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The Howling II
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Cover of The Howling II
 aka Return Of The Howling.

Author
Gary Brandner
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
The Howling
Subject
Werewolves
Genre
Horror novel
Publisher
Hamlyn (UK Edition)

Publication date
 1979
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-600-34614-5 (1984 reissue)
OCLC
16430110
Preceded by
The Howling
Followed by
The Howling III: Echoes
The Howling II is a 1979 horror novel by Gary Brandner. It is the first sequel to his 1977 werewolf novel, The Howling. The novel was later republished under the alternative titles: The Howling II: The Return, and also Return Of The Howling.
Despite the ongoing film series that began in the 1980s, The Howling II was not adapted as a film and bears no similarities to the 1985 film Howling II or any of the other "Howling" films. The 2011 film The Howling: Reborn claims to be based on the book (as seen in the credits) though bears no resemblance to it other than being a story about werewolves.
Plot summary[edit]
Three years after the events of The Howling, Karyn Beatty has now remarried and lives in Seattle. Although content with her new life with her husband, David Richter, and her young stepson Joey, she is still haunted by the memories of her terrifying ordeal in the Californian mountain village of Drago with its werewolf inhabitants. Karyn regularly sees a therapist to help work through her problems, but after a spate of sinister occurrences that culminate in the horrific killing of the family's housekeeper, Karyn is convinced that the surviving werewolves of Drago have tracked her down. Fearing for the lives of her new family, Karyn leaves town hoping she will lead the evil creatures away from her loved ones.
Karyn's fears were well founded as she had indeed been tracked down by none other than her ex-husband Roy (now a werewolf) and Marcia Lura, the evil Drago werewolf who first bit him. Both Roy and Marcia survived the fire in Drago, but Marcia is now partially scarred and incapacitated due to being shot in the head with a silver bullet by Karyn at the end of the first novel. Though the bullet did not kill her as expected, it left a streak of silver through her black hair and rendered her unable to fully transform into a werewolf as before. Now, when the moon is full, she becomes a grotesque half-woman/half-wolf creature, and wants revenge for what Karyn did to her.
In Mexico, Karyn tracks down Chris Halloran, the family friend who helped her during her first ordeal in Drago. She tells him that the werewolves of Drago have come for her and she needs his help once more. However, Chris's new girlfriend, Audrey, is jealous of his prior relationship with Karyn and does everything she can to undermine their friendship. When Roy and Marcia finally track Karyn down to Mexico, they set a trap for her at a mountainside cabin with Audrey's help, and close in for the kill. Again, Chris comes to Karyn's rescue and fights with Roy (who takes the form of a wolf). Chris eventually manages to kill Roy with a silver knife, but in the nearby mountainside cabin, Marcia is holding Karyn hostage and is about to torture her using a set of red hot pliers. However, as the full moon rises, Marcia abruptly begins her agonizing change into the half-wolf creature. She drops the pliers which then cause a fire to break out in the cabin, allowing Karyn to escape. Outside, Karyn is reunited with Chris while Marcia (or the creature she has become) burns to death as the cabin goes up in flames.


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The Howling III: Echoes
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The Howling III: Echoes
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Author
Gary Brandner
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
The Howling
Subject
Werewolves
Genre
Horror novel
Publisher
Hamlyn

Publication date
 1985
Media type
Print (Paperback)
Pages
254
ISBN
ISBN 0-09-940730-2
OCLC
59057562
Preceded by
The Howling II
The Howling III: Echoes is a 1985 horror novel by the American author Gary Brandner. It is the third and final book in his Howling series of novels. Like its predecessor, Return Of The Howling, the book has not been adapted for the screen and bears virtually no similarity to the Howling III film or any of the other films in The Howling series. Minor elements of the novel (such as werewolves being used in carnival freak shows) were used in the film The Howling VI: The Freaks, though this idea was actually first seen in the 1975 British horror film Legend of the Werewolf.
Plot[edit]
A year after the Californian mountain village of Drago was destroyed by fire, sinister murders begin to occur in the neighboring town of Pinyon. A teenage boy named Malcolm is found living in the woods, and is one of the survivors of the Drago fire. Also surviving the fire is Derak, the former leader of the Drago community and a werewolf, responsible for the recent deaths. Derak wants to bring Malcolm back to his people, the other survivors of Drago, so that he can learn about his true heritage; Malcolm is also a werewolf.
Malcolm is hospitalized and placed under the care of resident psychiatric specialist Dr Holly Lang, who becomes Malcolm's friend. However, an ambitious and unscrupulous doctor, Wayne Pastory, abducts Malcolm so that he can experiment on him and learn more about werewolves. At a secret clinic, Malcolm is tortured as Pastory conducts cruel experiments on him, but as he is so young, Malcolm is only partially able to transform into a werewolf. Holly discovers the whereabouts of the clinic and tries to rescue Malcolm but she is attacked by Pastory's henchman. Just as he is about to rape her, Derak - in werewolf form - bursts in and kills the henchman. Malcolm is freed by Holly, who is subsequently rescued herself by the Pinyon sheriff, Gavin Ramsay. However, Malcolm runs away before they (or Derak) can take him back to Pinyon.
Over the course of the next year, Malcolm lives as a drifter, wandering throughout California. He eventually meets a man named Bateman Styles who works for a travelling carnival. Seeing that Malcolm has certain abilities (he continues to partially transform into a werewolf), Styles offers him a job working in the carnival freak show as "Grolo - The Animal Boy". Malcolm, without money or a place to live, accepts and the show becomes a minor success. However, publicity leads to Malcolm's picture being published in the press, which is seen by Holly and she travels to see him. She offers Malcolm the choice of returning to Pinyon with her, which Malcolm accepts. However, the publicity has also attracted the attention of Dr Wayne Pastory, who has been dismissed from the Pinyon Hospital over his dubious activities, but is still keen to resume his experiments. He travels to the carnival and tries to make a deal with Styles, who refuses. Pastory tries to strangle Styles, who then has a heart attack and dies. Malcolm, who is hiding nearby, transforms partially into a werewolf and kills Pastory. However, he is surprised to find that Derak has also tracked him down and still wants him to join their people. In order to persuade him, Derak has kidnapped Holly. This prompts Sheriff Ramsay from Pinyon to travel to the carnival to find her. He learns from a female Drago survivor named Lupe that Derak is holding Holly hostage in the mountains until Malcolm joins them. Ramsay makes Lupe take him to where they are hiding, though she begins to transform into a werewolf on the way and Ramsay shoots her with a silver bullet.
In the mountain lair, Malcolm arrives and fights with Derak (who reveals himself to be Malcolm's father) for Holly. The two change into werewolves, but end up killing each other just as Ramsay arrives and rescues Holly and the other members of Derak's group from Drago head off into the forest, now without their leader.
Discontinuities from the previous novels[edit]
Although written by the same author, The Howling III retroactively alters the times and events established in the first two books in favor of a new continuity and features entirely new characters. The characters from the first two books are not even mentioned.
At the end of the original 1977 novel, the village of Drago is burned down after one of the book's characters throws a lit torch at a group of werewolves and it accidentally ignites the surrounding woodland, sweeping through the area and destroying the town. In The Howling III novel, the fire is started deliberately by the people from the neighbouring village of Pinyon who want to rid the area of werewolves. They lock some of the residents of Drago in a barn and purposely set fire to it, burning the town along with it.
The first two books are set in the mid-late 1970s (which is the time they were written and published), as specified by cultural information given (such as the television shows on at the time). The Howling III is clearly set in the mid 1980s, which contradicts the previously established time when Drago was burned down and now moves the event to the 1980s.
The werewolves in the first two novels were described as completely wolf-like, but the werewolves featured in The Howling III are more anthropomorphic (like the werewolves from the 1981 film). They can walk on their hind legs and are over seven feet tall.
The werewolves from the first two novels were only able to change at night time after the sun had gone down (both the first and second novels specifically mention this), whereas the werewolves in The Howling III can change at will at any time of the day.


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Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf
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Howling II:
 Your Sister Is a Werewolf
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later theatrical release poster

Directed by
Philippe Mora
Produced by
Steven A. Lane
executive producer:
Grahame Jennings

Screenplay by
Robert Sarno
Gary Brandner

Based on
Howling II: The Return
 by Gary Brandner
Starring
Christopher Lee
Annie McEnroe
Reb Brown
Marsha Hunt
Sybil Danning
Judd Omen

Music by
Stephen W. Parsons
Cinematography
Geoffrey Stephenson
Editing by
Charles Bornstein
Studio
Hemdale Film Corporation
(Sony Pictures Entertainment)
Release dates
August 28, 1985 (France)

Running time
87 minutes (original)
91 minutes (re-edit)

