{"id":190,"date":"2007-01-04T19:11:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T23:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/190"},"modified":"2009-09-25T13:43:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T17:43:58","slug":"the-howling-1981-joe-dante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/190","title":{"rendered":"The Howling (1981, Joe Dante)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter is stalked by serial killer who turns out to be a werewolf.  Then to recover from all that, she&#8217;s sent to a retreat which turns out to be a werewolf cult.  Bad news!<\/p>\n<p>Her doctor is a werewolf.  The stalker&#8217;s family are werewolves.  Her friend is killed by a werewolf.  Her husband falls for a werewolf.  Her husband becomes a werewolf.  Your sister is a werewolf.<\/p>\n<p>Your werewolf:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/howling4.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your sister:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/howling1.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another friend buys silver bullets from an antique bookstore owner (Dante regular Dick Miller), goes to the country and whups some werewolf ass, locks everyone in the barn, sets fire to it, and has a close escape&#8230; TOO close, cuz the reporter gets bitten!  They expose their story by having her wolf-out live on her next newscast (to the horror of her boss, Dante fave Kevin McCarthy), then her friend shoots her and we end.<\/p>\n<p>You should&#8217;ve seen him in &#8220;Piranha&#8221;:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/howling6.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Keeps silver bullets in stock:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/howling5.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fun werewolf effects, movie manages to be a little scary, is less funny than the others&#8230; mostly just a good time.  Star Dee Wallace-Stone (later star of <em>Critters<\/em> and <em>Cujo<\/em>, mom in <em>E.T.<\/em>, Jake Busey&#8217;s co-killer in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/216\">The Frighteners<\/a><\/em>) has got a good scream on her.  Her buddy Dennis Dugan is currently gathering bit parts in Adam Sandler movies.  Her hairy husband Chris Stone was also in <em>Cujo<\/em> (he must be the Stone in Wallace-Stone).  Another Dante fave, Robert Picardo (Mark Dark in <em>976-EVIL<\/em>), is the serial killer Eddie Quist.  Elisabeth Brooks is the goth hottie.  John Carradine (of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/244\">The Return of Frank James<\/a><\/em>, <em>Man Hunt<\/em>, and <em>Red Zone Cuba<\/em>) must&#8217;ve been the old man wandering the werewolf camp, and Slim Pickens was the sheriff.<\/p>\n<p>Cujo:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/howling2.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carradine?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/howling3.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter is stalked by serial killer who turns out to be a werewolf. Then to recover from all that, she&#8217;s sent to a retreat which turns out to be a werewolf cult. Bad news! Her doctor is a werewolf. The stalker&#8217;s family are werewolves. Her friend is killed by a werewolf. Her husband falls for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,54,8,352],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-horror","tag-joe-dante","tag-werewolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3267,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}