The Howling (Special Edition)
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Movie Reviews of The Howling (Special Edition)
Movie Review: A true Werewolf masterpiece!
Summary: 5 Stars
Big city reporter Karen White (Dee Wallace Stone) has been assaulted by a crazed killer at a porno store, she decides to take a little getaway in a forest retreat called "The Colony" where it seems like rest and relaxtion for most travelers. But during at night, weird things start happening especially mysterious murders and wolf cries as Karen discovers a horde of shapeshifting werewolves are out there and want blood.
One of the greatest Werewolf movies ever made! Joe Dante's dark and unique horror thriller is a different take on the werewolf legend then any other hollywood werewolf movie as these werewolves can change at will during the daytime and night. Rob Bottin's make-up effects are groundbreaking in that time especially with Rick Baker's make-up on "An American Werewolf in London" and Joe Dante's direction is fantastic, the film co-stars Dick Miller, John Carradine and Slim Pickens. This movie along with "An American Werewolf in London" brought back the long dead werewolf genre back into the mainstream, it's a real winner!
This special edition DVD has excellent picture and sound with cool extras like audio commentary, a multi-part documentary, an original "Inside The Howling" documentary, deleted scenes, outtakes, photo gallery, and Trailers.
Also recommended: "An American Werewolf in London", "The Company of Wolves", "Fright Night 1 & 2", "Pumpkinhead", "Ginger Snaps", "Wolf", "The Hunger", "Dog Soldiers", "The Fog (1980)", "From Dusk Till Dawn", "The Wolf Man", "Underworld", "The Burning", "Vampire Hunter D", "Vamp", "Werewolf Woman", "Re-Animator", "Grindhouse", "Innocent Blood", "The Lost Boys" and "The Monster Squad".
Movie Review: The Howling
Summary: 5 Stars
Set in the isolated Colony in the mountains, a young newscaster leaves the city after a brush with a serial killer that has been obsessed with having a heart to heart with her. Not long after being there, she comes to find that there is more to her new neighbors than meets the eye, and finds herself trapped by a secluded community of werewolves. To add to the suspense, the killer has gone missing, and files from the retreat prove that he once lived in the same village she now finds herself in. THE HOWLING offers a unique plot line, interesting characters, an extremely creepy atmosphere set by a foreboding forest and fog effects, ground-breaking special effects, and pissed off werewolves. This isn't your daddy's Wolfman; the creatures in this film shred their victims with razor claws and teeth on screen, rather than choking them or alluding to the action off camera. The use of bladders and an array of other brand new effects are implored to create one of the first physical on screen transformations with few cuts, lending credibility to both the makeup and the effectiveness of the creatures. From start to finish, the film is dark and pessimistic, never offering a moment of relief to any of the characters. This succeeds in maintaining the sinister mood, but also makes it more difficult to relate to the protagonists, who are constantly in a state of fear, dread, or panic. It sets itself apart from any other werewolf film before or since, and though I prefer Landis' AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, this is a staple genre film and a must-see for any horror fan!
-Carl Manes
I Like Horror Movies
Movie Review: ah, the howling movies...
Summary: 5 Stars
this is a review for all of the howlings, which i believe are all *excellent* films. bad acting, goofy effects or lack thereof? how could they be so great? i don't think many people can appreciate a bad horror film and fail to see the joy in viewing one. if you take any of the howlings as serious horror films, of course they're not going to be the best movies you've seen. (so the first one was a pretty decent werewolf movie but don't tell me that was superb acting and a little ridiculous- i was subjected to violent pornography so we can't make love. what?!) so if you're not already a fan of bad horror movies, i first suggest that you prepare yourself to view at best, a horror-comedy. anticipate the one-liners and nonsensical scenarios and the werewolf effects that amount to lots and lots of rubber and a guy in what looks like a bigfoot costume. embrace these elements and laugh. laugh heartily. the good thing about these movies is that the plot is never too asinine or to boring to lose interest, in fact they can be quite creative: a group of people stuck in a huge house thing to only find out there's a werewolf amongst them, marsupial werewolves! what more could you possible want? and let's not forget about unecessary sex (howling2) the main ingredient in the formula for a bad -i mean good- movie. in times when presented with movies of this ilk, i say turn a bad situation into a light one. buy all of the howlings and poke fun at them, then move on to the amityville sequels (especially no.4). ^_~
Movie Review: One of the greatest werewolf productions ever!
Summary: 5 Stars
Today`s production standards and special effects make very difficult to understand the historical importance of this film, specially for GINGER SNAPS fans or any contemporary horror film.
The thing is, special effects exist in an effective way, only in a GOOD script, a great, creepy, menacing story like this one. Who cares about digital efects in a great high budget production, if the result is you taking off your seat. The howling was one of the first werewolf films that explores, along with "american werewolf in london", the subject of the transformation from regular guy to man-eating hellhound monster. It made a remarkable achievement in the use of short shots of different transforming parts of the body, attaching them into a full sequence of horrifying effects of latex and creepy sounds. The result was one of the most terrifying transformations, and revolutionary werewolf designs, according to the experience and personality of each character (see the final sequence, a very touching piece of work). All this coming along with one of the strongest most frightening werewolf stories ever filmed.
The howling is a smart horror cinema classic, worth be seing and enjoyed, specially in this edition, a very high quality and complete one, packed with interesting extras. Even more clearly, this movie is STILL THE BEST WEREWOLF MOVIE EVER MADE!
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 & Christopher Stone are deliciously nasty doing werewolf sex showing Liz Brooks in full-frontal nudity showing off her sexy genitals such as cunt, tatas, & ass which easily made Liz eyecandy in this horror flick.
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".
This horror flick also takes me all the way back to memory lane to when we had all those budget cuts going on during the recession we had going on back in 1981-1982 when Ronald Regan was president since I was 9 years old in the 3rd grade at Rockwood Elementry School in Calexico, CA and living in my hometown(El Centro, CA)at the time THE HOWLING was released in all the movie theatres, which was during my childhood days of living in the Imperial Valley.
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.