THE HOWLING

THE HOWLING, 1980 directed by Joe Dante is the story of TV newscaster Karen White (Dee Wallace) who after almost being killed by a serial killer that she had been tracking for a new story takes them very much needed time off at a secluded country retreat called "the Colony" beery deep in the redwood forests of California. She is played by weird nightmares and strange shrieks, rise and howling at coming from a nighttime for us outside her cabin. Her husband think she's just losing her mind and needs to relax but slowly she begins to discover things about the colony that are related to the serial killer that it almost taken her life at the beginning of the film. Her reporter's instincts to get to the bottom of the story prove to be much like the curiosity that killed the cat. She digs to deep and uncovers a dark nightmarish world or she must fight just to survive the lycanthrope's that hunt night.

This movie is at times a little can't be an odd but that's part of what makes a cult classic. The sex is a little overdone as is the case with most 1980s Hollywood horror films. The special effects are top-notch especially for the day and overall one of the best werewolf movies ever made.