The Howling (1981)
Directed by Joe Dante
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
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What critics compared The Howling to
Don’t expect it to crack the Mount Rushmore of canidae films where firmly sit atop ‘An American Werewolf in London,’ ‘Ginger Snaps,’ ‘The Wolf Man’ (1941), and ‘The Howling.’
I’m aware of the other werewolf movies during the Great Lycan Renaissance of 1981 (Wolfen, The Howling)…
Even the most beloved – Ginger Snaps (2000), The Howling (1981) and Silver Bullet (1985) – have their detractors.
Before you can say “Jordan Peterson meets The Howling”…
Anyone who goes back long enough to remember the eye-opening thrills at the time of the visceral transformations in Joe Dante’s The Howling or John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London — Rob Bottin and Rick Baker really were groundbreaking effects wizards back in 1981 — might judge the latest iteration to be low on fresh juice.
As for Lawrence's initial transformationa centerpiece of any respectable lycanthropic yarnit leaves one merely aloof by the choice to go with CGI that doesn't come close to approaching the realism, ingenuity and fright of makeup artist Rick Baker's masterful practical effects in 1981's "The Howling" and 1982's "An American Werewolf in London."
The landlady in that opening scene is Dee Wallace, an icon of early ’80s horror for Joe Dante’s film “The Howling,” still one of the best werewolf movies ever made.
Much later, experimentally altered humans turning into raging monsters enter the picture and might remind some of those disturbing werewolves in "The Howling."
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(They also lovingly poke fun at a madcap variety of movies, including The Howling and The Godfather .)
Additionally, the New Orleans setting is sultry and evocative, while the transformative creature effects rival those found in 1980's "An American Werewolf in London" and 1981's "The Howling."