The Howling [VHS]
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VHS Movie Reviews of The Howling [VHS]
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: Good campy fun from an original
Summary: 4 Stars
I hadn't seen this film in almost 18 years...until I was in the midst of updating my DVD collection and rediscovered it. I was 15 when this film hit the theaters, and back at that time, this movie freaked alot of people out. The story itself, the atmosphere, and the setting all works for me even today. The most talked about scene has always been "Eddie's transformation". I still think it works. Rob Bottin was a young upstart in Hollywood at the time, and had something to prove....which he did spetacularly.
Anyone who knows Joe Dante, should realize all of his films have a certain "tounge-in-cheek" quality.....real horror fans will get the joke and have fun with this movie. In an age where Hollywood seems to be on a major re-make trend..(I've counted 23 films in just the last 2 1/2 years...not counting back the last 10!)..do yourself a favor and watch one of the originals. The effects may seem dated to some, considering the CGI all over the place, but it does still work. Good, campy, spooky fun....
Movie Review: Karen is news reporter
Summary: 5 Stars
And she and her husband go away for some R and R. The town they go, is full of werewolves, only they don't know it.Movie Review: Wouldn't sit through it again...
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this DVD at Wal-mart for under 5 bucks because it was a double feature with the movie Child's Play, which I love. This DVD also had a disk of special features. I had heard really great things about this movie, so I put it in before Child's Play. I didn't like it. I didn't feel any type of connection with any of the characters, and I found myself lokking forward to seeing them get attacked by the werewolves. That was, until the werewolves appeared on screen. There was some tense build up, the only reason I gave this movie 2 stars. The monsters themselves, hilarious in the worst of ways!! I literally couldn't stop laughing!! And the ending....OMG, that was the funniest thing about the movie. This movie was a joke to me, and one that wasn't funny enough to watch again.Movie Review: Fun and Entertaining Werewolf Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
I love Horror films. When talking about the many sub-genres involved and the low percentage of quality horror films, some films stand out as merely "important" rather than achieve a level of greatness (Last House on the Left, Friday the 13th). The Howling is such a film.
When looking at the great werewolf films out there and considering the times they were released, the original Wolfman stands next to An American Werewolf in London as perhaps the greatest Werewolf films of there respective times. The Howling may very well be a challenge to the latter of these two films as the best of it's time. Both were released in 1981, but the Howling was developed before the Landis project. It doesn't really matter, as I do believe An American Werewolf in London to be better film but the Howling is an important film along with being entertaining. Neil Jordon's In the Company of Wolves came out a few years later and is my personal favorite of any in this sub-genre but all that aside, The Howling is a true horror classic and a werewolf movie fan's treasure. It is a must have of hardcore horror fans because it contains and helped identify the many traits we've seen before and after it.
The Howling starts off in a similar vein to that of the original Dawn of the Dead, putting the idea of a werewolf into the mainstream media (disguised as a serial killer) and it ends on a similar note. This allows us to sort of picture this mythical creature on scale with today's society, or at least that of 1981. It's dated and it's thrown right on TV so we can all feel connected. The film is handled as a kind of film noir at first and slowly brings itself from that and into the werewolf sub-genre in fairly atypical fashion. The acting is really only good by it's main protagonist, whose name escapes me. It also has it's share of character actors who we've enjoyed in these kinds of films before. The Howling isn't afraid to laugh at itself either, which I think is almost a must in horror films...it interesting how almost all other notable werewolf movies (i.e. Dog Soldiers, An American Werewolf in London) also make us laugh. This helped me in some respect to look past a lot of the dated special effects and to laugh at them. The film gets more microcosmic later on and sets itself up for some good scares and some eerie and outstanding howls in the night. Unfortunately, the film ends a bit too quickly, but the Howling remains almost as important as An American Werewolf in London for bringing this great myth back to the forefront of horror films again.