The Howling (film)

The Howling is a 1981 American horror film from, based on the novel by Gary Brandner. The film was directed by Joe Dante. The film stars Dee Wallace-Stone, Patrick Macnee and Dennis Dugan.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Karen White, a newsreader, is being stalked by a serial killer named Eddie Quist (Robert Picardo). She yokes together with the police to trap to Eddie at a porn theater.Karen lures Eddie, where he forces her to watch a video showing how a young woman is raped. The police arrive and shoot Eddie dead.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Production
 * 3.2 references to other works
 * 3.3 Receipt
 * 3.4 differences from the book
 * Sue 3.5
 * 4 awards and nominations
 * 5 external links

Karen turns out afterwards to suffer from memory loss. Her therapist, Dr. George Waggner, concludes her and her husband to "the colony" to send; an enclosed spa town in the countryside.

The colony turns out to be filled with notable persons, including a nymfomanische woman named Marsha Quist. She tries to seduce Bill. When he refuses her overtures, he is attacked and bitten by a wolf-like creature. Afterwards, he meets Marsha and this time he can not resist its temptations. The two spend the night by the campfire and change both in werewolves.

Meanwhile, Karen calls her friend Terri Fisher to come to the colony. They soon discovers a link between the spa town and Eddie Quist. Karen also begins to suspect that Bill something for her hidden hold. While they research, Terri is attacked by werewolves. She is cornered by the beasts, but can just warn her friend Chris by phone. Who realizes right that it goes to werewolves, and comes armed with silver bullets to the colony.

Karen is confronted by the come back to life Eddie Quist (Robert Picardo). Also he is a werewolf. Karen can escape, and Eddie is later shot by Chris with a silver bullet. Soon discover that Karen and Chris all the people in the colony are werewolves. Also be able to change these werewolves when they want, without the help of the full moon. Karen and Chris burn the colony to avoid flat.

Karen wants afterwards the world go warn of the existence of werewolves. She does a call on television and put her story by spontaneously itself to change into a werewolf (she is bitten during her stay in the colony). She is shot by Chris on live tv. While the people who have seen this on tv surprised left behind with whether it all was real or just trickery, one sees how Marsha Quist has survived the destruction of the colony. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film is an adaptation of the novel The Howling from 1977, written by Gary Brandner. The first scenario for the film was written by Jack Conrad and Terence h. Winkless, but Joe Dante found this scenario not suitable. That is why he hired John Sayles to completely rewrite the scenario. The two previously worked together on the film Piranha (1978). Sayles rewrote the scenario with the same satirical overtones as the film Piranha. His ultimate scenario seemed to be virtually nothing more on the book of the Brandner.

<p lang="en" len="132" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The humorous overtones of the film was strengthened by the actors, who often had played earlier in similar movies.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Howling was also notable because of the special effects, which for that time were experienced as very convincing. The transformation from human to werewolf scenes were provided by Rob Bottin, who also had worked on Piranha. Rick Baker was originally responsible for the special effects, but left the production to work on An American Werewolf in London.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]

<p lang="en" len="544" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Because of their work to The Howling, Dante and producer Michael Finnell got the chance to make the movie Gremlins . ===References to other works<span class="mw-editsection" len="355" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Director Joe Dante has many references to other works in the film in the film stopped, including many to wolves (The big bad Wolf from Walt Disney is seen on a tv, Sheriff Newfield put in a particular scene in a particular eat Wolf Brand Chile, one sees in the film a copy of Allen Ginsberg book Howl appears, and it talks about dj Wolfman Jack).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Many of the characters in the film are named for directors of horror films, especially directors of other werewolf movies: George Waggner (The Wolf Man (1941)), r. William Neill (Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man(1943)), Terence Fisher (The Curse of The Werewolf (1960)), Freddie Francis (Legend of the Werewolf (1975)), Erle Kenton (House of Dracula (1945), Sam Newfield (The Mad Monster (1942)), Charles Barton(Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)), Jacinto Molina (La Marca del Hombre Lobo (1968)) and Lew Landers (The Return of The Vampire (1944)).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film includes cameos by screenwriter John Sayles, Dante's former producer Roger Corman and Forrest j. Ackerman.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2] ===Receipt<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The reviews from critics on The Howling varied. Roger Ebert described the film as "Silliest film seen in some time..."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  Leonard Maltin was more pleased with the film, and also referred to in his book 2002 Movie & Video Guide.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4] ===Differences from the book<span class="mw-editsection" len="349" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Sue<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="42" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Howling got a total of six sequels:
 * In the novel is called Karen White Karyn Beatty. Her husband in the novel is called Roy Beatty instead of Bill Neill in the film. In the book they work neither in front of the television.
 * The novel is set in a mountain village of Drago, spelt in California. The film is set in the "colony", a spa town.
 * In the novel, Karyn is raped in her apartment. In the film, the police can prevent this.
 * Her attacker is in the novel a man named Max Quist, which has no ties with the village of Drago or the werewolves that live there. In the movie his name is Eddie Quist, and he himself is one of the werewolves.
 * Marsha Quist in the novel is called Marcia Lura. In the book she is gene family of Max Quist.
 * In the novel, Karyn and Roy bring a dog to the village, which is later murdered. In the film are dogs not allowed in the colony.
 * The Werewolves in the film are anthropomorphic creatures. In the novel do they look like normal wolves.
 * In the novel is Chris Halloran Roys best friend. In the film he is the friend of Karens girlfriend.
 * In the novel, Karyn escapes unscathed from Drago. In the film, she is bitten by a werewolf, and changed so self in one.

==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Howling In 1981 won the Saturn Award for best horror film. The film was also nominated in the categories best makeup and best special effects.
 * Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf aka. Howling II: Stirba-Werewolf Bitch (a direct sequel).
 * Howling III: The Marsupials
 * Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (a more faithful adaptation of Gary brandner's original the howling novel)
 * Howling V: The Rebirth
 * Howling VI: The Freaks
 * Howling VII: New Moon Rising aka. Howling VII: Mystery Woman.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Likewise in 1981 won the film critics award at the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival.