A TV
newswoman named Karen White (Dee Wallace)
meets up with a killer named Eddie Quist
(Robert Picardo) in an Xrated movie
theatre as he has some personal
discussions he needs to sort out with
her.
Suddenly she spots something terrifying
about him and then she nearly encounters
a death with the serial killer.
She keeps having nightmares about that
horrible incident and her shrink Dr.
George Waggner (Patrick Macnee) sends her
and her husband Bill (Christopher Stone)
to a retreatment center after she can't
shake the awful feeling and to get rid of
her amnesia while some coroners do some
researching on the corpses the killer
created on them with look like animal
marks.
The
retreatment centre is in a small village
out in the woods by the ocean. There she
has group therapy hosted by Waggner.
She finds the surroundings there friendly
but very strange with the residents there
especially when night time comes around
as she hears terrible howling sounds.
She
keeps having terrifying nightmares of
what is going to happen there and then
discovers that the village there is
invaded by werewolves and also realises
that she is in more danger there than the
incident with the killer Eddie because
even her husband is turned into a
werewolf himself after being briefly
attacked by one.
The film has some
humor at first to make the viewers who
gets scared easily to relax as that's
just what happens when the film starts to
roll as it becomes very serious with the
terror on the werewolves.
The film has terrific werewolf effects
whenever someone turns into one too.
Werewolf film became popular during this
time period due to this one as well as An
American Werewolf in London.
The acting is very
well done as Dee Wallace really
steals the ashow with her performance by
her freaked out wemotions on the wolves
howling and being the target for a serial
killer too in the beginning of this film.
Her ending scene in the newsroom as she
has a terrifying secret is a true classic
and will always be remembered. After this
she played the Mom in E.T.
The late Christopher Stone (Bless
his soul) is great too as her husband and
really performs well when he turns slowly
into a werewolf too.
We also have British character actor Patrick
Macnee who is perfect as a deceiving
psychiatrist with a secret evil twist to
him towards the end of the film.
A porn actress is
gagged on screen at an X rated movie
theatre and her breasts and full body
shot are exposed.
Elisabeth Brooks takes off her cloak
near a bonfire and is naked from the top
to the bottom while there are some brief
butt shots by Christopher Stone's
character as the two starts to fornicate
before turning into werewolves.
There is some guts at a
mortuary when they research an attack by
the killer.
A werewolfs hand is chopped off by an axe
and looks quite gruesome too as the hand
is still moving.
A woman's throat is sliced open by
werewolf claws and then she is later seen
gutted and torn apart.
A guys face is torn while he becomes a
werewolf.
Joe Dante
is amazing with his direction for a
werewolf film bringing on the terror with
this one.
He shows great direction with his actors
as the locals in the deep dark woods as
well as showing them turning into
terrifying werewolves with excellent
camera shots on Stone and Brooks
after their sex scene together.
Also he makes the scene very bone
chilling when the werewolves are howling
at night and Dee Wallace's
character is spooked out staying in her
cabin.
His shots with the actors in the woods is
spine tingling too.
If Joe hasn't won an award for
this piece then he deserves one.
Pino Donaggio
composed the music beautifully with
classical sounds of violin and other
stuff which really works great for this
film.
He is a true classic gem for this music.
He has also composed music for various
foreign films too.
Bill Neill: I'm
looking for my wife.
Marsha Quist: Why?
[looking in what was
Eddie Quist's morgue locker]
Chris: He's not here!
Morgue Attendant: He was here this
morning!
Terry Fisher: (noticing the damage
on the inside of the locker door) Look at
the door!
Chris: You think somebody took
him?
Morgue Attendant: Well, he didn't
just get up and walk away!
Karen: There was
howling just a minute ago.
Bill Neill: It was probably
somebody's stray dog.
Karen: It didn't sound like any
dog I've ever heard before.
Bill Neill: Honey, you're from Los
Angeles. The wildest thing you've ever
heard is Wolfman Jack. This is the
country.
[On how to kill
werewolves]
Bookstore owner: Silver bullets or
fire, that's the only way to get rid of
the damn things. They're worse than
cockroaches.
Bookstore owner: [talking
about his occult bookstore] The
Manson people used to hang out here and
shoplift!
Eddie Quist: (to
Chris) Hello, bright boy.
Chris: Eddie?
Eddie Quist: You know me, but I
don't know you. Why is that?
Eddie Quist: Don't
you know anything?
Chris: You're crazy!
Eddie Quist: Oh, I'm much more
than that!
Eddie Quist: I'm
gonna give you a piece of my mind. I
trusted you, Karen. (proceeds to pull a
piece of his skull out a bullet hole in
his head)
Erle Kenton: You
can't tame what's meant to be wild, doc.
It just ain't natural.
Chris: I've got
silver bullets in here. (points rifle)
Jerry Warren: Silver bullets my
ass! Get up, T.C.!
Dr. George Waggner:
Thank God! (drops to the ground)
Fred Francis: [on
the phone after Karen freezes during a
newscast] Who knows? Maybe she's
pregnant. Listen, get in touch with that
Fujiama, Fujimoto, or whatever the hell
her name is and get her ready for the
11:00 report.
Erle Kenton: We
should have stuck with the old ways.
Raising cattle for our feed. Where's the
life in that?
Charlie Barton: Humans *are* our
cattle.
Erle Kenton: Humans are our
*prey*. We should feed on them, like
we've always done. Screw all this
"channel your energies" crap.
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