The Howling (film)

The Howling is a 1981 American horror film directed by Joe Dante, and starring Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, and Robert Picardo. Based on the novel of the same name by Gary Brandner, the film follows a television newswoman sent to a remote mountain resort after a fatal incident with a serial killer, unaware that the inhabiting residents are werewolves.

Karen White Dee Wallace is a Los Angeles television news anchor who is being stalked by a serial murderer named Eddie Quist Robert Picardo. In cooperation with the police, she takes part in a scheme to capture Eddie by agreeing to meet him in a sleazy porno theater. Eddie forces Karen to watch a video of a young woman being raped, and when Karen turns around to see Eddie she screams. The police enter and shoot Eddie, and although Karen is safe, she suffers amnesia. Her therapist, Dr. George Waggner Patrick Macnee, decides to send her and her husband, Bill Neill Christopher Stone, to the Colony, a secluded resort in the countryside where he sends patients for treatment.The Colony is filled with strange characters, and one, a sultry nymphomaniac named Marsha Quist Elisabeth Brooks, tries to seduce Bill. When he resists her lessthansubtle sexual overtures, he is attacked and bitten by a wolflike creature while returning to his cabin. After Bills wolf bite, Karen summons her friend Terri Fisher Belinda Balaski to the Colony, and Terri connects the resort to Eddie Quist through a sketch he left behind. Karen also begins to suspect that Bill is hiding a secret far more threatening than marital infidelity as he develops an appetite for meat. Later that night, Bill meets Marsha at a campfire in the woods. While having sex under the moonlight, they undergo a frightening transformation into wolflike monsters. ........

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