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2003 - 76m.
USA-Canada

Brimstone Productions presents this anthology werewolf flick that has two separate segments directed by Alexandre Michaud and head honcho Kevin J. Lindenmuth.

Michaud is up first with "Beast", a tale of Mireille Levesque who comes home one day to find her husband slaughtered. The police have no clue what's going on but when her criminal brother shows-up spouting off about being a "beast" things get really out-of-hand. While the story feels a bit thin this is a mostly interesting effort with acting that's okay, an alright "top of head slice" effect and a somewhat effective finale. The editing is a bit jumpy though and Levesque's character is hard to root for since she was such an outright bitch to the police during questioning early on.

Next up is Lindenmuth's "Moon", a mild throwback to 50's horror that's a steadily acted tale of Michael McCallum being recruited for a high-paying job only for it to turn out he's target of a gang of werewolves since his dad came back from the moon with a shapeshifting gene twenty years prior and passed it on to his only son. This tale isn't too bad but suffers from a bit of a muddled script (it needed to clarify itself a bit better in the mid-section), an out-of-place hard rock soundtrack and an unintentionally laughable "kids voice" in the flashbacks.

Overall this collection is a merely so-so time but it's certainly not the worst of its type out there.

Directed By: Kevin J. Lindenmuth, Alexandre Michaud.
Written By: Ted Geoghegan, Kevin J. Lindenmuth, Alexandre Michaud.

Starring: Mireille Levesque, Marc Vaillancourt, Michael McCallum, Jacquie Jaye Floyd.