Wolf Girl (2001) – Thom Fitzgerald.

Melancholy Circus performer Tara Talbot (Victoria Sanchez) suffers from hypertrichosis, and yearns to break away from the freakshow and live life as a normal teenaged girl. With a wonderful cast, this quirky lycanthropic curiosity is coloured with a captivating array of enjoyably eccentric characters, and an especially sympathetic protagonist in the increasingly beleaguered Tara. Obviously, since this is essentially a horror-inflected tragedy, Tara's happy ever after is gruesomely earned, her bloody vengeance wholly justified. As always, the commanding Tim Curry steals the show, but ol' fuzzy face stole my heart! I was very taken by the story, having great empathy for the carny folk, and I'd love to see a restored version of this blood warmingly adult fairy tale.

“People nowadays are afraid of anything that's different!”