On the plus side: as I was watching, I recognized an overhead canyon road shot - "Is that Little Cottonwood Canyon?" - and a ski lift shot - "Is that Solitude?" - and when I checked, The Wolf of Snow Hollow was indeed filmed on location in Utah, mostly in Kamas. So that's cool! On the negative side: almost* everything else.
Let me quote from the Netflix DVD sleeve:
A small town cop, struggling with a failed marriage, a rebellious daughter and a lackluster team of officers, is tasked with solving a series of brutal murders that are occuring on the full moon. As he's consumed by the hunt for the killer, he struggles to remind himself that there's no such thing as werewolves ...
Boy howdy - struggle is right. This is a tiny indie film ($2,000,000 budget; $186,026 box office (which certainly wasn't helped by a 2020 release)) but sometimes tiny indie films (The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity, etc.) are fantastic so it wasn't the lack of money. This was Robert Forster's last film and he was actually pretty good; Riki Lindhome was another bright spot. But writer/director/lead actor Jim Cummings needs (a) acting lessons, (b) directing lessons and (c) screenwriting lessons. Other than Forster and Lindhome, the acting was terrible. The editing was awkward and confusing. The music choices were sometimes so bizarre that I wondered if this was supposed to be a horror comedy; even after watching it and reading several reviews, I still don't know: parts were laughable but it certainly wasn't funny. This was one of the longest 82ish minutes of my life.
* I definitely appreciated the practical werewolf effects - I am such a sucker for dudes in wolf suits! And the poster is really great.
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