The Howling (Special Edition)
by Joe Dante
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Actor: Belinda Balaski, Christopher Stone, Dee Wallace, Dennis Dugan, Patrick MacneeDirector: Joe Dante
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Producer: Daniel H. Blatt
Producer: Jack Conrad
Producer: Michael Finnell
Producer: Rob Bottin
Writer: Gary Brandner
Writer: John Sayles
Writer: Terence H. Winkless
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Howling (Special Edition)
Movie Review: The Original & Still The Best
Summary: 5 Stars
THE HOWLING is the best werewolf flick I've ever seen in my lifetime and both Dee Wallace and Elizabeth Brooks do an awesome performance, especially when kids see Dee Wallace transforming into a werewolf on the news at the end of the movie and when Elizabeth Brooks is shown in full frontal nudity before she seduces Christopher Stone to do werewolf sex.
The one thing I found baffling and gross about this movie was when Liz Brooks is in the cafe and the waiter asks her how does she want her hamburger and Liz Brooks says "Rare".
Overall, I would have to say that this was the best Howling of them all, since I didn't care for all the other Howling sequels.
Summary of The Howling (Special Edition)
From the director of Gremlins and Piranha comes the ultimate masterpiece of primal terror. Filled with edge-of-your-seat suspense, "genuine thrills [and] amazing special effects" (Us), this riveting werewolf tale sinks its teeth into your deepest fears and never lets go! Severely traumatized by a near-fatal encounter with a serial killer, TV newscaster Karen White (Dee Wallace) takes time off at a secluded retreat called "the Colony." But when, after nights of being tormented by bestial, bloodcurdling cries, Karen ventures into the woods seeking answers, she makes a terrifying discovery. Now she must fight not only for her life but for her soul!A graduate of Roger Corman's school of low-budget ingenuity, Joe Dante gained enough momentum with 1978's Piranha to rise to the challenge of The Howling, and he brought along Piranha screenwriter John Sayles to cowrite this instant werewolf classic. Makeup wizard Rob Bottin was recruited to create what was then the wildest onscreen transformation ever seen. With Gary Brandner's novel The Howling as a starting point, Sayles and Dante conceived a werewolf colony on the California coast, posing as a self-help haven led by a seemingly benevolent doctor (Patrick Macnee), and populated by a variety of "patients," from sexy, leather-clad sirens (among them Elisabeth Brooks) to an old coot (John Carradine) who's quite literally long in the tooth. When a TV reporter (Dee Wallace) arrives at the colony to recover from a recent trauma, the resident lycanthropes prepare for a howlin' good time.
Dante handles it all with equal measures of humor, sex, gore, and horror, pulling out all the stops when the ravenous Eddie (Dante favorite Robert Picardo, later known as the Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager) transforms into a towering, bloodthirsty werewolf. (Bottin's mentor Rick Baker would soon raise the makeup ante with An American Werewolf in London.) As usual, in-jokes abound, from characters named after werewolf-movie directors, amusing cameos (Corman, Sayles, Forrest J. Ackerman), and hammy inserts of wolfish cartoons and Allen Ginsberg's "Howl." It's best appreciated now as a quintessential example of early-'80s horror, with low-budget limitations evident throughout, but The Howling remains a giddy genre milestone. --Jeff Shannon
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