Based on a Wisconsin urban legend about a beast roaming a stretch of wooded road. The movie picks the werewolf explanation, and we get a several gory attacks with the monster munching on guts and limbs and occasionally ripping a head off.
The rest of the plot is made up of a new sheriff investigating a missing woman. The town is populated by beligerent red necks (most of whom end up getting chomped). The sheriff has a romance going with a local bar owner, so we do get to see some gratuitous boob shots (I watched it on SciFi so they were blurred out). There is also one of those endings that lends itself to a sequel.
All considered this one is limberger on the cheese-o-meter.
Oh, and the werewolf looks like of those little dogs with big ears with fur hanging off them and a pug nose.
There is a book and a
website about the legend, which far more interesting than this movie.