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Summary: The Incredible Special Effects Must Be Seen To Be Believed!
Review: "The Howling", released in 1980 is, in my opinion, one of the best werewolf movies ever made. I first saw the movie in the theater and it literally made my skin crawl. The werewolf transformation is the best I've ever seen (An American Werewolf In London was good but not like this) in any werewolf movie. Basically, the movie is about a young television anchor woman named Karen White (played by Dee Wallace Stone) who receives phone calls from a killer named Eddie (played by Robert Picardo). She agrees to meet him in a porno shop where he begins his transformation to werewolf while White watches a porno film. Eddie is shot by police in the porno movie room and White escapes unharmed. Having gone thru quite a tramatic experience she and her husband (played by Christopher Stone) go to The Colony, which is a retreat recommended by a psychiatrist (played by Patrick MacNee) for patient's of his to recuperate. It's at the retreat that White begins to notice the people are a bit strange and begins hearing strange howling sounds at night. White's husband becomes the victim of a werewolf bite and goes thru a transformation himself during a hot and steamy scene in the woods with a female patient (played by Elizabeth Brooks) who herself is a werewolf. The movie's most horrifying scene is Eddie's (whom somehow makes it to the retreat after being shot in the head and escapes the police morgue) transformation to werewolf with a number of jaw dropping special effects that is enough to scare just about anyone. Since I've already told a good portion of the story I'll stop here. This "Special Edition" of "The Howling" is worth every cent because of all the extras you get. You have "Unleashing The Beast: Making Of The Howling" a multi-part documentary, Deleted Scenes, Outakes, "Making A Monster Movie: Inside The Howling Documentary", "Audio Commentary With Director Joe Dante, Dee Wallace, Christopher Stone and Robert Picardo", Photo Gallery, and the Original Theatrical Trailers. Not only is the picture quality superb but this "Special Edition" of "The Howling" is newly digitally enhanced in 5.1 surround audio. If you enjoy watching horror movies than this is one that you don't want to miss. Highly Recommended!
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Summary: Fangs For The Memories
Review: After making a splash with the low budget shocker Piranha, director Joe Dante decided to set his sights a bit higher. The Howling is a fun horror film that like, An American Werewolf In London, remains an all time classic of the genre. Due to a traumatic experience, TV reporter Karen White (Dee Wallace Stone, of E.T. fame) decides to get away, in order to recouperate. Her travels take her to "The Colony", a self help retreat in the woods of California. After spending some time with the benevolent Dr. Waggner (Patrick McNee) and his followers, she stumbles onto the terrifying true nature of "The Colony" Dante and Co-writer John Sayles (who also wrote Piranha) team up again for a toungue in cheeck tour de force that's genuinely scary. The cast is populated with great character actors including Robert Picardo, Dick Miller, Slim Pickens, and a cameo by Dante's mentor Roger Corman. The special effects by Rob Bottin were very cool back in '81 and would only be one upped by Rick Baker for the aforementioned An American Werewolf In London. MGM has put together a nifty Special Edition DVD. Viewers can watch the film in either the widescreen or pan and scan formats. The extras are for the most part-do the trick. The best of which is an audio commentary, lifted from the laserdisc with Dante, Dee Wallace, her husband the late Chris Stone, who died in '95 and Picardo. This is a lively track that is fun and revealing. The "Unleashing The Beast" multi part documentary, is good, but would have worked better edited together as one whole, but, has its moments. There's a number of deleted scences that are ok and nice to have. The vintage mini documentary "Making A Monster Movie" is a bit redundant but I didn't mind all that much. Outtakes, a photo gallery, and the theatrical trailers, round it all out. Fans of The Howling will also enjoy the digitally enhanced 5.1 sound mix on this release. It's killer. A must have DVD for any Howling fan
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Summary: Thumbs up 4 THE HOWLING
Review: This werewolf movie rocks.I brought the special edition dvd and
I watched it the other night 4 the 1st time.I watched it alone
in the dark and with the remastered sound and picture I got
scared.I recommend it to everyone that loves werewolf movies and
plus the dvd is at a very low price.The dvd contains lots of
featurettes on how they made the werewolf(pretty cool).Well
just go buy the dvd and you,ll see what i,m talking about.
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Summary: Best of the series
Review: It seems that if a horror movie makes any money at all there will be a stream of never-ending sequels regardless of quality. Usually the original is far superior to any sequels and I think this is certainly the case in the "Howling" series. Here we get this series werewolf mythos spelled out, see the special effects (fair until we get to Dee Wallace-Stone who looks like a puppy or something), and get the idea that there are unknown cultures hiding inthe dark. The plot is fairly well confined and it had me jumping in several places.
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Summary: Few good Werewolf gems.
