When people and animals start turning up dead, all of them viciously ripped apart and eaten, it sparks rumors about the return of the Beast of Bray Road, a mythical, wolf-like creature whose legend dates back to the 19th century.

As the bodies pile-up, mounting evidence, such as the teeth marks on a victim's bones and DNA analysis of the fur that was found at one of the attack sites, suggests that the predator that is running amok really is a werewolf; this is confirmed by dashcam footage that is recovered from Dennis's car after he is killed by the Beast.

"[3] In a review written for Rue Morgue, Joseph O'Brien had a middling response to the film, deriding its derivative plot and "dumb" characters while praising its special effects, ultimately concluding, "While it's unlikely to make you forget Ginger Snaps anytime soon, once you get past the fact that the events depicted in The Beast of Bray Road have as much to do with reality as professional wrestling, there's a decent, if uninspired, lupine time-waster here.

"[6] Jon Condit of Dread Central awarded the film a score of 1½ out of 5 and wrote, "After getting off to a promising start and unveiling one of the best looking werewolf costumes to come along in quite awhile, it pains me to report that the Beast of Bray Road is a total misfire.

After about a half hour, it became apparent that Beast of Bray Road was conceived by someone with no imagination that instead chose [to] craft the film using a predictable, by-the-numbers werewolf movie template and insisted on following it to the bitter end.