The A.V. Club

While it isn't particularly scary or suspenseful, it's fun and surprisingly breezy compared with its big-budget brethren.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

A Canadian-made werewolf thriller, Skinwalkers occasionally rises above its station as a standard-issue horror flick to deliver some enjoyably cheeseball thrills.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Adds little to the annals of werewolf lore. But it's briskly paced and features a couple of clever twists on genre conventions.

Los Angeles Times

There's a lot that remains unclear about the powers and abilities of the creatures in Skinwalkers, largely robbing the film of tension as events transpire in a slapdash, haphazard manner.

Variety by Joe Leydon

Plays more like '70s drive-in fare than a monster mash of recent vintage.

L.A. Weekly by Chuck Wilson

The only thing more boring than a vampire with moral issues about biting people in the neck is a werewolf who’d rather become fully human than howl at the moon once a month.

Boston Globe by Ty Burr

Watching the movie is a little like picking up issue #42 of a comic book after you've skipped the first 41: There's an entire back story mythos hovering in the background like a phantom limb.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

It stands alongside this year's other werewolf disaster, "Blood and Chocolate," in illustrating why the moon should set on the werewolf movie.

The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

A thoroughly undistinguished addition to a genre that probably reached its peak a quarter-century ago with "An American Werewolf in London."

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

Yawningly directed by Jim Isaac, Skinwalkers is a slavering mess that buries its clunky addiction metaphor beneath a welter of genre clichés, all delivered in extra-slow motion.