Moon of the Wolf is an American TV movie that aired on September 26, 1972, on ABC Movie of the Week. The film stars David Janssen, Barbara Rush, Geoffrey Lewis, and Bradford Dillman, and was directed by Daniel Petrie, with a script by Alvin Sapinsley based on Leslie H. Whitten’s novel of the same name.

The plot follows a creepy tale set in a highborn Louisiana family with a dark secret. After a local girl is found mutilated in a nearby bayou, a local sheriff (played by Janssen) must use all his detective skills to solve the crime, with his investigation leading him to an old flame and her aristocratic family. The sheriff becomes convinced that the killer behind a series of grisly murders is actually a werewolf.

The film is described as a tight and eerie Southern Gothic creeper with an ace cast, a fun and engaging central mystery and it’s reminiscent of other supernatural TV movies of that era.