Dumbasses don't even know what a skinwalker is.

I just wish they couldve used more native american imagery.

*yawn* yet another werewolf movie.

A movie based on that book "The Skinwalker Ranch" would've been better.

"There's no point in being grown-up if you can't act childish, sometimes." - The Doctor (Tom Baker)

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I dunno... I just think people should think twice about appropriating native stories and show more respect to a people who have had MORE than enough stolen from them (I'm a non-native, for the record). I'm not saying I want a movie that's super-intellectual (though I wouldn't mind it either), I'm saying I'd like to see a bit more respect and knowledge of the subject matter.

The fact that most big-budget hollywood film-makers don't do much or any research into their source material is one of the biggest problems with hollywood movies, period. Just because everybody else is (or, in this case, isn't) doing it doesn't necessarily make it right.

This is all just my opinion, though.

Oh please spare me that "heart and soul" crap. Such drivel gives me diabetes. Writers nowadays are just so *beep* lazy. They don't care about the craft anymore

"There's no point in being grown-up if you can't act childish, sometimes." - The Doctor (Tom Baker)

I'm going to throw down as well here. Respectfully of course.

In folklore, more often than not, actual tales of creatures vary widely depending on whatever area you happen to be in. In this circumstance, as has been vaguely mentioned in this board, the Navajo have multiple explanations for this creature. One of these happens to be a person who takes the shape of a wolf. So in a loose sense, the title of the movie can be considered correct.

As far as Hollywood plundering folklore and legends and presenting it in an incorrect fashion or more precisely a fashion that someone happens to disagree with will always happen, simply because no matter how much research one does into a topic like this the problem I asserted in the first paragraph will guarantee that someone will take offense to it.

In another example we have the show Supernatural, which I love, however they simply state salt keeps demons at bay. Technically it has to be a pure form of salt. Sea salt works, non-iodized salt works, but you can't just grab the table shaker off the table and ward away evil. At least according to what I've found on this certain example. But really why go into that? It's a simple plot device they use in the show and it works.

Also I agree with Punkrock err. It's perfectly fine to research a subject and have true elements from something, but if you want to make an Underworld style movie, really the Skinwalker legend doesn't work for that. Dramatic license often leads to much better movies than simply getting the facts right or presenting it in a realistic manner. Also, it's easier to act cynical then to simply appreciate things for what they are and to enjoy them.

I am someone who has studied various accounts of the supernatural and occult from around the world including the legends of werewolves. Where the producers/writers/everyone else involved with this film have it right is that in certain European and Slavic cultures, a person who strips naked, anoints themselves with a special ointment containing a mixture of herbs and magical ingredients and then covers their body with the hide of a wolf beneath the full moon will become a werewolf. The term used by any who shapeshifts in this manner is a Skinwalker. They wear the skin of an animal to assume that animal's appearance and abilities. The connection to the term skinwalker and a werewolf can easily be made in this way. I also think it was meant by the writers to be more of a play on words. They are beasts who walk in the skins of men. The proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing.