An foul-tempered man named Yuri (Jorge Riverso) gets his hands on the skeleton of a werewolf that was discovered out in the middle of the Arizona desert.  Anyone who gets scratched by the werewolf’s skeleton is destined to transform into a werewolf themselves.

That’s not much of a plot.  This is the first time that I’ve come across the idea that touching a werewolf’s skeleton will also turn you into a werewolf.  It doesn’t make much sense but it does lead to a lot of scenes of Yuri creeping around and hitting people with pieces of the werewolf skeleton.  He’s working with an archeologist (Richard Lynch) who wants to capture a werewolf and then make money by displaying it in a freak show.  Unfortunately, almost everyone who gets touched by the werewolf skeleton dies shortly afterwards.

Other than Richard Lynch and Jorge Rivero, the only “name” actor in this movie is Joe Estevez, Martin Sheen’s look-alike brother.  Joe Estevez has the role that I guess would go to Daniel Baldwin if the movie were made today.  He stands around and yells.  Overall the acting is so poor that it’s often laugh-out-loud funny.  Adriana Stastny mutters, “This is absolutely fascinating,” in the dullest voice possible when she’s first told about how the skeleton can turn someone into a werewolf.  As for the werewolf, it’s appearance changes from scene-to-scene, making it next to impossible to actually follow the plot.

There’s  a reason why this movie is best-known for being used in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.  Without Mike and the bots, it’s almost unbearably dull.  There’s nothing absolutely fascinating about it.