Werewolf

Werewolf is a brand new Dire Original that explores the weight of generational curses. It follows a man living with a terrible curse: each full moon, he becomes something wild, destructive, and impossible to control. This time, he swears it will be his last. For the sake of his marriage, his future, and the people he loves, he’s determined to face the night, endure it, and finally break free.

But love, fear, and denial make complicated companions. After an argument with his wife at his 'last moon celebration', the man and his mother, also cursed, take to the streets to celebrate the way their family has for ages. Only this time the man brings his tragedy home with him, out of the night and in to the cold light of day having committed a crime so heinous in his altered state that forgiveness and survival may be impossible. His exhausted wife clings to hope. His mother calls him foolish while quietly bracing for the worst. And as the beast offers itself as a vessel of emancipation from responsibility, the wreckage that follows cannot be undone.
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Allegorical, intimate, painfully human, and all to familiar, Werewolf uses the mythology of the monster to explore the quiet tragedies families carry in private, the damage we cause, the people who stay anyway, and the realities of addiction.