Country
United States
 United Kingdom
Language
English
Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf (original title: Howling II: Stirba – Werewolf Bitch) is a 1985 horror film directed by Philippe Mora, as a sequel to the 1981 film The Howling.[1][2][3] Although Gary Brandner, author of The Howling novels, co-wrote the screenplay, the Howling II film is largely unrelated to his Howling II novel from 1979, though it does introduce Eastern European customs and Romani into its werewolf mythology like the book.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Main cast
3 Production
4 Critical response
5 Release 5.1 Alternate versions
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
Ben White (Reb Brown) attends the funeral of his sister, journalist Karen White, the heroine of the previous film. Ben meets both Jenny Templeton (Annie McEnroe), one of Karen's colleagues, and Stefan Crosscoe (Christopher Lee), a mysterious interloper who tells him Karen was a werewolf. Providing videotaped evidence of the transformation – and turning up to destroy Karen as her undead body rises from the grave – Crosscoe convinces Ben and Jenny to accompany him to Transylvania to battle Stirba (Sybil Danning), an immortal werewolf queen. Along the way, the trio encounter Mariana (Marsha Hunt), another lusty werewolf siren, and her minion Erle (Ferdy Mayne).
Arriving in the Balkans, Ben and company wander through an ethnic folk festival, unaware that Stirba is off in her nearby castle already plotting their downfall. Stirba seems to have witchcraft powers as well as being a werewolf, for she intones the Wiccan chant Eko Eko Azarak. Eventually, the adventurers battle with Stirba in an assault that involves disguised dwarves, mutilated priests, and supernatural parasites, before Stirba is destroyed by Stefan. Ben and Jenny return home, where they become a couple and are greeted by a trick or treater dressed as a werewolf.
Main cast[edit]
Christopher Lee as Stefan Crosscoe
Annie McEnroe as Jenny Templeton
Reb Brown as Ben White
Marsha Hunt as Mariana
Sybil Danning as Stirba
Judd Omen as Vlad
Ferdy Mayne as Erle
Patrick Field as Deacon
Jimmy Nail as Dom
Steven Bronowski as Moon Devil
Production[edit]
This film is the only Howling sequel that directly follows the original film's events (though presumably with parallel-earth incongruities), and is also the only Howling film to feature the input of the original novelist, Gary Brandner. Brandner was critical of the original 1981 film which was only a loose adaptation of his 1977 novel, and some elements of this sequel may have been deliberately divergent from the previous film, though some (such as this film's ret-conning of that film's ending to be a secret) seem to be accidental.[4]
The film features a sequence in which little-known new wave band Babel play their song "The Howling". Babel were: Stephen W. Parsons (lead singer); Chris Pye (guitar); Simon Etchell (keyboard); Steve Young (drums). Three of these musicians later played in another band, State Project. Etchell composed the theme for UK TV show Catchphrase as well as many other TV signature tunes and later the soundtrack for the movie Vanished(2009).
Director Philippe Mora related how the film was set to celebrate the ten-thousandth birthday of bi-curious werewolf queen Stirba and was inspired by New Wave eroticism. He revealed that actors Reb Brown and Annie McEnroe were so bad in their roles that veteran Christopher Lee, acted off-set in a manner as if "wishing himself away".[5] Also revealed was that the scene with Sybil Danning revealing her substantial bare breasts was repeated seventeen times during the end credits screen crawl.[5] For most other scenes in the movie Danning was either covered with hair (per her character's werewolf nature) or wearing a metallic armoured outfit and sunglasses.
While most of the film was shot on locations in what was, at the time, the country of Czechoslovakia - for example in the ossuary in Mělník, a town in Central Bohemia (which the story incorrectly claims to be in Transylvania), as well as at Barrandov Studios, Prague, some scenes were shot in Los Angeles.[6]
Shooting in then-Soviet-controlled Prague offered difficulties: Mora's government-assigned assistant director knew nothing of filmmaking. Mora had to "literally import trash from America to clutter the clean communist streets".[5] When a local casting call went out looking for "punks", a thousand individuals arrived, resulting in the local authorities calling in the both the police and military. Mora was advised by an army colonel, "you can finish shooting the scene, but they'll have to leave in groups of no more than three."[5]
Co-stars Marsha Hunt and Christopher Lee previously together appeared in Dracula AD 1972. In 1990, when Lee was cast in Gremlins 2: The New Batch, one of the first things he did was apologise to director Joe Dante (who also directed The Howling) for being in this film.[7]
Critical response[edit]
Roger Ebert spoke toward Sybil Danning's work in the film and wrote that although it was close, it was "not the worst movie Danning has made."[1] In noting the film's heroes becoming involved in the inept and "strange rituals of the cult of Stirba", he concedes that "that no one presides over a ritual quite as well as Sybil Danning".[1] The scene where she rips open her dress is repeated twice during the closing credits, "providing the movie with its second and third interesting moments."[1]
Variety offered that while Christopher Lee brought experience to his role as vampire hunter Stefan Crosscoe, the film lacks suspense and the plot is generic and predictable. They noted that despite the film being shot primarily in Czechoslovakia, production did not take full advantage of the setting.[6]
Brian J. Dillard of Allrovi called it a "laughable exercise in horror-sequel tomfoolery", which "strays into so-bad-it's-good camp appeal."[8] He noted that the sex appeal of Sybil Danning and work of veteran horror stars Christopher Lee and Ferdy Mayne were used as substitutes for "the wit and inventive effects work that characterized the original."[8] In noting the script's overuse of horror genre clichés, he was able to praise Danning's work for its keeping the film from being too serious. He concluded by writing "later Howling sequels would drift into a more polished form of banality, but for utter what-were-they-thinking ineptitude, it's hard to beat this wretched howler."[8]
Release[edit]



 Original theatrical poster
Hemdale Films had original theatrical release in France and England in 1985, before theatrical release in the United States in January 1986. Among its international release titles, it is known as Aullidos 2: Stirba, la mujer lobo or Aullidos 2 in Spain, Aullido 2 in Mexico, Üvöltés 2. - A nővéred egy vérfarkas in Hungary, Howling II - L'ululato in Italy, Hurlements II in France, Das Tier II in Germany, I gynaika lykanthropos (Greek script: Η γυναίκα λυκάνθρωπος) in Greece, and Vampiros em Fúria in Portugal. In later US release, the film was marketed with the tagline "The rocking, shocking new wave of horror!"
MGM Home Entertainment had commercial re-release of the DVD for Your Sister Is a Werewolf in 2005,[9] and released it again in 2010 as part of a two-disk set which included both 1985's Your Sister Is a Werewolf and 1981's The Howling.[10]
Alternate versions[edit]
The original theatrical release version of Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch ran 87 minutes. This version was released on VHS from HBO / Cannon Home Video and Home Video. The re-edited TV version ran 91 minutes, and included a new scene before the end credits, plus a brand new end credits sequence in order to replace the topless shots of Sybil Danning in the original's R rated end sequence. The TV end credits also include music whereas the theatrical version is silent.
The film failed to garner as much attention or commercial success as the original film. In later years, The Howling II acquired a cult following,[citation needed] perhaps due to the presence of cult actors Sybil Danning, Reb Brown and Christopher Lee.
The film is mentioned in the Yo La Tengo song From a Motel 6 in the line "I climb where I can see / you're close but I won't reach. / Blank stare at the TV / THE HOWLING II's on Channel 3 / I drift off to sleep / while the snow falls on the screen".
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d Ebert, Roger (April 7, 1986). "review: Howling II". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
2.Jump up ^ Jane , Ian (August 23, 2005). "DVD review: Howling 2:Your Sister Is a Werewolf". DVD Talk. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
3.Jump up ^ "The Howling II... Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985)". The New York Times. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
4.Jump up ^ Documentary on The Howling DVD, Regions 1 and 2
5.^ Jump up to: a b c d Adams, Michael (2010). Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies. HarperCollins. p. 17. ISBN 0061806293.
6.^ Jump up to: a b staff (December 31, 1984,). "review: Howling II - Your Sister Is a Werewolf". Variety. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
7.Jump up ^ Joe Dante's DVD audio commentary for Gremlins 2: The New Batch.
8.^ Jump up to: a b c Dillard, Brian J. "review: Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf". Allrovi. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
9.Jump up ^ "MGM DVD release: Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf". Allrovi. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
10.Jump up ^ "The Howling/The Howling II (2 Discs)". Allrovi. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
External links[edit]
Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf at the Internet Movie Database
Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf at AllMovie
Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf at Rotten Tomatoes


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Howling III: The Marsupials
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Directed by
Philippe Mora
Produced by
Philippe Mora
Charles Waterstreet
executive
Steven A. Lane
 Robert Pringle
 Edward Simons
Written by
Gary Brandner
Philippe Mora
Based on
The Howling III: Echoes
 by Gary Brandner
Starring
Barry Otto
Imogen Annesley
 Leigh Biolos
 Ralph Cotterill
Music by
Allan Zavod
Cinematography
Louis Irving
Editing by
Lee Smith
Distributed by
Screen Media Films
Release dates
13 November 1987

Running time
94 minutes
Country
Australia
Language
English
Budget
$2 million[1] or $1 million[2]
Howling III (also known as Howling III: The Marsupials and Marsupials: The Howling III) is a 1987 Australian horror sequel to The Howling, directed by Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf director Philippe Mora and filmed on location in and outside Sydney, Australia.[3] The film has several subplots including scientists experimenting on werewolves, a young werewolf woman Jerboa searching for a better life, and soldiers hunting them.
Although Gary Brandner approved the director's purchase of the right to the name The Howling and the screen credits claim that it is based on Brander's The Howling III, the film is unrelated to Gary Brandner's novel The Howling III: Echoes, which is set in the U.S.A. and has an entirely different plot. The movie does have slight similarities in terms of plot and sympathetic view of the werewolf. This aspect would be revisited in Howling VI: The Freaks.


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2 Production and release
3 In popular culture
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
The Australian werewolves have evolved separate from the rest of the werewolf population. They are marsupials - the female werewolves give birth to partly developed young which then makes its way to a pouch.
Backmeyer, an Australian anthropologist, has somehow obtained footage filmed in 1905 which appears to depict Australian Aborigines ceremonially sacrificing a wolf-like creature. We also see a scene of a werewolf killing in Russia. Reports of this reach Beckmeyer and he seeks an audience with the US President to try and convince him that there is a widespread case of werewolfery afoot in the world. The President (Michael Pate) is dismissive. Meanwhile, a young Australian woman who is a werewolf named Jerboa Jerboa (Imogen Annesley) runs away from the rest of her clan in a small country town to avoid her step-father's sexual abuse. The name of Annesley's character is taken from that of the Australian desert rodent jerboa.
She winds up sleeping on a park bench in Sydney, near the Opera House, where she is spotted by an American man named Donny (Lee Biolos). The young man is infatuated with her instantly. He chases the frightened girl through the park before finally catching up and telling her that she would be perfect for the female lead in a horror film he is helping to make, Shape Shifters Part VIII. While filming in Sydney's Hyde Park - Jack Citron (Frank Thring) is the director of the film being shot around the Archibald Fountain - Jerboa and Donny fall in love and go to bed together. While they are in bed, and we hear the track "Bad Moon Rising" in its cover version by Australian band The Reels, Donny sees that Jerboa's lower abdomen is covered in downy white fur and what appears to be a long scar.
While at the wrap party for Shapeshifters, Jerboa is exposed to strobe lights; the flashing lights cause her to start changing into her werewolf form. She flees the party, running along George Street but Donny is in hot pursuit. Unfortunately, she runs into traffic and, though not shown on screen, seems to be have been hit by a car. The doctors at the hospital realize that there is something very strange about their patient's physiology. She has striped fur on her back (like on the Thylacine), and a pouch. In a cameo in the hospital scene is long-serving Australian film critic Bill Collins as a doctor.
Meanwhile Beckmeyer's father disappeared in the Outback shortly after recording a film of tribal villagers apparently killing a werewolf. This is shown on a silent black and white film. His investigation is short lived, because three of Jerboa's sisters (disguised as nuns) show up and take her back to Flow ('wolf' spelled backwards) after killing several people. Deprived of a werewolf, Beckmeyer and Sharp spend the evening watching a visiting ballet troupe practice. However, they get to see Olga suddenly transform into a werewolf. The Professor learns of a connection with Serbian werewolves and elicits the help of defector Russian ballerina Olga; and soon falls in love with her, while trying to help her escape a gang of angry hunters keen to eradicate the rabid marsupials.
Jerboa meanwhile gives birth to a baby werewolf that she assists to crawl up her abdomen by using her spit to wet down her abdomen fur to make a pathway for it to reach her pouch. Meanwhile, Donny finds out that his girlfriend was from Flow and goes to find her. Instead, Jerboa smells Donny nearby and goes to him. They flee into the hills.
A government task force captures the werewolf clan, but not before having several soldiers killed. Beckmeyer frets over the injustice done to the werewolves (including the U.S. Army hunting them in 1889), before freeing Olga and Thylo. The trio escape into the Outback and eventually finds Donny, Jerboa, and the baby. They are pursued, but Thylo and another werewolf massacre the hunters at the expense of their own hides.
Together with Jerboa and Donny, he and Olga stay hidden at an idyllic riverside camp, avoiding human contact, raising their kids. Olga falls in love with Beckmeyer. The family establishes a homestead and lives in peace for a time. At long last, the younger two grow weary of the sylvan life and they leave, intending to return to the city and establish new identities. Jerboa and Donny eventually move out, but the Beckmeyers remain - until years later they all end up in Hollywood ...
The final scene features Olga and Beckmeyer watching an awards show on television. It is revealed Jerboa has changed her name to Loretta Kaas and that ironically she has won the best actress award. When she comes to the stage to accept it, however, the flashing cameras and stage lights cause her to change into a werewolf. This causes a chain reaction causing Olga to turn into a werewolf, and presumably all the other werewolves watching have undergone a transformation as well. The final shot shows a picture of a thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, a marsupial carnivore which was hunted to extinction by Australian farmers to protect their sheep. It was the inspiration for the film.
Production and release[edit]
This film is considered a stand-alone film in the Howling series. Despite director Philippe Mora also directing Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch, this film features no references or characters from the previous two films. The werewolves in this film are also portrayed more sympathetically. However, this sequel could also be said to be the most faithful to Joe Dante's original The Howling, as it features a similar tongue-in-cheek sense of humour and references to previous werewolf media and its ending could be seen as a parody of the earlier film's.
Although Howling II had been successful, Mora had been unhappy with the story and the fact the producers added some extra shots after he left, such as additional shots of breasts. Mora wanted to make a third movie himself to make amends and raised the money himself with co-producer Charles Waterstreet.[4]
The film was first released on DVD by Elite Entertainment in 2001. The DVD contained a widescreen print of the film, trailers, and an audio commentary by the director. The DVD has since been discontinued. In 2007, Timeless Media Group released another DVD of the film and a Blu-ray release. Both contained no bonus material and a pan and scan version of the film.
The film was very successful on video rental and cable TV movie channels in the United States and Latin America in the 1980s and early 1990s.
In popular culture[edit]
The main characters in Death In Brunswick watch Howling III.
The film is spoofed in a 1991 episode of The Simpsons where Space Mutants V has the Space Mutants having marsupial variants with pouches.
Nicole Kidman was originally slated to play the role of Jerboa.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Australian Productions Top $175 million", Cinema Papers, March 1986 p64
2.Jump up ^ Philippe Mora, 'Werewolves du jour: Philippe Mora on the making and selling of Australian myth', ACMI, June 2008 accessed 28 September 2012
3.Jump up ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p106
4.Jump up ^ Nick Roddick, "Mora way of life", Cinema Papers, January 1987 p9
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Howling IV: The Original Nightmare
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Howling IV:
 The Original Nightmare
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Directed by
John Hough
Produced by
Harvey Goldsmith,
 Steven A. Lane,
 Avi Lerner,
 Robert Pringle,
 Edward Simons,
 Harry Alan Towers,
Written by
Gary Brandner (novel),
 Freddie Rowe,
 Clive Turner
Starring
Romy Windsor,
 Michael T. Weiss,
 Antony Hamilton,
 Susanne Severeid
Music by
David George,
 Barrie Guard,
 Justin Hayward
Cinematography
Godfrey A. Godar
Editing by
Malcolm Burns-Errington,
 Claudia Finkle
Distributed by
Warner Bros.
Release dates
1988

Running time
94 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$2,000,000
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare is a 1988 direct-to-video horror film. It is a sequel to The Howling, and was directed by John Hough from a screenplay by Freddie Rowe and Clive Turner.[1]
It stars Romy Windsor, Michael T. Weiss, Antony Hamilton, Susanne Severeid, and Lamya Derval. International Video Entertainment (IVE) released this film directly to home video in 1988. Platinum Disc Corporation released it to DVD in 2004. It was filmed on location in South Africa. The back of the DVD shows scenes from Howling III.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Reception
3 Conception
4 Sequels
5 Music
6 Notes
7 External links

Plot[edit]
After experiencing visions of a nun, author Marie Adams (Romy Windsor) is in the middle of a meeting with her agent, Tom Billings (Antony Hamilton), when she has another vision of a wolf-like creature lunging from a fire, and begins to scream hysterically. Marie’s husband, Richard (Michael T. Weiss), discusses her condition with her doctor, agreeing that Marie’s overactive imagination is leading her into some dangerous territory. The doctor advises Richard to take Marie away from the pressures of her life for a few weeks. Richard locates a cottage in the small town of Drago, some hours from Los Angeles. Tom drives Marie there, but then departs quickly in the face of Richard’s unconcealed hostility. Marie looks around the cottage and declares it to be perfect; but that night, while she and Richard are making love, Marie is disturbed by the sound of howling out in the woods.
The next day, Marie and Richard look around Drago, where they meet the mysterious Eleanor (Lamya Derval), a local artist who owns a shop of antiques and knick-knacks, and the Ormsteads, who run the local store. Marie takes her dog for a walk, and becomes distressed when he runs off. That night, Marie dreams of wolves, of herself running through the woods, and of the same nun of whom she had visions. Richard drives into L.A. for a meeting, and Marie spends time chatting with Mrs Ormstead, who tells her about the previous couple to occupy the cottage, and that they left town without a word. Marie is walking home through the woods when, suddenly, she sees before her the nun of her visions. She runs after her – but it turns out to be Eleanor in a dark cape. Eleanor points out a short-cut to the cottage, which Marie takes. On the way she discovers a cave, and what’s left of her dog.
In horror, Marie runs through the woods, suddenly aware that she is being pursued. At the cottage, Richard quiets his hysterical wife and checks outside, but sees nothing; not even the dark figure nearby. The next morning, Marie witnesses a strange apparition: an elderly man and woman who appear in her living-room and who warn her to go away. Marie is momentarily distracted by a car pulling up outside, and the next instant her ghostly visitors are gone. The newcomer is Janice Hatch (Susanne Severeid), who is holidaying in the area and is a fan of Marie’s writing. Marie invites her in and, as they are talking, mentions the howling that she hears at night.
After some hesitation, Janice reveals that she used to be a nun, and that her closest friend, Sister Ruth (Megan Kruskal), disappeared over a year ago, only to be found in Drago speaking incoherently of the devil, and a bell, and the sound of howling. After a long illness, Ruth died without ever being able to explain what happened to her; and Janice, determined to discover the truth, left the convent. Marie is disturbed by the mention of a nun, and becomes even more so when Janice shows her a photograph of Sister Ruth: it is the nun from her visions. Meanwhile Richard, becoming frustrated with Marie's instability and visions, becomes drawn to Eleanor and sleeps with her.
Marie eventually learns that all the inhabitants of the village are werewolves and Sister Ruth was babbling 'Werewolves here' rather than 'We're all in fear' as everyone had assumed. When she tells Richard what she's learned, he angrily dismisses her claims and goes for a walk in the woods by their house. As he's walking, he sees Eleanor seemingly waiting for him. As the two begin to get intimate, Eleanor transforms into a werewolf, bites Richard, and runs off. He stumbles back to the house and tells Marie he saw the werewolf. But that night after being examined by the town doctor, he claims he just fell down. Richard begins acting strangely and the next night as he's walking in the woods, transforms into a werewolf as the villagers, who are also revealed as werewolves look on and then attempt to attack Marie.
Marie escapes and following the storyline of the original folk tale she lures the inhabitants to the local church using its' bell and then burns them all alive, including Richard. The film ends with a burning werewolf lunging at Marie out of the fire just as she had foretold in her vision.
Reception[edit]
[icon] This section requires expansion. (March 2010)
This film has not generally been well received by horror fans due to little on-screen werewolf activity. Fangoria awarded the film its 1988 Golden Chainsaw award for Best Direct-to-Video Feature.
Conception[edit]
This film's story bears a close resemblance to the plot of the first film, and in fact is a much more faithful adaptation of Gary Brandner's original Howling novel than the original film. It does, however, differ in some key ways, for example; character names are changed (presumably due to them having been used in the original film) and Max Quist, a rapist who is the catalyst for the events of the original The Howling novel and inspiration for the character of Eddie Quist in the original The Howling film is not featured by any name in this film. Instead, Marie's trauma is left ambiguous, though it is suggested that her visions are supernatural.
Sequels[edit]
Co-writer Clive Turner appears in the film as a tow truck driver. Turner also worked on the subsequent Howling V: The Rebirth and wrote and directed the seventh film in the "Howling" series, Howling: New Moon Rising.
Music[edit]
The film's theme song "Something Evil, Something Dangerous" was performed by Justin Hayward, lead singer of The Moody Blues.
Notes[edit]


 This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (March 2010)
1.Jump up ^ Variety film review; 23 November 1988
External links[edit]
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare at the Internet Movie Database
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Howling IV: The Original Nightmare at Rotten Tomatoes
And You Call Yourself a Scientist - Howling IV (extensive plot summary and review)


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Howling V: The Rebirth
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Howling V:
 The Rebirth
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Directed by
Neal Sundstrom
Produced by
Gary Barber
Harvey Goldsmith
 Steven A. Lane
 Robert Pringle
 Edward Simons
 Clive Turner
Written by
Source novels:
Gary Brandner
Screenplay:
 Freddie Rowe
 Clive Turner
Starring
Phil Davis
 Victoria Catlin
 Elizabeth Shé
 Ben Cole
 Lee Pembleton
Music by
The Factory
Cinematography
Arledge Armenaki
Editing by
Claudia Finkle
 Bill Swenson
Distributed by
Lionsgate
Release dates
1989

Running time
96 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$2,000,000
Howling V: The Rebirth is a 1989 direct-to-video horror sequel to The Howling. It was directed by Neal Sundstrom from the screenplay by Freddie Rowe and Clive Turner, and filmed in Budapest, Hungary.
Like most of the other The Howling films, it is only loosely based on "The Howling" series of novels by Gary Brandner. While the plot of this film seems largely derivative of The Beast Must Die, the setting of a large castle (rather than that film's mansion) and the castle's backstory are taken from the narrative of the original The Howling novel, where it served as the backstory of a town named Dradja.
It stars Phil Davis, Victoria Catlin, Elizabeth She, Ben Cole, and William Shockley. 96 minutes, rated R. The movie was released on 2 DVD copies as a double feature with Howling VI: The Freaks in 2003 by Artisan Home Entertainment and in 2007 by Timeless Media Group.
Plot[edit]
After being shuttered for over 500 years following a horrific, intentionally staged family massacre, a mysterious Hungarian castle opens its doors with the apparent intention of attracting tourist business. A diverse group of people from different parts of the globe is assembled at the eerie dwelling after having been chosen when they applied for a visa. But once they arrive some begin to wonder if there is more going on than meets the eye. First they hear terrible stories about savage packs of wolves that used to roam the area and then people begin to disappear, only some of whom are found later with their throats torn out. It soon becomes clear that a murderer is among them, and the culprit may only partially be human.
However, as the story progresses and the ultimate truth is revealed, ties between predator, prey and the very castle itself will be fatally exposed.
Cast[edit]
Philip Davis as The Count
Victoria Catlin as Dr. Catherine Peake
Elizabeth Shé as Marylou Summers
Ben Cole as David Gillespie
William Shockley as Richard Hamilton
Mark Sivertsen as Jonathan Lane
Stephanie Faulkner as Gail Cameron
Mary Stavin as Anna
Clive Turner as Ray Price
Nigel Triffitt as The Professor
Jill Pearson as Eleanor
József Madaras as Peter
Renáta Szatler as Susan
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Howling VI: The Freaks
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Howling VI:
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Directed by
Hope Perello
Produced by
Robert Pringle
Written by
Kevin Rock
Starring
Brendan Hughes
Bruce Payne
Michele Matheson
Music by
Patrick Gleeson
Cinematography
Edward Pei
Editing by
Adam Wolfe
Distributed by
Lionsgate
Release dates
1991

Running time
102 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$2,000,000
Howling VI: The Freaks is a 1991 direct-to-video horror sequel to The Howling. It was directed by Hope Perello, from the screenplay by Kevin Rock.
As with most of The Howling films, it is only very loosely based on the novels by Gary Brandner and not a direct adaptation of any of them. It does bear some similarities with the novel The Howling III: Echoes in both the freak show aspect and its sympathetic view of the werewolf, something otherwise only seen in the film series during Marsupials.
The film stars Brendan Hughes, Bruce Payne, Michele Matheson, Sean Gregory Sullivan, and Carol Lynley. Artisan Home Entertainment and Timeless Media Group has released this film along with Howling V: The Rebirth as a double feature on DVD.


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2 Main cast
3 Reception
4 References
5 External links

Synopsis[edit]
Ian, a likeable but severely solitary drifter, takes a job making repairs at the local church in the barren rural town of Canton Bluff. Eschewing human contact, Ian seems unnaturally leery of the impending full moon. Aware that Ian is a genuine werewolf, R.B. Harker (the owner of a traveling carnival) captures and forces the young man to work for his carnival, where he is put on display with other human oddities. To further complicate matters, Harker is revealed to have a monstrous secret of his own - he is a vampire.
Main cast[edit]
Brendan Hughes as Ian
Michele Matheson as Elizabeth
Sean Gregory Sullivan as Winston
Antonio Fargas as Bellamey
Carol Lynley as Miss Eddington
Jered Barclay as Dewey
Bruce Payne as R.B. Harker (as Bruce Martyn Payne)
Gary Cervantes as Sheriff Fuller (as Carlos Cervantes)
Christopher Morley as Carl/Carlotta
Deep Roy as Toones
Randy Pelish as Pruitt
Ben Kronen as Hank
John A. Neris as Earl Bartlett
Al White as Carny Worker
Jeremy West as Lester
Reception[edit]
The reception for this film was somewhat mediocre at best. Leonard Maltin wrote in his book 2002 Movie & Video Guide that Howling VI is "Intelligentally written, especially for this series, but pretentious with vague Ray Bradburyesque undertones". The DVD & Video Guide 2004 noted that "Special effects that leave a lot to be desired diminish this really strange entry in the long-running werewolf series". One reviewer stated that "H. B. Harker played by Bruce Payne is the one thing that makes this film watchable. His unrepentantly evil Harker is wonderful, aristocratic, neither over or underplayed."[1]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://brucesangels.com/brucereviews1.html
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Howling: New Moon Rising
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Howling: New Moon Rising
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Directed by
Clive Turner
Produced by
Harvey Goldsmith,
 Edward Simons,
 Clive Turner
Written by
Gary Brandner (novels),
 Clive Turner
Starring
John Ramsden,
 Jack Huff,
 Ernest Kester,
 Clive Turner,
 Elizabeth Shé,
 Romy Windsor
Music by
Guy Moon
Cinematography
Andreas Kossak
Editing by
Clive Turner
Distributed by
New Line Cinema
Release dates
1995

Running time
90 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$250,000
Howling: New Moon Rising (also known as Howling VII and Howling VII: Mystery Woman) is a 1995 direct-to-video horror sequel to The Howling and the seventh film in Howling film series, directly succeeding Howling VI: The Freaks.[1] The movie was written and directed by Clive Turner. Turner also starred in the film as Ted Smith, a man that has arrived in a small western town with his own personal agenda.
New Moon Rising utilizes footage from the previous three sequels in the Howling series, Howling IV: The Original Nightmare, Howling V: The Rebirth, and Howling VI: The Freaks, and features characters from each movie.


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2 Cast
3 Reception
4 References
5 External links

Synopsis[edit]
An Australian man named Ted, intricately connected to the previous three Howling films, arrives in a small western town where he begins to mingle with the local townsfolk, secretly recording his own enigmatic agendas into a tape recorder in his hotel room. At the same time a number of mysterious slayings appearing to be the work of a large animal begin to occur in the area. A detective investigates the case, helped by a priest who is certain the killings are the work of a werewolf, leading the two of them to uncover several clues that connect events from the majority of the latter part of the series.
Cast[edit]
John Ramsden as Detective
Ernest Kester as Ernie
Clive Turner as Ted Smith
John Huff as Father John
Elizabeth Shé as Mary Lou
Jaqueline Armitage as Jaqueline
Jim Lozano as Jim
Robert Morwell as Bob
Jim Brock as Brock
Cheryl Allen as Cheryl
Sally Harkham as Eveanne
Claude Allen as Pappy
Harriet Allen as Harriet
Bonnie Lagassa as Bonnie
Jack Holder as Jack
Reception[edit]
Critical reception for New Moon Rising has been predominantly negative and TV Guide remarked that the movie was "a new low for the franchise."[2][3] Cinema Crazed and Dread Central both heavily panned the film, and Cinema Crazed commented that "Asking anyone to watch “The Howling: New Moon Rising” should be punishable by jail time and some kind of psychological examination."[4][5] Bloody Disgusting also gave a negative review, stating that the movie "ranks right up there with Troll 2 as the most hilarious bad movie ever made" and that they believed that the movie kept the names of the actors and the town to "cut down on the people forgetting each others names because they had a hard enough time remembering their lines".[6]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Billington, Alex. "Unexpected 'Howling Reborn' Project Comes Out of Nowhere". First Showing. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
2.Jump up ^ "The Howling: New Moon Rising (review)". TV Guide. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
3.Jump up ^ "The Series Project: The Howling". Crave Online. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
4.Jump up ^ "The Howling VII: New Moon Rising (review)". Cinema Crazed. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
5.Jump up ^ Serafini, Matt. "Saturday Nightmares: The Howling: New Moon Rising". Dread Central. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
6.Jump up ^ "Howling: New Moon Rising (review)". Bloody DIsgusting. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
External links[edit]
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The Howling: Reborn
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Directed by
Joe Nimziki
Produced by
Kevin Kasha
 Joel Kastelberg
 Ernst Etchie Stroh
Written by
Gary Brandner (novel),
 Joe Nimziki
 James Robert Johnston
Starring
Lindsey Shaw
Landon Liboiron
Ivana Miličević
Music by
Christopher Carmichael
 Mark Anthony Yaeger
Cinematography
Benoit Beaulieu
Editing by
James Coblentz
Distributed by
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Release dates
October 18, 2011
[1]
Running time
92 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
The Howling: Reborn is a 2011 werewolf-themed horror film written by Joe Nimziki and released direct to video on 18 October 2011.[1]


