Howling

            THE HOWLING
              A Scary, Hairy 2.5 cheeses

      CHARACTERS:
        Karen: A news reporter who's the heroine
        Bill: Her husband
        Terry: Her friend
        Chris: Terry's Boyfriend
        Members of "The Colony": A bunch of freakin' Werewolves

      PLOT:
      After being assulted by a killer, Karen's Doctor thinks that she should
      go to "The Colony" a backwater retreat to get over it. Once there weird           occurenceswhich might have something to do with the man who attacked         her start to happen. Really this is just an excuse to get Karen and her               firends isolated in the woods with a bunch of werewolves.

      Overall the movie is rather boring and slow, but the last 10
      minutes where Chris goes up to "The Colony" with a rifle and
      silver bullets. Then Karen and Chris reveal that werewolves are real on            the news and everyone thinks that it's just a special effect. This
      ending raises the score from a 1 to a 2.5.

      SFX:
      I personally think that even for the time they could have done better
      with most of the special effects. Because An American Werewolf
      In London came out the same year (1981) and has the best
      transformation scene ever. The couple in The Howling just seem like
      special effects that have lost most of their specialness over time and
      the werewolves themselves look mostly like a guy in a suit. Thoguh it
      seems that like, most aspects of this movie they get better closer
      to the end.

      Blood and Giblets:
      Cut off Transforming werewolf hand        Rip out throat
      Acid on guy's face                        Gunshot wounds
      A guy removing a bullet from his head

      What I Learned:
       The Howling puts a whole new twist on werewolf mythology.
        Werewolfs don't need a moon to transform, have super healing
        abilities, can come back to life if killed in any other manner than
        being shot with a silver bullet.

        Also, All used book stoes have books on demons and the like

        Bottom Line:
        I would recomend The Howling to werewolf fans in particular, but
        all of you guys have already seen it. So to other people I'm going to
        have and recommend The Howling only if you've seen American
        Werewolf In London. I did dig the new twist on werewolf mythology               because it gave the movie an original twist. By all means The
        Howling is a very watchable movie, and many consider it a classic.
        I can see why, but I don't think that The Howling has aged very well               since 1981. Check it out because it's still better than most of the other              movies in your videos store's horror section.