None-too-subtly named protagonist Lou Garou (Leo Fafard) is a bourbon-soaked disgrace to the sheriff's department in Woodhaven, his Canadian hometown. Venturing into the woods one night to investigate a case, Lou comes back with a pentagon carved into his chest and an acute case of lycanthropy, transforming him when the moon is out into Wolfcop, a bad-ass law enforcer with a furry snout for crime. Director Lowell Dean's horror-comedy isn't as good as Ginger Snaps, the last great Canadian werewolf picture, but it's enough of a gory hoot with its redneck milieu and old-school, in-camera special effects to anchor a fun, chemically assisted night out. You can't but help warming to a movie in which the star werewolf kills three armed robbers wearing pig masks.Also, it's so huggably Canadian, Lou's sidekick (Jonathan Cherry) politely apologises when he and Wolfcop destroy a criminal's meth lab.