Think "Jaws" with four legs and stripes, right down to the "explosive" ending. At first nobody thinks there is a problem and thinks the police chief is paranoid. Until a town bigwig's offspring gets killed, then it's real and he is told to "just kill it". Substitute the chief's fear of the dark for Chief Brody's fear of water. Substitute the town's Corn & Apple Festival for Fourth of July. Substitute gun-toting hunters in SUVs for fisherman in rowboats trying for the reward. Substitute a "British" big-game hunter who has a tiger fixation for Quint (complete with a tiger version of Quint's Indianapolis story). There was even a shark cage and a roast on a hook for bait, for crying out loud! My son and I sat through the whole thing simply so we could shout out what was so obviously going to happen next and laugh at how it was accomplished. And Gary Busey either needed a larger suit coat or a better tailor (or corset).
