I saw it when it was released in the cinema back in the day, overall I enjoyed it, I thought Everett McGill was great as Reverend Lowe, the werewolf looked a bit too much like a bear at times though.
I'll find that magazine I have that has interviews with people from the film, I think they mentioned the bear thing was intentional but I just can't remember for sure. I know they didn't want to copy what others had already done just a few years earlier (Howling, AWIL, etc) so it probably was.