It was released in the United States by Lions Gate Entertainment and After Dark Films, and focuses on werewolves.

Directed by James Isaac, it stars Jason Behr, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, and Tom Jackson.

To achieve a PG-13 rating, the production team cut several scenes containing graphic violence — the home media release is the uncut version of the film.

Four of these werewolves are a motorcycle pack—leader Varek, and cohorts Zo, Sonya, and Grenier, who use a hawk as an airborne spy—who track down Timothy in the small town of Huguenot.

Reaching Huguenot, he sees Nana and Timothy and proceeds with a gunfight between his pack against the "good" werewolves and various townspeople.

They find their next safe place, with Rachel and Timothy hiding in a steel cage while Jonas sets out to ambush Varek, Zo, and Sonya.

"[5] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 33 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

[6] Skinwalkers had no advance screenings for critics, though Lionsgate did provide DVD screeners to those who asked.

[7] Frank Lovece of Film Journal International said that, "Before flagging toward the end to become a second-rate Terminator 2, this Canadian-made action drama sparks an old-fashioned B-movie charge—it's welcome-to-the-grindhouse all over again with such delicious conceits as a town of werewolf-citizens and a pistol-packing grandma going it gangsta-style".

[8] Despite the praise given to the creature effects by Stan Winston, the film received mostly negative reviews.

It includes a director's commentary, digital effects comparisons, a previsualization featurette, deleted scenes, the original theatrical trailer, a making of featurette, and additional Lionsgate film trailers to The Monster Squad, Fido, Fangs, and The Descent.