The Howling (Special Edition)
by Joe Dante
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Actor: Belinda Balaski, Christopher Stone, Dee Wallace (II), Dennis Dugan, Patrick MacneeDirector: Joe Dante
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (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: werewolf
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie kept me from sleeping when I saw it as a kid. I still love it today. It is a little dated but the werewolfs and the story are still great even today!
Summary of The Howling (Special Edition)
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
Severely shaken after a near-fatal encounter with a serial killer TV newscaster Karen White (Dee Wallace E.T.) takes some much-needed time off. Hoping to conquer her inner demons she heads for "the Colony" a secluded retreat where her new neighbors are just a tad too eager to make her feel at home. Also there seems to be a bizarre link between her would-be attacker and this supposedly safe haven. And when after nights of being tormented by savage shrieks and unearthly cries Karen ventures into the forestito find answers she makes a terrifying discovery. Now she must fight not only for her life... but for her very soul!System Requirements:Starring: Belinda Balaski Elisabeth Brooks John Carradine Dennis Dugan Patrick Macnee Kevin McCarthy Slim Pickens Christopher Stone Dee Wallace Directed By: Joe Dante Running Time: 91 Min. Color Copyright 2003 MGM Studios.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 027616888471 Manufacturer No: 1004817
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