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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
The film opens with a woman named Kathryn Kidman being attacked, and seemingly killed by a werewolf. After many years her son Will is living with his father and is a student in a highly secured school. His best friend Sachin is making a horror project film and is planning to broadcast it by hacking into news channels illegally. Will has a crush on Eliana Wynters, but her current boyfriend scares him off.
Later Eliana invites him for a night party where then, suddenly, a creature attacks. Somehow Will escapes. He later asks Sachin about his ideas on werewolves. He tests himself by causing a wound which heals itself nearly instantaneously, proving that he is a werewolf.
Afterwards, it is revealed that Kathryn is still alive and a werewolf herself, and became accustomed to the life of one. Kathryn kills Will's father and comes for him in school to remind him who he is. Confronted by the truth that his mother is a werewolf, he saves Eliana from being attacked by other members of the wolf pack. But the school bells ring and its security system gets activated, cutting them off from the outside world.
Will remembers Sachin's advice that werewolves can only be killed by silver bullets or fire and both of them equip themselves with handmade flame throwers. In the security room they discover Sachin being killed by one of the werewolves, so they go in the basement, only to find that Kathryn is raising an army of werewolves.
They escape. In the process Will kills a werewolf by stabbing it with a silver trophy. Afterwards Eliana forces Will to turn her into a werewolf, which he is reluctant to do. He somehow manages to stop himself from doing so when he accidentally scratches her back with his claws.
When making an escape Eliana is taken by Kathryn to force Will to become a werewolf. They both battle each other, but Kathryn is too powerful to be killed by silver bullets. It's then that he realizes she is the alpha. Just when she is about to kill him another werewolf attacks her by ripping her heart out. Will realizes that the werewolf is none other than Eliana, who is transformed because of her wounds. They burn the school down so that the other newborn werewolves can't escape.
In the post credit scenes it's shown that the video created by Will showing his transformation and warning the world about werewolves existence is circulated all over the world, and humans prepare to battle against the newborn force.
Cast[edit]
Lindsey Shaw as Eliana Wynter
Landon Liboiron as Will Kidman
Ivana Miličević as Kathryn Kidman
Jesse Rath as Sachin
Niels Schneider as Roland
Frank Schorpion as Jack Kidman
Kristian Hodko as Tribe
Production[edit]
The film is virtually unrelated to the previous installments, except in name only. The credits state that the film is based upon the novel The Howling II by Gary Brandner, however it has very little in common with the novel other than being a story about werewolves.
Production began on the film in Canada in May 2010.[2] The film was released direct to video in late October 2011.[3]
Anchor Bay Entertainment released The Howling: Reborn on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on the 9th April, 2012.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "Anchor Bay Films "Bays" At The Moon With The Howling Reborn on Blu-ray and DVD!". Anchorbay Entertainment. 2011-08-24. Retrieved 2011-10-08.
2.Jump up ^ "Plot Details For 'The Howling Reborn'". bloodydisgusting.com. 2010-03-15.
3.Jump up ^ "'The Howling is Reborn in October'". BloodyDisgusting.com. 2011-08-24.
External links[edit]
Official UK Forum
The Howling: Reborn at the Internet Movie Database
The Howling: Reborn at AllMovie
The Howling: Reborn at Rotten Tomatoes


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Junoon (1992 film)
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Junoon
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Directed by
Mithun
Written by
Robin Bhatt
Based on
An American Werewolf in London by John Landis
Starring
Rahul Roy
Avinash Wadhawan
Pooja Bhatt
Music by
Nadeem-Shravan
Release dates
September 18, 1992
Country
India
Language
Hindi
Junoon (Urdu: جنون‎, English: "Madness" or "Obsession") is a 1992 Hindi horror film directed by Mahesh Bhatt. The film makes use of morphing, a special effect in motion pictures and animations that changes (or morphs) one image into another through a seamless transition, to transform human face into tiger and back from tiger to human.Junoon's basic plot has been lifted from the 1981 Oscar winning classic An American Werewolf in London directed by John Landis starring David Naughton.


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2 Cast
3 Soundtrack
4 External links

Plot summary[edit]
Junoon tells the story of Vikram (Rahul Roy), who is nearly killed by a cursed tiger when he and his friend go for a hunting spree in the jungle. His friend is killed on the spot by the tiger, but Vikram manages to shoot the beast. Still, the tiger wounds Vikram badly before it dies.
Later on in the hospital, Vikram's hopes of survival are minimal. But the spirit of the tiger gets into Vikram. Vikram is treated by Dr. Nita (Pooja Bhatt) and he begins to like her. As the days go by, Vikram realizes that there is an evil present in him. His dead friend's spirit tells him about the cursed tiger and that he himself will become the same beast on the upcoming full moon and every full moon thereafter. His friend also tells Vikram to kill himself, but Vikram refuses saying that he will accept whatever his future has in store for him.
Vikram's liking for Dr. Nita turns into an obsession (Junoon) after he comes to know that she is in love with an up-and-coming singer, Ravi (Avinash Wadhawan). The evil in Vikram comes forward and he plots to separate Nita and Ravi. Then he consoles and convinces Nita's father to allow him to marry Nita. The night of their marriage is the night of the full moon, and that night Vikram transforms into a tiger in the hotel and kills an unknown woman. The following nights, Vikram's hunting spree continues as he kills more people after transforming into a tiger.
His wife Nita finds something fishy going on as every night Vikram leaves the house on some pretext or another. That is why one night she manages to keep him at home. Vikram transforms into a tiger in front of her and tries to kill her, but she manages to escape because of Ravi, a villager from the jungle where the beast came from and a policeman who has doubts about Vikram's strange behavior. But both the villager and the policeman are killed trying to save Nita.
A priest (Tom Alter) informs Ravi and Nita that there is a dagger in a specific cave which can actually kill Vikram because trying to kill him in any other way would mean taking the curse upon oneself. Ravi and Nita go in search of the dagger and are successful in finding the dagger. But before Ravi and Nita can get out of the cave, Vikram shows up and demands the dagger for himself. That is when a fight ensues and after a long battle with Vikram in the cave, they manage to slay him and end the curse.
Cast[edit]

Actor
Character
Rahul Roy Vikram (Vicky)
Pooja Bhatt Dr Nita
Tom Alter Harry
Rakesh Bedi Himanshu
Avinash Wadhawan Ravi
K.D. Chandran Nita's dad
Avtar Gill Inspector Sudhir Pai
Mushtaq Khan Adivasi Bheema
Shubha Khote Nita's mom
Roma Manik Rahul roy's dance partner in song 'o mere dilruba'
Homi Wadia Forest Officer Bhaskar Inamdar
Bhushan Patel Arun
Anang Desai 
Kumud Tripathi 
G P Singh 
Merlyn 
Yasmin 
Soundtrack[edit]

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Title
Singer(s)
1 "Prem Prem O Meri Dilruba" S.P. Balasubramaniam, Anuradha Paudwal
2 "Zamane Ki Buraai Mujh Mein Hai Sanam" Vipin Sachdeva
3 "Waqt Kate Nahin Kat Ta Hai" Vipin Sachdevan, Anuradha Paudwal
4 "Jo Pyar Kar Gaye Wo Log Aur They" Kumar Sanu
5 "Milte Milte Haseen Wadiyon Mein" Vipin Sachdevan, Anuradha Paudwal
6 "Deewaron Pe Likha Hai" Anuradha Paudwal
7 "Tu Mera Meherban" Kavita Paudwal
External links[edit]
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Wolfen (film)
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Wolfen
Wolfen 1981.jpg
Original 1981 film poster

Directed by
Michael Wadleigh
Produced by
Rupert Hitzig
Screenplay by
David M. Eyre, Jr.
 Michael Wadleigh
Eric Roth (uncredited)
Story by
David M. Eyre, Jr.
 Michael Wadleigh
Based on
The Wolfen
 by Whitley Strieber
Starring
Albert Finney
Music by
James Horner
Cinematography
Gerry Fisher
Editing by
Marshall M. Borden
 Martin J. Bram
 Dennis Dolan
Chris Lebenzon
Studio
Orion Pictures
Distributed by
Warner Bros.
Release dates
July 24, 1981

Running time
115 min.
Country
United States
Language
English
Box office
$10,626,725
Wolfen is a 1981 American crime horror film directed by Michael Wadleigh and starring Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Gregory Hines and Edward James Olmos. It is an adaptation of Whitley Strieber's 1978 novel The Wolfen.


