I think we can all live with that. It’s still a scary and interesting movie about a wolf man, anchored by a haunting performance from Abbott, who understood the assignment and went for extra credit.

“It was both neat and scary,” Jones told MLive. “It’s a wild animal and you don’t know how it’s going to react.” It actually acted much like a dog, rolling around on the snowy ground.

For many Northern California ranchers, the question is no longer whether the wolves preying on their herds are going to be forcefully removed, it's who is going to do it.