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THE HOWLING
U.S., 1981
Directed by Joe Dante
With Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone, Belinda Balaski,
Kevin McCarthy, John Carradine, Slim Pickens, Elisabeth Brooks
Approx. 91 mins. DCP.
“Joe Dante’s loving reboot of the werewolf movie functions as visceral horror (with thanks to Rob Bottin’s inventive air-bladder special effects), social satire (with pokes at the Esalen Institute, thanks to John Sayles’s droll script), and even film scholarship, as Dante piles up references to classic werewolf films and the unsung directors who filmed them. Dee Wallace is a Los Angeles television reporter on the trail of a serial killer with a secret; eventually, the clues lead to “The Colony,” an isolated resort where Dr. George Waggner (Patrick Macnee) presides over some very special patients.” – MoMA
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“THE HOWLING was a chance for Dante to muck around in a genre he loves, and damned if he wasn’t going to have a good time doing it...”
– Scott Tobias, The Guardian
“A perverse, satirical contribution to the oft-maligned werewolf genre.”
– Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness