Product Details

• Actors: Tom Downey, Jeff Denton
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: The Asylum
• DVD Release Date: September 1, 2005
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000AM4PCW
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #52,458 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Beast of Bray Road" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Based on actual accounts of sightings in Wisconsin, a local sheriff is forced to deal with a murderer who possesses DNA of both man and wolf.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Barely worth a rental, July 15, 2006

By	C. Chung (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Ugh. Where to begin? When I watched this film I knew there would be liberties taken for dramatic effect, and as one of the researchers involved with the real-life Bray Road incidents, I had to keep an open mind. After all, the film uses savage murders as its key subject point, but in reality, there were no human deaths in the real Bray Road cases. Unfortunately even my suspension of disbelief was not strong enough to stomach this film. Had writer/director Leigh Slawner (also known as Leigh Scott) done any research into the subject matter at hand, he could have come up with a decent indie werewolf film, because mercy knows we need one. Unfortunately he follows "Hollywood Formula" to the letter. When I was watching it, I told a friend in disgust all we needed was a bar fight and a cat jumping out of a closet to make the stereotypical plot devices complete. We didn't get the cat, but midway through we did have the bar fight.

The "Beast of Bray Road" is a sloppy, lazy, and cliche-ridden farce that's completely untrue to the self-proclaimed "Based On A True Story" title, and a mockery of the situation as a whole. Absolutely nothing in the film is based on the real Beast of Bray Road aside from the name of the film, and that was probably ripped off from writer Linda Godfrey's book with the same title.

Even if we disregard the real-life events that "inspired" it, it sill fails as a film in general. With the exception of a few characters, the acting is juvenile, the camera work uninspired, and the glaring inconsistencies are so bright, you literally need sunglasses to watch it. Elkhorn, Wisconsin is a city, not a drunken shanty town. Wisconsinites do not speak with Southern accents. Walworth County sheriff patrol cars do not have California license plates. The list can go on and on and on...

The plot is predictable, most of the characters are shallow cardboard cutouts, pacing is inconsistent, and on whole I felt as if I was watching a freshmen college student's final exam project. About the only redeeming aspect was the score. While not groundbreaking, it was at least decent enough to listen to.

Overall, if you're a fan of werewolves or a fan of real-world cryptids, you'll be sorely disappointed. This film brings nothing new to the table, and it falls back on every single convention used a million times before in previous werewolf films, and it does it badly. Unless you're a werewolf film completionist, this film isn't worth a buy. It's barely even worth a rental. For those interested in the real-life mystery, your best bet is to read _The Beast of Bray Road: Tailing Wisconsin's Werewolf_ and _Hunting The American Werewolf_ both by Linda Godfrey. Unlike the film, these won't disappoint.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Look out CHANEY,Theres a NEW Werewolf in town !, October 27, 2005

By	guestar57 "Chris aka Guestar57" (Porterville,Ca.USA) - See all my reviews

I was enthralled with this monster flick ! The cast: Jeff Denton(Has a James Dean-ish bent ),Sarah Lieving has a great screen prescence and will go far, Totally believable. The special effects would gross you out, But logically. Wanna talk about the beast, Joel Hebner portrays the beast and he is great; the suit by Eva Lohse and Dizzworks design is different than earlier cinematic beasts . Producers push the envelope that this is a true story,And on IMDB a fan says he has photo of REAL Beast of Bray Road. I wanna talk about ending, It was innovative and yet pissed me off, And the irony is we cant discuss without a Spoiler Warning, See you on the message boards AND WE SHALL DISCUSS !

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beast of Bray Road Kill, August 11, 2008

By	Mark Schaible ""Underworld"" (Everett, WA.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Five Stars? Am I crazy? Yes, but thats an entirely different subject. Lets start off. This is a "B" movie. No, its not Gone with the Wind, (thank God) its a 5 star B movie with great entertaining characters throughout. Gore is plentiful and gratuitous sex seems normal in this back woods town where there is nothing else to do but get drunk, get laid and get mangled by the Beast of Bray Road.

Being Based on a "True" story about a werewolf running amouk in Wisconsin really adds a whole new dimension in Terror as the viewer needs to add less suspension of disbeleif where the possibility of real werewolves running around are concerned. As far as B movies go... this one is Killer! Enjoy!