Review: I am a huge werewolf inthusiast and even though I'm looking forward to the state of the art werewolf effects in such upcoming films like Van Helsing and Underworld, there are only two werewolf film Gems worth a mention. Howling is definately one of the best. Even with the clever story line in American Werewolf in London, Howling is the true werewolf movie. Aside from the awsome effects the movie kept close to the lore and even though the budget was low the quality was amazingly sharp for it's time.The effects top knotch and I still get shivers watching the transformation of Eddie. The dark mood does cover the effects flaws but also brings alot to the mood of the film. The only reason I don't give it a 5 out of 5 is because if your
watchinh it for the first time it will feel dated and might not totally inpress with the level of effects today. The added subtle gore also puts it in the horror genre in a respectable way. The new DVD is a godsent to the fans with the added deleted scenes and making of segments. Thanks to MGM for giving this classic film life again.
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Summary: THE HOWLING IS THE MOST SCARIEST HORROR MOVIE
Review: THE HOWLING IS ONE SCARY HORROR MOVIE. I CAN'T WAIT TO GET IT ON DVD ON THE 26TH OF AUGUST. THE DVD WILL HAVE DELETED SCENES, MAKING OF THE HOWLING, AND OTHER STUFF. THE HOWLING IS FULL OF SURPRISING TWISTS. THE HOWLING WILL AMAZE YOU. THE FIRST TIME I SEEN IT ON HBO I FREAKED OUT. DON'T MISS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO OWN THE HOWLING: SPECIAL EDITION ON DVD.
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Summary: Hasn't aged well
Review: I saw "The Howling" for the first time the day after I watched "An American Werewolf in London" for the first time. Sadly, I do not feel that "The Howling" measures up in storytelling terms. Also, while the transforming special effects are impressive and on a par with "Werewolf," other special effects really fall flat ... most notably a cartoonish silhouette of two wolves mating by a bonfire that is laughable. Also, when we do see the monsters in their full wolfen glory, they resemble nothing more than large Muppets. The storyline here is also a bit fragmented and never really comes together. I had too many questions left in my head after the film. These are not the types of tantalizing questions that filmmakers will dangle before you and lead you to think about for years after (such as the scene in Vertigo when Kim Novak parks her car and stares out the window of a hotel, but then is said to have never been there) but rather such questions in "The Howling" are just the result of plot holes. But the thrills and chills of the film do make it rather enjoyable. Dee Wallace does the best she can, but she has such a quavering voice and unsteady manner the entire film that it can grate on ones nerves after awhile. Christopher Stone as her husband (and real-life husband as well)is given very little to do and even vanishes for a while in the film. More notable are the charismatic late actress Elisabeth Brooks as Marsha Quist, the Colony's witchlike temptress and Belinda Balaski as Terry, Wallace's best friend. Both of these women are very charismatic and add a lot to the film that helps it overcome some absurdities. The cinematography is also splendid, making the fog filled forest primeval look like something out of the darkest of fairytales. This film is definitely worth a look, for all fans of werewolves or those just curious. "The Howling" is supremely entertaining despite its shortcomings. WARNING: If you rent the DVD and are not familiar with the film, do NOT watch the theatrical trailer extra before viewing the film. It gives away a major plot point and twist that could possibly spoil the suspense for you.
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Summary: Good werewolf movie
Review: After an attack,a New York newswoman goes to a resort to recover.Turns out the resort is for werewolves.Her attacker was one of the members of the community she and her husband visit during her recovery.Good movie!
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Summary: Wow!
Review: The Howling will go down as my all-time favorite werewolf movie. The story was good, the acting was pretty good, but what stole the show was the transformation scene. It was ahead of it's time then, and it's still great today. Most people like An American Werewolf in London, but I think it's second to this horror classic.
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Summary: Average....
Review: Dee Wallace Stone stars as a spunky news reporter reporting on the victims of recent serial killer Eddie "The Mangler" in (what I can only assume) is Los Angeles. When Dee herself has a run-in with the killer and is unable to perform work, her psychiatrist recommends she visit "The Colony," a retreat in a remote location of Big Sur. Dee and her mustachioed macho husband travel North to the colony. But trouble besets them from the moment they arrive..Can Dee escape before its too late? I really WANTED to like The Howling. After all, it had several classic elements of horror fiction: Misguided Shrink, Spunky News Reporter misunderstood by everyone and, of course, werewolves. But I just didn't find Howling to be as engrossing as I imagined it would be. I guess I'm more interested in Werewolves and how they got to be that way, than the struggles of the main characters, who just seemed to be cookie cutter types. I also found the rape/snuff style sequence at the beginning of the film to be extremely distasteful. Feh! Discerning viewers might notice several scenes were filmed in Point Lobos State Park, Big Sur.
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