Plot Summary
On a seaside pier in Los Angeles, friends Jenny Tate and Becky Morton talk to fortune-teller Zela. Zela foretells that they will suffer a horrible fate involving a beast that feeds off the moon. However, they do not believe her. That night, after visiting her boyfriend Jake Taylor, Ellie Myers drives her younger brother, 16-year-old Jimmy Myers, home. Jimmy had a run-in with bullies and his crush Brooke. En route, Jimmy and Ellie collide with an animal and another car. They attempt to rescue the other driver, Becky, but a creature attacks the trio, killing Becky and slashing the siblings.
Despite Jimmy’s belief that it was a wolf or dog-type animal, the official police report later credits it to a bear or cougar. The next day at work, Ellie finds herself attracted to the scent of a coworkers blood, but dismisses it. At a party, Ellie gets annoyed that Jenny is flirting with Jake and leaves. Later, while heading to the parking garage, Jenny is chased and killed by a wolf-like creature. Jimmy starts to believe that the creature was a werewolf, sharing his thoughts with a disbelieving Ellie. To ease Jimmy’s concerns, she touches a silver picture frame without getting burned. Jimmy is becoming stronger and more aggressive.
A bully named Bo eventually coerces him to join the wrestling team. Jimmy easily defeats three wrestlers, including Bo, and calls Bo out for constantly making gay jokes towards him, saying that Bo himself is repressing his own homosexuality. Ellie starts to believe the werewolf hypothesis when she meets Zela. Zela mentions the coming full moon and says that the only way to cure Ellie is to end the line of the werewolf who cursed her. Jimmy later holds a silver cake server and gets burned, discovering that the picture frame Ellie touched earlier was actually stainless steel.
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Info & Stats
Director:
Wes Craven
Writer:
Kevin Williamson
Stars:
Christina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg, Portia de Rossi
Categories:
Horror, Comedy
Budget:
$35,000,000.00
Revenue:
$19,300,000.00
Age: PG13Â |Â Â Duration: 1h 37m
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