YMMV / Bad Moon

• Adaptation Displacement: People who watched it probably didn't know it was based on a book.
• Awesome Moments:
  • The movie does not hold back on its werewolf, giving you great glimpses of it in the opening attack, and it's one of the best-looking werewolves ever committed to film. We see plenty more of Ted as a werewolf throughout the movie, and it always looks horrifyingly real.
  • The fights between werewolf Ted and Thor are simply astonishing. It really, legitimately looks like a German Shepherd and a werewolf are doing their level best to kill each other. By the end of the final battle, both are sporting real-looking wounds and covered blood. And in the end, it wasn't the eight-foot-tall supernatural wolfman who triumphed, it was the ordinary German Shepherd defending his family.
  • Brett breaking Thor out of the dog pound.
• Moral Event Horizon: Ted crosses this when he had Thor hauled away to the dog pound for snooping around him, urinate on his doghouse just to gloat at tying up his loose end and then decided to kill Janet and Brett to Leave No Witnesses.
• Older Than They Think: Not many people may remember it anymore but I Was a Teenage Werewolf was the first werewolf film to feature a lycanthrope fighting a dog (who also happened to be a German Shepherd no less).
• Special Effects Failure: The werewolf itself is terrific for a film of this budget, but the less said about the transformation sequence (Body Horror aside) the better.
• Tear Jerker: The scene where Animal Control comes to take Thor away is heartwrenching, especially when Brett charges out and has to be held back by his mom. While he's pleading for Thor not to be taken away, Thor's fighting the Animal Control officers and dragging them back towards the house. The loyal dog does not want to leave his boy.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The werewolf looks just stunning, terrifyingly real, one of the best-looking werewolves ever filmed. Even the transformation sequence, with some dodgy CGI-morphing, is an innovative use of the technology, even if it looks a bit dated.

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