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2 Cast
3 Production
4 Release
5 Reception
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
NYPD Captain Dewey Wilson (Albert Finney) is assigned to solve a bizarre string of violent murders after high-profile magnate Christopher Van der Veer (Max Brown), his wife, and his bodyguard are slain in Battery Park. Executive Security, Van der Veer's client, prefers to blame the murders on terrorists, but knowing that the victim's bodyguard was a 300 pound Haitian with voodoo ties makes Wilson skeptical. At the crime scene, Wilson meets with Warren, his superior. With pressure to solve the case coming down from both the commissioner and mayor, Warren partners Wilson with criminal psychologist Rebecca Neff (Diane Venora). Meanwhile a homeless man goes exploring an abandoned church in Charlotte Street, South Bronx, which was going to be demolished by Van der Veer along with the rest of the ruined buildings in the area, in order to build new apartment complexes, and is suddenly attacked and torn to pieces by a monstrous being. Soon after that and while investigating the abandoned church, sounds of suffering lure Neff upstairs. Wilson follows her but doesn't hear the suffering, but once Neff is separated from him, he hears a wolf's howl. He goes up after Neff and drags her forcibly to safety. Soon after, a bridge worker is murdered by an unseen attacker.
NY Coroner Whittington (Gregory Hines) discovers non-human hairs on several mutilation victims and consults zoologist Ferguson (Tom Noonan). Ferguson immediately identifies the hairs as belonging to Canis lupus, also explaining that there are 40 existing subspecies and these particular hairs don't belong to any of them. Ferguson foreshadows his own death when he asks incredulously "What are you two trying to pin on the big bad (wolf)?". He compares wolves to Indians, giving Wilson his first real inspiration.
Wilson finds Eddie Holt (Edward James Olmos), a militant Native activist he arrested some years ago for killing a conservative Indian or "apple" (a Native who is "red" -a true Native- on the outside but white on the inside). He claims he's a shapeshifter,[1] which implicates him as the killer, and even goes so far as to threaten Wilson with carefully constructed dialogue. Feeling that the conversation is circumstantial and potentially dangerous, Wilson opts to let well alone and tail Eddie later that night on his own terms. While following animal clues Ferguson goes to Central Park, where the actual killer ambushes and kills him under a tunnel. Oblivious, Wilson spends the remainder of his night with Neff. In the following morning, a man in a jogging suit rides Ferguson's motorcycle right past Wilson as he leaves Rebecca's apartment. The man crashes, illustrating that he stole the motorcycle.
Back at the station, Whittington is the second person to foreshadow his own death when he says "If violence comes, I'm ready. I'm a dead shot, and a karate expert". He and Wilson stakeout the Bronx church armed with sniper rifles and sound equipment and after he almost blows his ears out by opening a beer can near the sound mic, an animal who appears to be a wolf ambushes and kills him. Meanwhile, Executive Security apprehends a "Götterdämmerung" terrorist cell in connection with the Van der Veer slaying.
A traumatized Wilson escapes the church and finds himself at the Wigwam Bar, where Eddie Holt and his friends are drinking. The group of Natives reveal the true nature of the killer as Wolfen, the wolf spirit. They explain to Wilson that the Wolfen have extraordinary abilities and that they "might be gods". Eddie explains to Wilson that he can't fight the Wolfen, stating: "You don't have the eyes of the hunter, you have the eyes of the dead". The leader of the group, Old Indian, informs Wilson that Wolfen kills to protect its hunting ground. Wilson resolves to end his involvement in the Van der Veer case. In an allyway, Neff, Wilson, and Warren are cornered by the wolfen pack. Warren tries to flee but is killed when a pack member severs his hand and then decapitates him in his car. Wilson and Neff flee and blow up Warren's car with a pack member in it. When he and Neff are cornered in Van der Veer's penthouse by the Wolfen pack led by its white alpha, Wilson smashes the model of the construction project that threatened their hunting ground, to communicate to them that the threat no longer exists and he and Neff are not enemies. The Wolfen consent, and just as the police barge in, vanish. Wilson claims the attack was made by terrorists. The story ends on the assumption that Götterdämmerung takes the fall for the serial murders. Wilson's voice is heard, explaining that the Wolfen will continue to prey on weak and isolated members of the human herd, as humans do to each other on social and economic scale. The Wolfen will continue to be invisible to humanity because of their nature; not that of spirits, but superior predators, who are higher on The Food Chain than men.
Cast[edit]
Albert Finney as Dewey Wilson
Diane Venora as Rebecca Neff
Edward James Olmos as Eddie Holt
Gregory Hines as Wittington
Tom Noonan as Ferguson
Dick O'Neill as Warren
Dehl Berti as Old Indian
Peter Michael Goetz as Ross
Reginald VelJohnson as Morgue Attendant
Donald Symington as Lawyer
Tom Waits as Drunken Bar Owner (uncredited)
Production[edit]
The film is known for its early use of an in-camera effect to portray the subjective POV of a wolf. Similar to thermography, the technique was later adopted by other horror films such as the Predator series.
The setting for the transient home of the wolves was shot in the South Bronx (intersection of Louis Nine Blvd & Boston Road). The church seen in the opening panorama shot was located at the intersection of E 172nd & Seabury Pl. The shot of this neighborhood is from the north looking roughly S - SE. The decrepit site of ruined buildings was no special effect. The church was built (and burned) especially for the film.[2] Urban decay in the Bronx in the early 1980s was so widespread that it was the ideal production setting. Today, this community contains mostly suburban-style privately owned houses.
Release[edit]
The film was released theatrically in the United States by Orion Pictures through Warner Bros. in July 1981.[3] The film grossed $10,626,725 at the box office and received positive reviews from film critics for its frightening content .[4]
Selected premiere engagements of Wolfen were presented in Megasound, a high-impact surround sound system similar to Sensurround. Director Wadleigh was unsatisfied with the final cut of the movie, but so far no director's cut of the film is available.
The film was released on DVD in the United States by Warner Home Video in 2002.[5]
Reception[edit]
There was some disagreement if Wolfen is about werewolves. Time Out called it a "werewolf movie,"[6] but Roger Ebert asserted Wolfen "is not about werewolves but is about the possibility that Indians and wolves can exchange souls."[7]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "FROM the FILES of FANGORIA: Never Call A WOLFEN a Werewolf".
2.Jump up ^ NYTimes.com "The Faces in the South Bronx Rubble"
3.Jump up ^ "Company Credits for Wolfen". imdb.com. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
4.Jump up ^ "Wolfen". boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
5.Jump up ^ "Wolfen". dvdempire.com. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
6.Jump up ^ Keith Uhlich, "Wolfen (1981), directed by Michael Wadleigh and starring Albert Finney (VIDEO), Time Out, 3 July 2012, URL accessed 11 May 2013
7.Jump up ^ Roger Ebert, "Wolfen," rogerebert.com, 1 January 1981, URL accessed 11 May 2013
External links[edit]
Wolfen at the Internet Movie Database
Wolfen at AllMovie


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The Wolfen
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The Wolfen
First Edition Hardcover
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Author
Whitley Strieber
Cover artist
Melvyn Grant (for 1992 UK Reissue)
Country
United States of America
Language
English (U.S.)
Genre
Horror
Publisher
William Morrow & Co

Publication date
 1978
Media type
Print (Paperback and Hardcover)
Pages
252
ISBN
0688033474
OCLC
3842774
The Wolfen (1978) is the debut novel of Whitley Strieber. It tells the story of two police detectives in New York City who are involved in the investigation of suspicious deaths across the city,[1] which are revealed to be the work of a race of intelligent beings descended from wolves, called the Wolfen. The novel is told from the point of view of the human characters as well from the Wolfen themselves.
A film adaptation directed by Michael Wadleigh and starring Albert Finney was released in 1981.[2]


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2 Reception
3 References
4 External links

