Filmmaker Jim Cummings talks about making a werewolf movie in Utah, and working with the late, great Robert Forster

If you’re making a werewolf movie that’s set in a ski town, filmmaker Jim Cummings has a tip: Make it in Utah.

Cummings made “The Wolf of Snow Hollow” in Kamas, Utah, just east of Park City, because “it felt like this mountain resort town. … I realized we could shoot 99% of the movie in these several-block radiuses.”

Cummings directed, wrote and stars in the movie, playing the chief deputy sheriff in a small snowy town where someone — he can’t bring himself to say something — is killing women quite gruesomely. The movie follows as Cummings’ character becomes increasingly unglued by the stress of solving the mystery, and keeping the strain from affecting his aging father, the sheriff.

The dad is played by Robert Forster, in the gruff character actor’s final role before his death last year. Forster had directed films before, so “he was really just this champion of us and doing it yourself.”

Read more about the movie here, at sltrib.com.