Really liked this. Only 2 notes. 1) I can’t remember the title. I look away and it’s gone. 2) The CGI could be better. The movie otherwise doesn’t need it, relying mostly on shadows, movements, sounds, grainy footage, creepy hoofprints, and a solid, sympathetic, medium-burn story about people and families.

In it, a laconic rural sheriff, tortured by personal tragedy and struggling against constituent distrust (formulas are formulas cuz they work), investigates mysterious animal and human deaths, with help from his deputy, a NYC transplant taking a geographic cure for his own past trauma. It’s a touching story of reconciliation (estranged wife) and renewal as Sheriff Shields (I know, I know) becomes the leader he once was in the end. But don’t get too comfortable, folks.