Filmmaker Patrick Rea's otherwise humdrum horror-revenge story offers some gender-switch novelty, with roles assigned to actresses that would normally go to macho male redneck-rowdy types, plus the werewolf curse as more of a superhero(ine) deal. In some boondocks town, bespectacled alterna-chick Lisa (Kristen Vaganos), despite her posh college degree earned overseas, returns to manage an eclectic used-bookstore inherited from her grandmother. She has a longstanding local feud with her nemesis Jessica (Carmen Anello), a local bully with a mixed-race female posse. When Lisa finally tries to file formal charges against Jessica with the tyrannical town sheriff (Manon Halliburton), who happens to be Jessica's mom, the community's law-enforcement personnel and their thugs beat and torture her instead, then leave her for dead in the woods—where tradition states that werewolves routinely lurk.
One of them wounds Lisa without killing her, and the stricken girl is succored by a mysterious female recluse (Cinnamon Shultz) and nursed back to health. Of course, Lisa develops lycanthropic symptoms; before you can say "My spider-sense is tingling" (and actress Vaganos does have something of a resemblance to Tobey Maguire playing Peter Parker), Lisa starts exhibiting werewolf superpowers of perfect vision, super-strength, and fast-healing. She uses them to slay her tormentors one by one. The low budget shows mainly in the underpowered wolf-woman makeup, which makes Lisa look more like a vampire or second-tier Star Trek alien than a Rick Baker masterpiece of body fur. Otherwise, the thespians go through the routine with commendably straight faces, and Halliburton makes a properly hissable villainess. While there is plenty of gore, sex and nudity are coyly subdued. Bookstore scenes permit plugs in the dialogue for Bradbury's' Fahrenheit 451 and Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. Optional. Aud: P.