Kevin C. Wong

Movie - Werewolves Within (2021) [+]

Werewolves Within is a comedy horror film based on a video game. In a remote American town just before a big snowstorm Finn (Sam Richardson) is the new park ranger who is very earnest and friendly and self-doubting. He quickly befriends the mail carrier Cecily (Milana Vayntrub), also new to town, and together they start investigating a murder.

But not just any sort of murder. Some creature clawed one of the townspeople to death and then destroyed all the various home gas generators. As a snowstorm forces everyone to bunker up at the local boarding house it seems that someone in town may be a werewolf perhaps trying to stop a deal that would allow a new oil pipeline through town.

Suspects are plentiful from the newcomers, including an activist scientist, to those for and against the pipeline, to the businessman who owns the oil company and even the mountain man loner living at the edge of town. As people die it's all Finn can do to keep everyone calm and keep them from killing each other while trying to find the werewolf...

It's a fairly well done film: good acting, cinematography and story. Fairly low budget and released during the pandemic so didn't do well at the box office. But I think it would have done fairly well on a normal year.