Bad Moon is an American-Canadian co-produced feature film of the werewolf subgenre of horror. It was written and directed by Eric Red based on a novel by Wayne Smith. It was produced by Morgan Creek Entertainment and distributed through the Warner Bros. film company. The movie opened to limited theatrical release in the United States on November 1st, 1996.
Bad Moon had a domestic opening of $607,081, having been screened in only 825 theaters. It had a total domestic gross of $1,055,525 over its entire U.S. run, which was a total of nine weeks (63 days). It did not receive an international release. [2]
On the Internet Movie Database, Bad Moon has a Starmeter score of 5.8 out of 10 based on more than 8,400 user votes, which makes up 24.4% of the total voting pool. 8.1% of voters gave the film a perfect score of 10 with 676 votes and 2.7% voters gave the movie a score of 1 with 227 votes. Totals are based on analytics as of September, 2024.
On the movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Bad Moon has a Tomatometer score of 30% based on ten posted critic reviews. It has 3 positive reviews and 7 negative reviews. The movie has a Popcornmeter or audience score of 46% based on more than 5,000 user ratings, averaging 3.1 out of 5.
On Letterboxd, Bad Moon has a weighted average review score of 2.97 out of 5 based on 9,673 user votes.
