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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Nice effects though.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Director Dan Curtis had an impressive track record after developing the memorable character of Carl Kolchack, played wonderfully by Darren McGavin, in both "The Night Stalker" and "The Night Strangler", and also the one-off "The Norliss Tapes" with Roy Thinnes.Unfortunately, he doesn't have the same success here, though it does start off strongly with an innocent motorist being killed by a mysterious creature(a werewolf, perhaps?) Several more murders occur, until the twist at the end which is...underwhelming, to say the least. Peter Graves and Clint Walker face off as uneasy friends on opposing sides, since Walker's big game hunter is coldly indifferent to the deaths. He plays it menacingly, but his character(as well as Graves') come off quite flat, and there is little else to distinguish this film and make it memorable. Too bad.

While not bad for TV, the final twist reveals this not to be a werewolf film after all (though the medium had dabbled in the subgenre with MOON OF THE WOLF {1972} and even an episode from the KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER TV series, actually emanating from the same stable and year as this) but Richard Matheson's script – foregoing the generics (the attacks usually involving both an anonymous victim and an unseen assailant, every time the Police converge en masse and to the same pounding score upon the scene of the crime) – is both thoughtful and gripping. The narrative only really supplies a couple of human suspects but, even if the identity of the villain is pretty obvious, it is the reason for his actions that compels attention (ironically, that is what he had intended himself – to rouse the citizens from their placid existence through terror!). Incidentally, I have often remarked about how these kind of urban locations are simply too exposed to make for safe and comfortable living: the curtains are invariably never drawn and houses are shown as being extremely easy to break into! The cast is headed by Peter Graves (displaying much of the characteristics that made his name in the long-running MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE TV series – being both brawny, a former hunter, and brainy, a writer) and Clint Walker (in what must be one of the best roles he ever had as his ex-buddy who still lives only for the chase, claiming that a prey and its predator are never more alive than at the moment immediately prior to the kill!). Also on hand are Don Megowan (from TV's TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN {1958} and CREATION OF THE HUMANOIS {1962}) as a man who had so impressed Walker, by giving him a hard time at arm-wrestling, that he is hired as his personal manservant(!) and bartender Jo Ann Pflug as Graves' romantic interest (who instantly distrusts Walker and is eventually almost killed herself by the 'monster'). For what it is worth, the way in which Walker taunts Graves to leave Pflug and rejoin him gives this an unintended gay subtext! Needless to say, Graves eventually regains his old form (after having been humiliated by a dismally short bout of mano a mano!) and overcomes the conditioned wolf Walker used in the attacks, after which he is provoked into shooting the man himself in the back.

++Major Spoilers++ Former big game hunter and now deranged lunatic Byron Douglas, Clint Walker, comes up with some far-out ideas about life death and the human condition as well as how to bring a little life and excitement into the lives of the people in town by savagely murdering them and at the same time making it look like some kind of werewolf did it.Even though the movie tries to be suspenseful and keeps you guessing to who the killer is as soon as you see Douglas and how crazed and unstable Douglas is. Just by listening to his off the wall philosophy by talking about how one is most alive just when he's at he moment of death. This makes you almost look over his shoulder to see if you can catch a glimpse of the men in white with stun guns and butterfly nets ready to grab and restrain Douglas in a padded room at the local loony bin. You watch the movie hoping that whats on the screen is not really happening. In that that those making the film are just trying to keep you off the track by making you think that Douglas is the killer when the real killer is really someone else in the cast that you don't suspect. Still you just can't convince yourself that there's anyone more certain to be the killer then Douglas is and you end up being right.Were told that Douglas was attacked by some super wolf some time back in Canada which almost killed him and left him in the condition that he's in now. Trying to explain his mental and emotional state and at the same time throws off suspicion about him being the killer but even that falls apart at the end of the movie.The only way I could follow the story is by realizing that Douglas is crazy, which wasn't hard to do, so whatever he said and did in the movie made sense only to himself not to anyone else. The end of the film ripped off the movie "The Most Dangerous Game" by Douglas pitting friend and former hunting buddy now writer Peter Graves, John Wetherby, against himself in a life and death struggle to see who's fit and strong enough to survive. Even then Douglas cheated by having a vicious wolf as a partner and leaving Wetherby with a rifle with no bullets in it.Wetherby had to run for some distance to find a box in the woods with only two slugs that Douglas left for him. When it came to the hand to hand combat that Douglas craved for Wetherby pulled out a gun that he secretly had on him a blew Douglas away. Since Douglas murdered six people there was no point for all that ridicules game playing with him. A major flaw in the movie was why the police never thought of arresting Douglas even though he was the most evident and conspicuous suspect in town. It was nothing but a waste of time trying to figure out Douglas' weird philosophy and sermonizing during the movie because it was just that, weird.

This is an exceptionally well made for TV movie that has your standard werewolf movie stuff,but yet its a strange kind of duck,with a surprise twist.The acting is done extremely well,especially by Graves and Walker,who absolutely steals the show as a big game hunter with a rather interesting philosophical point of view about life and a grim,yet at the same time, happy go lucky kind of personality.Some of his lines are quite memorable{"Look at the terrified faces of these people.They feel alive in the face of danger".].The film has convincing moments of tension and the story moves along at a steady pace with a convincing feeling of mystery.Peter Graves is brilliant,too, as the retired hunter coming out of retirement to track down an apparent werewolf on the loose.All in all,this film is done with a certain amount of style and flair rarely seen in made for TV movies these days.This is a great one to watch late at night.If you like horror/mystery types of movies,I highly recommend this.Its worth seeing just for Clint Walker"s character and the great job he does portraying him!