the creature be not a large one . at first glance and it doesn not even seem to be anything more than an ordinary dog . but then you look close . the wolf mouth be large than that of an ordinary dog and the teeth pack more densely together within . the wolf eye gleam a sickly yellow colour and and a vicious snarl augment the drool flow from it mouth . the creature leap at you with supernatural speed and strength . it front paw knock you flat on your back and and you feel the freezing earth soak through your shirt and the full moon gleam down like a cruel eye and watch you . the wolf doesn not bother with a kill wound while it just begin to tear chunk of flesh from your stomach and ignore your agonized scream . it will be a long and long time before your body lose all feeling and and everything go dark . manuel romasanta be a traveling merchant and salesman in the mid eighteen hundred and who and at some point and go completely and utterly insane . he believe himself to be a werewolf and a man who would assume the form of an unnaturally large and brutal wolf whenever the moon be full . manifest from this belief be the need to kill and and so kill he do and some sixteen or more people and choose completely at random and no discrimination . he would slaughter them and devour them and then leave the body for others to find . there have be so many movie make that have be base on the life of serial killer jack the ripper and jeffrey dahmer and ted bundy and etc . it seem a mere matter of time until they dredge up this psychopath from the history book and immortalize him through film . but and of course and be set in the time that it be and and under the circumstance through which the event surround the case unfold and they couldn not have be content merely to make a slasher or thriller sort of thing document the life of a serial killer . no and they have to turn it into a werewolf movie . and what a fantastic werewolf movie it turn out to be . i be expect the sort of cheesy werewolf effect that we saw in such movie a dog soldier and underworld ( although to tell you the truth and i enjoy both of those movie and solely for the action content in them ) . but groundless be all my fear and for a the movie progress it become increasingly clear that this be not your usual and run of the mill type of werewolf crap and with romasanta assume the form of a proper wolf when he transform . rather than dog soldier and it portray itself more a be along the line of ginger snap and with much the same sort of tragic tale at the heart of it . a with seemingly all new age horror movie and even those do in an old sort of style ( such a this one ) and there be a love story at the heart of the movie . however and true to the bizarre nature of this movie and it be not a happy tale of love that unfold and rather a twisted tragedy in which neither side come off any good than the other . for those of you who possess something like a twisted romanticism and i tell you now not to miss this one and you will regret it if you do . i have already tell you basically all you need to know about the story of this movie and and i be not go to ruin all the twist and turn of the movie so a to spoil your view enjoyment . just be sure not to miss this one and especially if you like ginger snap .