In this undistinguished Stephen King horror adaptation, the good residents of Tarker's Mill are dense enough to ignore or explain away a series of violent deaths until a little boy is torn to pieces while flying his kite after dark. At that point, the men gang up and go into the fog-shrouded woods to hunt down whatever slasher is out there. The most they achieve is the sighting of one hairy arm and a few more sacrificial victims. But life goes on, and when the summer fireworks show is cancelled because people have deduced it might be fatal to stay out after dark, the Coslaw family's invalid, wheelchair-bound son Marty goes coasting off to the bridge to shoot his own fireworks. Needless to say, the hairy killer beast that is certain to be lurking there gets shot in the eyeball by one of Marty's rockets and is now an unhappy hairy killer beast. Even when a respected town biggie starts wearing an eyepatch, no one really takes notice. They must not watch many horror films. Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Genre: Horror
- Category Creature Film
- Theme: Werewolves
- Studio: Paramount
- Run Time: 01 hr 34 min
- Edition: Special Edition
- Language: English, French
- Subtitle Language: English
- Picture Format: widescreen
- Format: DVD
- Release Date: May 28, 2002
- Lead Actor: Corey Haim, Megan Follows, Everett McGill, Terry O'Quinn, Gary Busey
- Supporting Actor: Lonnie Moore, Rick Pasotto, Myra Mailloux, Michael Lague, Julius Le Flore, David Hart, Sam Stoneburner, James Gammon, Conrad McLaren, Graham F. Smith, Paul Butler, Pearl Jones, Roxanne Aalam, Cassidy Eckert, Rebecca Fleming, Steven White, Tovah Feldshuh, Wendy Walker, William Brown, William Newman, Lawrence Tierney, Herb Harton, Robin Groves, Leon Russom, Bill Smitrovich, Joe Wright, Kent Broadhurst, Heather Simmons, James A. Baffico, Crystal Field
- Director: Daniel Attias
