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n. (plural of skinwalker English)
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Skinwalkers is a 2006 horror- action film about werewolves, and was released in the United States by Lions Gate Entertainment and After Dark Films. Directed by James Isaac, it stars Jason Behr, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, and Tom Jackson. The film was originally announced for theatrical release on December 1, 2006, but was delayed until August 10, 2007.
Skinwalkers marks Lions Gate Entertainment's first collaboration with Constantin Films, which produced such other science fiction/horror films as Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and Wrong Turn. The visual effects are by effects house Mr. X, and the creature effects by Stan Winston Studio.
The film was shot at Century Manor in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. To achieve PG-13 rating, the production cuts several scenes containing graphic violence like Alien vs. Predator—the home media release is the uncut version of the title.
Skinwalkers is the seventh crime fiction novel in the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series by author Tony Hillerman published in 1986. Skinwalkers was adapted for television for the PBS Mystery! series in 2002.
Murders are happening all over the huge reservation, and Lt. Leaphorn can see no pattern. Then someone makes an attempt on Jim Chee's life, and the two work together for the first time to solve these crimes.
The novel won two awards, the 1988 Anthony Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Spur Award for Best Western Novel. Reviews at the time of publication praised it highly: "Hillerman brings together his two series characters--middle-aged, cynical Lieut. Joe Leaphorn and young, mystical Officer Jim Chee--without in any way diminishing the stark power and somber integrity that have distinguished previous exploits of the Navajo Tribal Police." The writing is "is lively and extremely descriptive" and author Hillerman was "a master of character, scene, and plot". A New York Times review called this the breakout novel for Hillerman, when sales began to surge and recognition increased.
Skinwalkers (2002) is a mystery television film based on the novel of the same name by Tony Hillerman, one of his series of mysteries set against contemporary Navajo life in the Southwest. It features an all-Native American cast, with Adam Beach and Wes Studi playing officers Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn. It was produced as part of the PBS Mystery! series, filmed on the Navajo reservation and directed by Chris Eyre.
The film was the highest rated program of 2002 on PBS. It is the first of three television films based on the same series of books, the other two being adaptations of A Thief of Time and Coyote Waits. It was repackaged in 2016 with the two following films as Skinwalkers: The Navajo Mysteries on Netflix.
Usage examples of "skinwalkers".
Most skinwalkers he'd encountered in the past fifty-five years or so had preferred the endurance of a wolf, or the agility of a mountain lion.
A mortal confronting skinwalkers hunting at night was at a clear disadvantage, and the night scope would only compensate so much.
He continued to scan the area for more skinwalkers, but couldn't see any creatures at all, human or animal.
A wolf or panther could also see quite well at night, he knew, but skinwalkers in animal form had one tactical advantage over the animals they mimicked.
Now both he and Agent Lopez had resumed their normal duties, and the search for the skinwalkers was more or less on hold.
Annie had been killed decades ago by skinwalkers who'd invaded his home, but in some ways it seemed like only yesterday.
After Annie had been killed by the skinwalkers, he'd hunted them down one by one and destroyed them.
It seemed to attract skinwalkers like bees to honey and that made it one huge disadvantage for Lee when hunting the shape-shifters.
And if the latter is true, are we talking about a gang—sorry—pack of skinwalkers who have their own criminal organization?
Going undercover among a pack of skinwalkers, or just one more, will be impossible once they can detect what I am.
If any of the employees were skinwalkers, he'd know in a matter of seconds.
The other skinwalkers probably don't trust her very much either, especially after she flirted with me so openly the other night.
But what if the skinwalkers who handle this end of the business aren't the ones who smuggle the goods in from Mexico?
I've never seen a pack of skinwalkers with more than a half-dozen people.
By now Diane knew only too well that skinwalkers could shift into a variety of animal forms.