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    A young woman is leaving a local bar after a night of drinking and of course her car breaks down on the way home.   When she tries to fix her car a werewolf attacks her and kills her.  The next day the police find her car and begin to investigate her disappearance.  At the same time the local newspaper runs a story (with the sheriffs blessing) about the legend of the werewolf and the disappearance of the local girl.  This brings out a crypto zoologist that believes that the beast may be an undiscovered species.  After killing a few more of the locals the sheriff decides that they need to go hunting the creature before it does anymore damage.  We get an A-team montage of them making silver bullets and preparing their other weapons.  Finally they go walking around the woods at night.  A few of them get attacked and then they kill the werewolf.   

    I have to admit that for a low budget werewolf movie this really isn’t too bad.  The cast is good but not spectacular.  Though they aren’t really given much of a script to work with.  The characters are broadly drawn and predictable.  I pretty much knew who was going to live and die as well as who was going to turn out to be the werewolf.  But at the same time the script is tight and the director, Leigh Scott, does a good job keeping the action moving.  Know there are a couple slow spots but they are fairly short.  The werewolf itself is sort of goofy looking and gets way too much screen time in my opinion.  Also I was surprised at the lack of any real gore beyond a couple of gut munching scenes.   That being said the effects while limited are adequate.  The bottom line here is that The Beast of Bray Road is a silly low budget werewolf movie that, while not groundbreaking, is entertaining.   

    Compared to some of the higher budgeted movies that have managed to botch this up I will give The Beast of Bray Road it’s props.  All in all not a great movie but I had fun watching it.  If you don’t mind a little bit of cheese in your werewolf movie then check this one out.   

Rating - **

-John "El Juan": Shatzer