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Directed
& Edited by:
Joe Dante
Written
by: John
Sayles & Terence H.
Winkless
Gary Bradner (Novel)
Starring:
Dee Wallace ....
Karen White
Patrick Macnee .... Dr.
George Waggner
Dennis Dugan .... Chris
Christopher Stone .... R.
William (Bill) Neill
Belinda Balaski ....
Terry Fisher
Kevin McCarthy .... Fred
Francis
John Carradine .... Erle
Kenton
Slim Pickens .... Sam
Newfield
Elisabeth Brooks ....
Marsha Quist
Robert Picardo .... Eddie
Quist
Noble Willingham ....
Charlie Barton
James Murtaugh .... Jerry
Warren
Release
Date: Theatrical:
January 21, 1981
(France); March 13, 1981
(New York); April 10 1981
(North American
Nationwide)
*Images
courtesy at: www.moviescreenshots.blogspot.com
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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.
The Special Edition
DVD Features:
- Available
Subtitles: English,
Spanish, French
- Available
Audio Tracks: English
(Dolby Digital 5.1),
English (Dolby Digital
2.0 Mono)
- Commentary
by: director and
castUnknown Format
- "Unleashing
the Beast": all-new
documentary
- "Making
a Monster Movie: Inside The
Howling"
featurette
- Deleted
scenes
- Outtakes
and more
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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