The movie opens with Robert Bridgestone ( Kerwin Mathews), a divorced father, taking his son Richie ( Scott Sealey) to the family mountain cabin where during a moonlit hike through the woods they are attacked by a werewolf and during the struggle, Robert is bitten, but the monster falls backwards into a ravine and is impaled on a wooden fence, causing him to revert back to his human form, this allows Robert to go into full-on denial as to what he had encountered and this attitude is the basic thrust for the rest of the film. Juran had directed a movie with a similar werewolf themed story, sadly, he wasn’t working off of something written by the Master of Horror, instead, he had a script that belonged in the made-for-television arena and that’s if we’re being generous. In 1983 Stephen King released a short novel called “Cycle of the Werewolf” which was about a boy who believed there was a werewolf in his community while others decidedly did not, and this book was later turned into a film called Silver Bullet, and while that premise may be familiar to many fans of horror very few realize that a decade earlier Nathan H.
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