'Werewolves Within' - Movie Review

Finn Wheeler (Sam Richardson - playing goofy and vulnerable, but happily not "stupid") is a forest ranger assigned to a new town. When he arrives in Beaverfield, he finds pretty much all the residents are a little nuts - and politically divided by the offer of a buy-out from an oil pipeline that may be built through the town. The only one who seems remotely sane is the mail carrier Cecily Moore (Milana Vayntrub) who helps him out, and they get fairly close quickly. Then a winter storm blocks the road and the power goes out, and the violent deaths start ...

Based on a video game, the movie got good reviews (As of 2021-10: 85% on Rotten Tomatoes and "Generally favorable reviews" on Metacritic), and it's horror-comedy, a genre I sometimes enjoy. But this one felt more like a slightly wonky (and bloody) mystery asking "who's doing the killing?" than a horror-comedy. Richardson and Vayntrub are both pretty good in the leads, but the structure didn't really work for me. It was only mildly funny, only mildly shocking, and not scary at all.