Bad Moon

Contrary to what the ads would have you believe, this isn't a werewolf picture. It's a boy-and-his-dog movie, and a pretty dippy one at that. We can hear the pitch now: It's WHITE FANG meets THE WOLF MAN -- great for the whole family! Wrong. Photographer Ted (Michael Pare), traveling in an exotic part of the world, is bitten by a werebeast. Tainted by the encounter but trying desperately to hang onto his humanity, Ted moves in with his sister Janet (Mariel Hemingway) and small nephew (Mason Gamble). Only the family's German shepherd, Thor, senses that something's amiss, and soon Ted's locked in a battle of wills with the preternaturally intelligent dog. Thor...