Plot[edit]
The violent junk yard deaths of Hugo DiFalco and Dennis Houlihan, two policemen from New York's Police Auto Squad, triggers an investigation led by detectives Becky Neff and George Wilson. The evidence show nothing conclusive, except that the victims were quickly and brutally attacked by some kind of animal, in light of the gnawing marks on the bodies' bones and paw prints left on the mud near to the attack. Despite the fact that the two murdered policemen were healthy, they seemed to be unable to defend themselves or fire their service firearms. In addition, at the time of their death the bodies showed signs of disembowelment and of being consumed. One of the puzzling pieces of evidence is that the hand of one of the policemen, still holding his gun, was severed from his arm, having not had a chance to fire the weapon.
To the detectives' dismay, the Chief of Police, lacking a plausible explanation for the attack, has written into the official report states that the policemen were attacked by a pack of stray dogs after becoming intoxicated with carbon monoxide, in order to avoid raising public concern, in light of upcoming elections. The detectives pay a visit to the Medical Examiner, Dr. Evans, who informs them that there were no knife marks, that the victims were eaten, and that unidentified canine fur, bites and claw marks were found on the bodies.
Reluctant to leave the real cause of death of their colleagues unknown, Neff and Wilson decide to take some of the paw-print casts to Tom Rilker, a dog trainer, in an attempt to identify the breed of dogs that may have attacked the policemen, hypothesizing that someone might have trained and employed dogs to cause such harm as a kind of weapon. The conversation turns to the topic of corrupt policemen, including rumors of Dick Neff, Becky's husband - implying that he is receiving money from certain groups. Later on it is learned that Dick's accepted bribes from a gambling ring so that he could place his father, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, in a nursing home that offer him proper care, rather than a state hospital.
During the searching for blind missing person, the police are led to an abandoned building, where they discover evidence of more bodies in different state of decay. Neff and Wilson search the building, where Neff hears the cry of a baby, and seeks to investigate, but is reluctantly convinced by Wilson to wait for police backup. The infant's cry, however, is revealed to be a lure by a pack of creatures living in the building, who react to the detectives' incursion by attempting to split up the two. After Neff declines to pursue the sound she leaves with Wilson, who tells Neff that he wanted them to leave because he felt they was being watched by something in the building, a feeling similar to the reaction of an old buck before being taken down by a pack of wolves. Wilson also confesses to Neff that he has romantic feeling for her.
Neff and Wilson consult another expert, Dr. Carl Ferguson, who works at the Museum of Natural History and has examined the paw-print casts by Rilker. Ferguson observes the paws' resemblance to canine paws, except for longer fingers and claws, and belong to a species not classified yet. Neff becomes concerned after developing the feeling, much as Wilson did, that observed her when she was near a window with a balcony, a location difficult to reach due to its height.
It is discovered that a pack of intelligent and savage canine creatures called the Wolfen are stalking the city. These predators are not werewolves, but are a separate race of intelligent beings descended from wolves that live secretly alongside mankind. The Wolfen turned the decaying ghettos into their new feeding grounds, hunting the abandoned of humanity: the homeless, drug abusers, outcasts and any people whom the Wolfen believe would not be missed. They also quickly kill any who learn of their existence.
Eventually the Wolfen infiltrate a high-rise building, and attack Wilson and Neff who manage to kill several of their number. The rest of the pack flees as reinforcements arrive for the two police officers. The carcasses of the slain Wolfen will act as proof of their existence, and it is implied that humans will exterminate them. Returning to their hideout, the Wolfen acknowledge their grim future, and let out a defiant howl, intending to go out fighting.
Reception[edit]
Critical and scholarly reception for The Wolfen has been mostly positive.[3][4] In their book Intersections, Professors Slusser and Rabkin comment that Strieber makes the supernatural an "explainable part of the real universe" and undercuts the fantastic to give a more scientific explanation.[5] Don D'Ammassa praised the book form of Wolfen in his Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction, but commented that the film adaptation was "only intermittently loyal" to the novel.[6]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Wolfen". AMC. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
2.Jump up ^ "Werewolf films run gamut from the comic to truly scary". Daily Herald Tribune. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
3.Jump up ^ Magistrale, Tony (1996). A Dark Night's Dreaming: Contemporary American Horror Fiction. University of South Carolina Press. pp. 99, 104–105. ISBN 1570030707.
4.Jump up ^ Joshi, S. T. (2006). Icons of Horror and the Supernatural [Two Volumes]: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares, V2. Greenwood. p. 678. ISBN 0313337829.
5.Jump up ^ George E Slusser, PhD, Eric S Rabkin, PhD (1987). Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction. Southern Illinois University Press. pp. 50–54. ISBN 080931374X.
6.Jump up ^ D'Ammassa, Don (2006). The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction. Checkmark Books. ISBN 0816069247.
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An American Werewolf in London
An American Werewolf in London poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
John Landis
Produced by
George Folsey, Jr.
Jon Peters
Peter Guber
Written by
John Landis
Starring
David Naughton
Jenny Agutter
Griffin Dunne
John Woodvine
Music by
Elmer Bernstein
Cinematography
Robert Paynter
Editing by
Malcolm Campbell
Studio
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
The Guber-Peters Company
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Producers Sales Organization (Non-USA)
Release dates
August 21, 1981

Running time
97 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
 United States
Language
English
Budget
$10 million
Box office
$61,973,249[1]
An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 horror comedy film written and directed by John Landis, and starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, and Griffin Dunne.
The film starts with two young American men, David Kessler (played by Naughton) and Jack Goodman (played by Dunne), on a backpacking holiday in England. Following an awkwardly tense visit to a village pub, the two men venture deep into the moors at night. They are attacked by a werewolf, which results in Jack's death and David being taken to a London hospital. Through apparitions of his dead friend and disturbing dream sequences, David becomes informed that he is a werewolf and will transform at the next full moon.
Shooting took place mostly in London but also in Surrey and Wales. It was released in the United States on August 21, 1981 and grossed $30.56 million at the box office. Critics generally gave the film favourable reviews. The film won the 1981 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film and an Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup. The film was one of three high-profile wolf-themed horror films released in 1981, alongside The Howling and Wolfen. Over the years, the film has accumulated a cult following and has been referred to as a cult classic.[2]
The film was followed by a 1997 sequel, An American Werewolf in Paris, which featured a completely different cast and none of the original crew, and is distributed by Disney's Hollywood Pictures. A Hindi film Junoon was also inspired by this movie.
Empire magazine named An American Werewolf in London as the 107th greatest film of all time in September 2008. On August 15, 2013, the film was announced to be used as the seventh maze to be featured at Universal Orlando Resort's annual Halloween Horror Nights event in 2013.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production notes 3.1 Makeup effects
3.2 Credits
3.3 Locations
4 Soundtrack
5 Reception
6 Radio adaptation
7 Sequel
8 Remake
9 Home media
10 See also
11 References
12 External links

Plot[edit]
Two American college students, David Kessler and Jack Goodman, are backpacking across the Yorkshire moors. As darkness falls, they decide to stop for the night at a pub called "The Slaughtered Lamb". Jack notices a five-pointed star on the wall. When he asks about it, the pub becomes very quiet and the pubgoers start acting very strange and hostile. The pair decide to leave, but not before the others offer them pieces of advice such as "Beware the moon, lads" and "Keep to the road." Whilst conversing with each other and wondering what they meant, they wander off the road, onto the moors.
Back at the pub, the owner gets very distressed and suggests that they go after the pair. As she says this, a sinister howling is heard. The rest of the pubgoers, having barricaded the door, decline. Back out on the moors, Jack and David have also heard the howls, and they seem to be steadily getting closer. They start back to the Slaughtered Lamb when they realize that they have left the road and are now lost on the moors. A full moon comes out from behind the clouds, and they remember the advice they were given earlier. The noises get steadily closer until the boys are stopped by a supernaturally large animal. The animal attacks both of them, and kills Jack. The animal is then shot and killed by the pubgoers, who have finally emerged. The beast changes into the dying body of a naked man. David survives the mauling and is taken to a hospital in London.
When David wakes up three weeks later, he does not remember what happened and is told of his friend's death. David is questioned by the arrogant Inspector Villiers and the bumbling, but more understanding Sergeant McManus and learns that he and Jack were supposedly attacked by an escaped lunatic. David insists that they were actually attacked by a large wolf. But Villiers had already been told there were witnesses and an autopsy report of the maniac, so they deduce that David is suffering from shock.
David begins to have a series of bizarre nightmares. In the first, he runs through the woods, then decapitates and eats a deer. In the second, he is in a hospital bed with a monstrous, fanged face. In the final dream, he is at home with his family when they are attacked by Nazis with monstrous faces and wielding machine guns.
While David is awake, Jack appears to him as a reanimated corpse, and explains that the pair of them were attacked by a werewolf, and that David himself is now a werewolf. Jack urges David to kill himself before the next full moon, not only because Jack is cursed to exist in a state of living death for as long as the bloodline of the werewolf that attacked them survives, but also to prevent David from inflicting the same fate on his eventual victims.
Trying to see if David is telling the truth, his doctor, Hirsch, takes a trip to the Slaughtered Lamb. When asked about the incident, the pubgoers deny any knowledge of David, Jack or their attacker. But one distraught pubgoer speaks to Dr. Hirsch outside the pub and says that David should not have been taken away, and that he and everyone else will be in danger when he changes. He's interrupted by another pubgoer, who remains silent. After more investigation, Dr. Hirsch finds out that the police report was "misplaced", and that David's wounds were cleaned and dressed before he was even looked at by the authorities. The doctor is convinced that the whole town was lying, and that David was indeed attacked by some sort of animal, though he is not convinced it was a werewolf.
Upon his release from the hospital, David moves in with Alex Price, the pretty young nurse who grew infatuated with him in the hospital. He stays in Alex's London apartment, where they later make love for the first time. Jack (in an advanced stage of decay) suddenly appears to David again and tells him that he will turn into a werewolf the next day. Jack again advises David to take his own life; otherwise he is doomed to kill innocent people.
When the full moon rises, as Jack had warned, David, who is alone in the apartment, begins to feel excruciating pain before stripping naked upon "burning up" and turning into a werewolf. He prowls the streets and the London Underground and slaughters six Londoners. When he wakes in the morning, he is naked on the floor of the wolf cage at London Zoo with no memory of his activities, but unharmed by the resident wolves.
Later that day, David realizes that Jack was right about everything and that he is responsible for the murders of the night before. After failing to get himself arrested and running from Alex, David calls his family in New York to say good-bye, though he only speaks to his little sister. Walking out of the phone booth after failing to slit his wrists with his pocket knife, David sees Jack (in a more advanced stage of decay) outside an adult cinema in Piccadilly Circus. Inside, Jack is accompanied by David's victims from the previous night. They all insist that he must commit suicide before turning into a werewolf again. While talking with them, night falls and, consequently, David turns into a werewolf again and goes on another killing spree. After bursting out of the cinema (biting off Inspector Villiers' head in the process), a horrific melee ensues. David is ultimately cornered in an alley by the police. Alex arrives to calm him down by telling him that she loves him. Though he is apparently temporarily softened, he is shot and killed when he lunges forward, returning to human form in front of a grieving Alex as he dies.
Cast[edit]
David Naughton as David Kessler
Jenny Agutter as Nurse Alex Price
Griffin Dunne as Jack Goodman
John Woodvine as Dr. J.S. Hirsch
Lila Kaye as Barmaid
Frank Oz as Mr. Collins
John Landis as Man smashed in window
David Schofield as Dart Player
Brian Glover as Chess Player
Rik Mayall as Man in Pub (2nd Chess Player)
Don McKillop as Inspector Villiers
Paul Kember as Sergeant McManus
Linzi Drew as Brenda Bristols
Cameos and bit parts
In the Piccadilly Circus sequence, the man hit by a car and thrown through a store window is Landis himself.
As in most of the director's movies, Frank Oz makes an appearance: first as Mr. Collins from the American embassy in the hospital scene, and later as Miss Piggy in a dream sequence, when David's younger siblings watch a scene from The Muppet Show.
Actors in bit parts who were already—or would become—more well-known include the two chess players David and Jack meet in the pub, played by the familiar character actor Brian Glover and then-rising comedian and actor Rik Mayall, star and co-writer of The Young Ones and Bottom. One of the policemen helping to chase and kill the werewolf is John Altman, who would later achieve fame as "Nasty" Nick Cotton in EastEnders. Alan Ford—later to appear in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch—plays a taxi driver. The policeman in the cinema is played by John Salthouse and the policeman in Trafalgar Square is played by Peter Ellis. Both Salthouse and Ellis appeared in police drama The Bill. David Schofield, known as Mercer from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, plays the dart player at The Slaughtered Lamb and assists Dr. Hirsch in his investigation of David's attack.
Production notes[edit]



