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| “ | Family love, Janet. I thought it could save me. I was wrong. But hey, we all make mistakes. You sent the dog to the pound, Janet. I warned you. I told you I shouldn't be here but you wouldn't let me go. You wanted to play "big sister". You had to be right. You always have to be right Janet! But this time you're wrong! You should have listened to the dog, Janet. He was trying to protect you. | „ |
| ~ Ted warning Janet about her mistake of sending Thor to the pound. |
| “ | Come back here you stupid bitch! | „ |
| ~ Ted threatening Janet as he begins transforming into a werewolf. |
| “ | Do it. Finish it. | „ |
| ~ Ted's last words before Thor kills him. |
Theodore "Ted" Harrison, also known as Uncle Ted, is the main antagonist of the 1996 horror film Bad Moon, itself based on the novel, Thor, by Wayne Smith.
He is portrayed by Michael Paré, while in his werewolf form, he was portrayed by Ken Kirzinger, who also played Jason Voorhees in Freddy vs. Jason.
Biography[]
During their expedition in Nepal, photo-journalists, Ted Harrison and his girlfriend, Marjorie, are having sex in their tent when a werewolf attacks their camp. The werewolf tears into their tent and grabs Marjorie as Ted tries to get the werewolf to let go of her, only for him to get bit and thrown to the ground. The werewolf begins mauling Marjorie to death as Ted, while wounded, crawls over to his shotgun and uses it to kill the werewolf by blowing its head off.
With the intent of living in isolation, Ted moves back home to the Pacific Northwest into an Airstream trailer in the woods hours away from his lawyer sister, Janet Harrison. One day in an effort to reach out to her and his young nephew Brett, Ted calls them up and invites them for a meal at his home by the lake. Upon seeing him again, the family's pet German Shepherd dog Thor, begins to sense something wrong with "Uncle Ted" and goes into the woods, tracking a smell which leads him to human remains hanging on a tree branch.
Meanwhile having heard that Marjorie is "gone" and in attempt at comforting her brother, Janet invites him to stay with them. Shaken and fearful of hurting them Ted declines and Janet, Brett, and Thor leave before the sun starts to set, at Ted's insistence. The next day there is an investigation going on in the woods near Ted's trailer where the mutilated bodies of several missing hikers and a Forest Ranger were found. Ted under fear of being found guilty, calls Janet and tells her he's changed his mind. He parks his Airstream in her backyard in the hopes that being near his family he'll be able to control himself. Thor however, aware of Ted's nature and suspicious of him becomes hostile towards him. Noticing that he goes out to "jog" at night with handcuffs Thor becomes frenzied until Janet lets him out of the house.
Tracking his scent Thor follows Ted into the woods and finds him turned into a werewolf and handcuffed to a tree growling, clawing and trying to escape, meanwhile Janet begins looking for Thor and goes into the woods. Aware of her danger Thor manages to find her and leads her back to the house before she finds Ted. The next day while making breakfast Janet sees on TV the news coverage on the killings and confronts her brother about not telling her his reasons for visiting her and invites him to stay permanently.
While Brett is watching Werewolf of London (mistakenly confused for The Wolf Man) Brett and Ted discuss werewolves and their existence with Ted stating that any stage of the lunar cycle can cause a werewolf to transform, and saying that he has "been acquainted with a few in his time" and Brett stating that werewolves don’t exist. While Brett throws out the trash Ted tries to warn his sister and advises her to start listening to Thor and his sudden change in behavior and drops hints that the murders had been done by wolves.
She ignores his pleas and he retreats into his trailer where Thor follows him waiting for him until the sun starts to set. Ted, scared, hides from the dog at first but eventually leaves the trailer with the hopes of restraining himself again. With the sun setting, Ted calls for Janet to take Thor in the house and when she does he rushes into the woods. Thor ,afraid of Ted hurting his family, begins to bark until Brett lets him out of the house. He runs off into the forest to find that Ted was too late and wasn't able to handcuff himself and has made his way into the backyard. Thor runs into Ted as they begin to fight. Janet is awoken from the commotion outside as she turns on the deck lights, in which the brightness blinds Ted and scares him off. Janet goes outside and sees Thor's injuries. She safely brings him inside and washes his wounds. Now feeling fearful of Ted's advice, Janet calls the Sheriff goes out to Ted's trailer to notify him, thinking he's there,
She does not find Ted but instead finds Ted's journal which contains gruesome pictures of Marjorie's body and some of his victims, the journal detailing his pain and his turmoil with not finding a cure for his "disease" and his hopes of finding peace by his family's side. Ted seems to lurk outside the trailer but Janet leaves safely, shaken but adamant about straightening things out with her brother. Later that night, a conman who had previously tried to frame Thor for a false bite, goes into the Harrison's yard with intent of killing Thor but is fatally attacked by Ted. The next day the sheriff shows up and questions Janet about Thor and informs her of the conman's attack by a wild animal having found his mutilated body 100 yards away from her property. Remembering Thor's injuries, Janet asks if the culprit could have been a human but the sheriff tells her that a human could not caused such a mutilation.
Not believing Thor could be the killer she confronts Ted who initiates Thor to attack him with his glare and Thor is taken away to the pound. Now more confident and apparently more accepting of his bloodlust, Ted "marks his territory" by urinating on Thor's doghouse (as Thor had done to his Airstream trailer earlier) and acts passive aggressively towards Brett who is angry at Ted for being the reason Thor was turned in. Brett pretends to go to sleep but packs his backpack and sneaks out of the house to go free his dog from the local animal shelter while Janet goes out into the woods to confront Ted for his aloof behavior.
In the woods, Ted accuses his sister of not listening to his warnings and knowing the truth all along and slowly begins to transform. Janet flees back to the house in panic while Brett breaks into the pound and frees Thor, who goes back to the house to find and stop Ted, with Brett following behind him. Meanwhile, Janet arrives in the house, grabs a pistol and loads it up with bullets as Ted breaks into the house. Janet flees into Brett's bedroom and closes the door, but Ted breaks in and is about to kill his sister, when Thor finally arrives and a brutal fight erupts between the two.
Thor had a bit of an advantage by lunging on Ted's back, surprising him from behind, but Ted managed to bash him against Brett's dresser cabinets and throw him to the floor. Thor, still determined to protect his family, gets back up and charges at Ted, smashing him into a wooden desk as Ted and Thor bite and slash at each other. Thor attempts to rip Ted's throat out by biting him on the neck, but Ted finally grabs Thor and throws him up at the ceiling, smashing the light bulb in the process and turning out the light. Brett arrives but Ted strangles him. Janet finishes loading her pistol as she screams "Get the fuck off my son!" and fires all eight rounds on Ted until she runs out. Wounded, but still alive, Ted growls at them, but Thor who is still alive, recovers all his strength and hurls himself at Ted and they both fall out of the window. Ted then flees into the woods with Thor on his trail.
At dawn, Thor finally finds a-now-human Ted, all bloodied and wounded. Ted tells Thor to "do it" and Thor lunges at Ted and finishes him off, killing him.
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- If one listens closely to Ted's growls in his werewolf form after Janet shoots him, he is saying, "Janet, let me die".