A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.
Direction
Rudolph brings art-house cred to schlock material—elevated pulp.
Acting
JoBeth Williams carries the film's moral weight with grit and grace.
Production
Wyoming locations feel authentically vast and quietly menacing.
Director
Alan Rudolph
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film was inspired by actual unsolved cattle mutilation cases across the American West in the 1970s, which the FBI investigated and found no evidence of extraterrestrial involvement—though local ranchers disagreed.
Robert Urich took this role between his TV stardom on 'Vega$' and 'Spenser: For Hire,' making this a rare theatrical detour into paranoid cinema that predicted his later true-crime documentary hosting career.
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