Not a Stephen King adaptation! My initial notes say: "as a horror-comedy from 2021, there's no way this will have practical [werewolf] effects." I believe I was mistaken but as there were hardly any werewolves, it was a little difficult to tell.
A new Forest Service ranger comes to a small town for a new job. It's a quirky small town, of course, with very few, very quirky townspeople. There's conflict already: a gas company wants to run a line through town and some people want the money the gas company has, while some are opposed to the pipeline; there's also a wealthy couple (Cheyenne Jackson and Harvey Guillen) who have moved in wanting to change things; and the local inn owner's husband is cheating on her. The ranger does befriend a manic pixie dream postal carrier, played by Milana Vayntrub (the AT&T girl), and she is super cute and charming. Once all this is established, something knocks the power out to the town, destroys everyone's back-up generators and starts killing people and small dogs. Oh, and it's a full moon.
More from my notes: "Is this going to be the kind of movie where we don't get to see anything [like kills]? Halfway through: YEP." And "[b]ig body count in the las half but where are the fucking werewolves?"
Well, we did get a werewolf at the end - and it was pretty evident who it was since almost everyoen else was dead. This is a cute and moderately entertaining movie but other than some blood and guts, not scary in the least. And not exactly what I had been hoping for. Sigh. Have I already seen all the good werewolf movies?
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