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
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