movie open with scott cowley ( andrew bowen of mad tv ) on a hunting trip in cameroon with his brother charlie . a creature come out of the jungle and rip scott leg off . charlie can only watch him die . present day and scott wife ( sarah aldrich of port charles ) be in a new and unhappy marriage with scott friend mitchell ( the under appreciated richard tyson of two moon junction and hardball ) and who be also along on the hunting trip year before . son derek ( trevor duke ) doesn not get along with stepdad mitch and and thing only get bad when he steal the key to mitch seclude cabin and head out with some frat buddy and their girlfriend and and his pal samantha ( kim brown of the guide light ) . just when thing be heat up at the cabin and a werewolf burst in and kill everyone but derek and sam and who narrowly escape . the two lie about what happen at the cabin to the local sheriff ( david naughton of american werewolf in london ) and think that no one will believe that a werewolf be responsible for the killing . derek and sam have suspicion about mitch and but do not know how to prove them . enter uncle charlie and who have suspicion of his own ever since the africa trip . he and the kid set out to prove that mitch be the werewolf . a clever cat and mouse game ensues and that lead to a final confrontation back at the cabin . this be well write for a relatively low budget horror flick . there be some actual character development and some welcome bit of black humor . the directing and act be uniformly good and also unusual for a teen orient film and and the character be all pretty likable and behave in an intelligent manner to deal with the problem and for the most part . richard tyson shine in an admittedly limited role a the sinister stepdad or beast . trevor duke a derek fare less well a the wishy washy and ineffective hero for the bulk of the movie . the gore special effect be more than adequate and though the werewolf transformation sequence leave something to be desire . all in all and big bad wolf move along at a good pace and be interest if nothing new or special and and have a good conclusion . maybe not in the same league a the universal wolfman and or brotherhood of the wolf and it still way well than most of the recent crop of werewolf flick .