 A still from a nightmare sequence in the film.
John Landis came up with the story while he worked in Yugoslavia as a production assistant on the film Kelly's Heroes (1970). He and a Yugoslavian member of the crew were driving in the back of a car on location when they came across a group of gypsies. The gypsies appeared to be performing rituals on a man being buried so that he would not "rise from the grave." This made Landis realize that he would never be able to confront the undead and gave him the idea for a film in which a man would go through the same thing.[3]
Landis wrote the first draft of An American Werewolf in London in 1969 and shelved it for over a decade. Two years later, Landis wrote, directed, and starred in his debut film, Schlock, which developed a cult following. Landis developed box-office status in Hollywood through the successful comedy films The Kentucky Fried Movie, National Lampoon's Animal House and The Blues Brothers before securing $10 million financing for his werewolf film. Financiers believed that Landis' script was too frightening to be a comedy and too funny to be a horror film.[4]
Makeup effects[edit]
According to Entertainment Weekly, the real star of this film is the Oscar-winning transformation effects by Rick Baker, which changed the face of horror makeup in the 1980s.[5]
The various prosthetics and robotic body parts used during the film's extended werewolf transformation scenes and on Griffin Dunne when his character returns as a bloody, mangled ghost impressed the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences so much that the film won the Outstanding Achievement in Makeup in the category's inaugural year.
During the body casting sessions, the crew danced around David Naughton singing, "I'm a werewolf, you're a werewolf ... wouldn't you like to be a werewolf, too?" in reference to his days as a pitchman for Dr Pepper.[citation needed]
Credits[edit]
The end credits, which congratulate the marriage of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer, end with a promo card for Universal Studios urging viewers to "Ask for Babs", a reference to National Lampoon's Animal House.
Locations[edit]
Some scenes from the film were shot on Hampstead Heath, Well Walk and Haverstock Hill, London. St. Stephen's Church, Rosslyn Hill is featured. Harry and Judith are killed in Hampstead Heath, behind The Pryors on East Heath Road. Before David kills them, Harry and Judith get out of the taxi on East Heath Road at Well Walk.
Soundtrack[edit]
The film's ironically upbeat soundtrack consists of songs which refer in some way to the moon. Bobby Vinton's slow and soothing version of "Blue Moon" plays during the opening credits, Van Morrison's "Moondance" as David and Alex make love for the first time, Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" as David is nearing the moment of changing to the werewolf, a soft, bittersweet ballad version of "Blue Moon" by Sam Cooke during the agonizing wolf transformation and The Marcels' doo-wop version of "Blue Moon" over the end credits.[6] Landis failed to get permission to use Cat Stevens' "Moonshadow" and Bob Dylan's "Moonshiner", both artists feeling the film to be inappropriate.[citation needed] It was stated on the DVD commentary by David Naughton and Griffin Dunne that they were not sure why Landis could not get the rights to Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" - a song that they felt would have been more appropriate for the film.
Reception[edit]
 The budget of An American Werewolf in London was reportedly $10 million. The US box office came to $30,565,292.[7]
 The film was also met with critical acclaim. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 89% based on reviews from 44 critics, compiled retrospectively.[8] Kim Newman of Empire magazine praised the film, saying "Carnivorous lunar activities rarely come any more entertaining than this".[9] Tom Huddlestone from Time Out also gave the film a positive review, saying the film was "Not just gory but actually frightening, not just funny but clever".[citation needed]
Halliwell's Film Guide described the film as a "curious but oddly endearing mixture of horror film and spoof, of comedy and shock, with everything grist to its mill including tourist Britain and the wedding of Prince Charles. The special effects are notable, and signalled new developments in this field."[10]
Roger Ebert's review was less favourable; he stated that "An American Werewolf in London seems curiously unfinished, as if director John Landis spent all his energy on spectacular set pieces and then didn't want to bother with things like transitions, character development, or an ending."[11]
 The American Film Institute nominated it for ranking on their 100 Laughs list.[12]
Radio adaptation[edit]
A radio adaptation of the film was broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1997, written and directed by Dirk Maggs and with Jenny Agutter, Brian Glover, and John Woodvine reprising the roles of Alex Price, the chess player (now named George Hackett, and with a more significant role as East Proctor's special constable) and Dr. Hirsch. The roles of David and Jack were played by Eric Meyers and William Dufris. Maggs's script added a back-story that some people in East Proctor are settlers from Eastern Europe and brought lycanthropy with them. The werewolf who bites David is revealed to be related to Hackett, and has escaped from an asylum where he is held under the name "Larry Talbot", the name of the title character in The Wolf Man.
Sequel[edit]
The film was followed by a sequel 16 years later, An American Werewolf in Paris (1997), which featured a completely different cast and crew, and was distributed by Disney's Hollywood Pictures. According to An American Werewolf in Paris, David impregnated Alex during their sex scene and soon after the events of An American Werewolf in London, Alex gave birth to Serafine, a main character in the sequel. This is directly stated in a deleted scene of An American Werewolf in Paris and also suggests that the werewolf who bit David was a survivor of the same society of which the antagonists are a part.
Remake[edit]
In June 2009, it was announced that Dimension Films was working with producers Sean and Bryan Furst on a remake of the film. This has since been delayed due to other commitments.[13]
Home media[edit]
The film was first released on DVD in January 1998 by LIVE Entertainment according to a LIVE DVD Advertisement. Universal released a 20th anniversary "Collector's Edition" DVD on September 18, 2001. The high-definition version of the film was first released on HD DVD by Universal on November 28, 2006. A high-definition Blu-ray Disc and 2-disc standard-definition Region 1 DVD release of the film titled "An American Werewolf in London - Full Moon Edition" was released by Universal on September 15, 2009.[14] The Region 2 DVDs and Blu-ray were released on September 28 and are known as "An American Werewolf in London - Special Edition"[15] No DVD or Blu-ray version at present contains the film's original mono audio track.
The region 2 DVD release does not include a scene that is fully intact on the Region 1 release and all previous region 1 and 2 releases. The scene takes place near the end of the film where the character of David phones his parents from a public telephone box. All but the end of this scene had been cut from the Region 2 release because the distributors felt that use of a public phone box, as opposed to a mobile phone, would date the film.
As of October 2009 Universal said that they were scrapping all existing faulty stock and issuing replacement DVDs. All Blu-ray releases, however, are intact.[16]
See also[edit]
Junoon, a 1992 Bollywood film with a similar plot.
"Deer Woman", a 2005 episode of Masters of Horror directed by Landis that references events in An American Werewolf in London as though actually happening.
Frostbiten, a 2006 Swedish comedy vampire film with a subplot about a young man's transformation into a vampire, which pays homage to An American Werewolf in London.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "An American Werewolf in London, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved March 7, 2012.
2.Jump up ^ Berardinelli, James (2000). "An American Werewolf in London review". Reelviews. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
3.Jump up ^ An Interview with John Landis featurette on the American Werewolf in London DVD
4.Jump up ^ Peary, Danny (1988). Cult Movies 3. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc. pp. 15–19. ISBN 0-671-64810-1.
5.Jump up ^ The Entertainment Weekly Guide to the Greatest Movies Ever Made. New York: Warner Books. 1996. p. 123.
6.Jump up ^ Jones, Steven; Forrest J. Ackerman (2000). The Essential Monster Movie Guide. Billboard Book. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-8230-7936-0.
7.Jump up ^ "An American Werewolf in London (1981)". Box Office Mojo. IMDB. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
8.Jump up ^ "An American Werewolf in London". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 2013-04-01.
9.Jump up ^ "Review of An American Werewolf in London". Empireonline.com. Retrieved 2010-08-07.[dead link]
10.Jump up ^ Halliwell's Film Guide, 13th edition - ISBN 0-00-638868-X.
11.Jump up ^ Roger Ebert (January 1, 1981). "An American Werewolf in London :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews". Rogerebert.suntimes.com. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
12.Jump up ^ AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs Ballot
13.Jump up ^ By[who?] (June 29, 2009). "'Werewolf' remake in development — Entertainment News, Film News, Media". Variety. Retrieved 2009-06-30.[dead link]
14.Jump up ^ "An American Werewolf in London coming to Blu-ray". HD Report. July 13, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
15.Jump up ^ "An American Werewolf In London - Special Edition DVD 1981: Amazon.co.uk: David Naughton, Don McKillop, Frank Oz, Linzi Drew, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine, Brian Glover, Rik Mayall, David Schofield, Lila Kaye, Paul Kernber, John Landis: DVD". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
16.Jump up ^ . Uk.imdb.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082010/alternateversions?ref_=tt_ql_trv_5. Retrieved 2014-02-14. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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