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The Howling

The Howling (1981)

March. 13,1981
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6.5
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R
| Horror

After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.

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Platicsco
1981/03/13

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

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TrueHello
1981/03/14

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

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SanEat
1981/03/15

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

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Neive Bellamy
1981/03/16

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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MonsterVision99
1981/03/17

"The Howling" came out around the same time as "American Werewolf in London" and its often compared to the Landi's werewolf film, and I think its kinda of unfair, I enjoy "Werewolf in London" more than I enjoy "The Howling" but "The Howling" still manages to be a really effective and fun horror movie.It may not be as memorable or as riveting as "American Werewolf in London" and it may be dull at times but its mostly entertaining, the effects are amazing, it has good performances, its well directed, well written and its well paced. It takes influence from many werewolf films and blends all those elements together to make something original, something all great filmmakers do.overall, a great werewolf movie, its almost as good as "Piranha", quite amusing and engaging.

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vishnu-dileep08
1981/03/18

The movie is all about a woman who encounters a serial killer and keeps getting nightmares after that incident. So to relive herself she is sent off to a far off colony with her husband. But soon the people in the colony did not turn out to be very nice after all.This movie had a very good plot maybe the beginning of the movie was not so good but it soon turned course. The characters did their parts really well. It had all those surprising scares from time to time and also a perfect ending. Looking forward to watching the sequels and will review those titles too.Yes I would recommend this movie to anyone.Notable ActingDee Wallace famous for her movies like ET and many more.Christopher StoneBelinda BalaskiPatrick MacneeElisabeth BrooksMy Rating 8/10

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tstudstrup
1981/03/19

Let me start by saying that for a movie that only last 90 minutes, nothing happens for the first 40 minutes. Some news woman helps catch and kill a serial killer. And she has nightmares about it and is send to a retreat for therapy. But the retreat is really a place were werewolves can be free. And she is send there unknowingly to be bitten and turned herself. It's that retarded.The effects are laughably bad, especially considering An American Werewolf In London came out the same year and The Thing came out the year before. Both movies with effects that still look good today, nearly 40 years later. And considering Joe Dante, who made Gremlins, just 3 years later, also made this, it's down right embarrassing.There are two very long scenes where two people are turned into werewolfs. And when they're done turning they look like people in bad Halloween werewolf costumes. It seems like those scenes are only there to show off really bad special effects makeup.In the second turning scene it takes what feels like 5 minutes for the guy to to turn and the heroine of the movie just stand there and looks at him instead of getting away while she has the chance.The acting is pretty bad and the only interesting scene is when two people have sex and then turn into werewolfes, because the woman is hot and shows her tits.SPOILER OF THE ENDING AHEAD.Eventually after being saved by a colleague, who kills all the werewolves, the news woman is bitten herself. She then transforms, on live television, to warn people about werewolfs. She looks like Catwoman with fur in her face. And then she is shot and killed by her colleague. Well let me warn YOU, do not watch this. This is 90 minutes, that feels like three hours that you won't get back.Why this movie made so much money and spawned so many sequels, is beyond me.

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Irishchatter
1981/03/20

What's all the fuss all about? Sure that blonde newscaster was just going into that sex room because she knew well that she wanted some fun with the wolf man. Also police going into a porn store and hearing her cries, seriously is this about a newscaster going undercover to finding the wolf man or is she gonna do pornography with him? I was just peed off after the first part so i just turned it off. It seemed this movie to me, didn't get the genre right. That's what made me less interested and even the acting too wasn't that great either. A better genre, story line and better actors might do the trick in being a good movie to watch on Halloween!

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