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THE HOWLING

With Dee Wallace, Dennis Dugan, Patrick Macnee, John Carradine, Kevin McCarthy, Belinda Balaski, Elisabeth Brooks, Slim Pickens

Directed by Joe Dante

Made around the same time as
An American Werewolf In London, these movies breathed new life into the genre with brand new and brilliant special FX by Rick Baker and Rob Bottin respectively (where it was usually a guy in a hairy mask). The Howling gives the werewolf myth a new interesting (and sexual) slant. Wallace plays a news woman who has a close call with a serial killer. She is sent to The Colony to get her head together, but the people there have a hairy secret. Often tongue in cheek, director Dante (who made Piranha and would go on to do the Gremlins movies) proved his talent once again. The screenplay was written by future director John Sayles, and based on Gary Brandner’s novel.
Highly entertaining.

5 / A
- PB


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A - B
- C






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6 - Volcanic
5 - Blistering
4 - Hot
3 - Smolder
2 - Room Temperature
1 - Fizzled
0 - Extinguished

A: Multi-Viewing Potential

B: Could Enjoy A 2nd Look

C: Once Should Suffice



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