someone ripped the iron bars off the cell door to get at him and killed a deputy sheriff guarding Lewis in the meantime.Nice atmosphere of the bayou country is achieved in this made for television film. Unfortunately the suspense is let out halfway through the film as we're given everything but an eyewitness testimony as to who the killer is. It's just that Janssen doesn't want to even conceive of the idea, much less the existence of a werewolf.Some of the rest of the cast includes Claudia McNeil who knows some home remedies to keep the wolf away, Barbara Rush and Bradford Dillman as a pair of rich descendants of the town's founding father and John Berardino as the town doctor. Fans of any and all of the players above will like Moon Of The Wolf.

This TV movie is set in the wilds of Louisiana, yet oddly aside from a few actors (such Royal Dano and Geoffrey Lewis), most of the cast spoke without a hint of a Cajun accent. In particular, David Janssen, Barbara Rush and Bradford Dillman (the leads) didn't sound the least bit convincing and I assume they were cast mostly because they were all prolific in TV movies. For example, Dillman appeared in such fare as "The Swarm", "Bug", "Piranha", "Demon, Demon", "Deliver Us From Evil" and "The Dark Secret of Harvest Home". So much for in-depth and complex casting decisions! The film is a werewolf film and while the audience can guess this from the beginning (hey, the title alone is a giveaway), it sure takes most of the folks in the film to realize that a series of brutal murders are the work of a lycanthrope. In the meantime, the Sheriff (Janssen) investigates and folks in the film start blaming wild dogs for the deaths.For the most part, there is nothing too surprising in the film. It's neither particularly bad nor particularly good---just the sort of cheap production you'd expect for a made for TV film. Competent acting, rather poor makeup and a story that occasionally violates the wolf-man cannon established in previous films. It's a decent time-passer but not all that much more.

I was pretty surprised by this backwoods bayou shocker. Murders start occurring in a little Louisiana town, and the sheriff's investigation points to signs of a werewolf on the loose. If you can suspend the fact that it's pretty obvious who the wolf is, this is a fun mystery. And in addition to the werewolf plot, we've got ideas of class-consciousness, romance, unwanted pregnancies, and small-town sleaze to ponder. The performances were decent and it moves along quickly. Werewolf completists, fans of David Jansen or Bradford Dillman (he was in EVERYTHING in the 70s), and Cajun-Gothic fans can all find something here. Although I can't believe NOBODY in a bayou town knew the world loup-garou, there are worse ways to spend an afternoon than watching "Moon of the Wolf."