To my chagrin, I discovered the majority was utter crapola-and I wasn't suprised, of course.Īlthough the rumor of a werewolf roaming the town of Elkton, WI has been well documented (hey, the Internet pulls up a lot of neato stuff), the concocted story of this flick is pure extrapolation. Maybe it would have made the experience a more enjoyable one, constantly wondering how much was based on fact and how much was fabrication. Maybe I should have kept the facade of mystery and intrigue of the TRUE STORY throughout the movie. That, friends and neighbors, may have been a mistake.
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As a result, with the benefit of the pause button, I took myself out of the movie to search for info on this amazing true story of people being killed and eaten by a werewolf in the wilds of Wisconsin. "Hey!" thought I, "Maybe they are TRUE stories, ripped from the local Wisconsin papers!" After all, they did say it was based on a TRUE STORY!įifteen minutes later, the flick was starting to drag a bit with the introduction of all the characters (including the local sherrif/obvious hero, the hot bartender, the local animal expert, and the local bad boys featured in the opening scene) and the newspaper clippings from the credits were still on my mind. The credits then roll over newspaper reports of sightings of the Beast of Bray Road. The gore of the first killing is pretty extreme (the stranded motorist is mauled across her face and then torn in two-replete with spilling entrails-after being briefly stalked through the woods in a rather tense scene.
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In true paint-by-numbers horror movie style, she will obviously be the first victim of (dramatic pause) The Beast of Bray Road! Yes, her cars stalls, and not soon after said beast rips her to shreds.ĭespite the laughable acting (or lack thereof) of the aforementioned locals, the movie still had my full attention. We are then introduced in the first scene to more than a few of the local okels at a bar, one of whom drives off on her own. "Based on a true story," proclaims the film at the beginning in ominous red letters. Synopsis from the distributor: Based on actual accounts of werewolf sightings in Walworth County, Wisconsin, the film follows a local sheriff who is finally forced to accept that a string of horrifying deaths is linked to a predator which possesses DNA of both man and wolf.
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