WAXWORK RECORDS HOWLING MOVIE
Entering, the store, Karen wanders to the back where there are private movie booths, where she sees one of Eddie's stickers on the outside, showing her this is the one he wants her to enter. Here he tells her he'll meet her in a downtown porno shop a few blocks away. Karen, believing that the police and news team can still hear her, finds one of Eddie's calling cards on a payphone (remember those guys?) and waits for his call. Karen's husband Bill becomes increasing worried, not knowing if his wife is safe or not. Sadly due to all the neon, the signal gets scrambled and the news team and police aren't able to exactly pinpoint where Karen is. Karen is fitted with a wire, and goes to a very seedy part of downtown LA that night with police cruisers on patrol around the area. Teaming up with the news station, as well as the police she becomes involved in a string operation to be the bait in order to catch this crazed killer who always leaves his calling card at the scene of the crimes (a smiley sticker).
WAXWORK RECORDS HOWLING SERIAL
The film follows Karen White (Dee Wallace) a newswoman who has been receiving calls from a man named Eddie, who she believes is actually a serial killer who's murdered dozens downtown in the last few months. The great Robert Picardo playing Eddie Quist, the insane serial killer who has fixed his sights on Karen, and puts this whole horrifying tale into motion. Kevin McCarthy as the hilarious producer of the news program Karen, Terry, and Chris work at.and last but not least. You have greats like Patrick Macnee (who I remember best from Waxwork and Waxwork II) as Dr, Waggner, the psychiatrist who has just written a best seller book called The Gift, and runs a resort up North called "The Colony". Dennis Dugan plays Terry's boyfriend, a producer at the same show as Terry and Karen who steps up in the final act, and you can't seem to feel awful for with the look that comes over his face in his very last shot. There's Belinda Balaski (who I remember best as the councilor who sadly gets eaten in Piranha.) as Karen's best friend, and fellow reporter Terry who sadly discovers more than she bargained for after discovering the truth. Along side with her is the late Christopher Stone (Dee and Chris were actually engaged during this production, and clearly show onscreen amazing chemistry.) They would go on to act beside each other in several other movies, the one I remember best out of all of them was Cujo just a few years later. You can't help but like her, and feel sweet towards her poor character who seems like truly such a good person, only to suffer extreme trauma after being attacked, unable and frustrated that she can't piece the clues together. She's soft, beautiful, and truly a great actress. The Howling I feel even after The Hills Have Eyes was what turned her into a horror icon. I'm a huge Dee Wallace fan, and she's truly one HELL of an underrated scream queen. With the lovely Dee Wallace Stone as newswoman Karen White.
One second you're laughing, the next you're jumping out of your seat screaming.
Another thing Dante did brilliantly as he did with Piranha was the perfect balance of humor sprinkled throughout. I truly believe this was the movie that launched his career, opening doors to him to direct bigger budget films (Gremlins) Here the movie has so many pop culture references (especially for werewolf films.) it's seriously like visual eye candy for the audience, spotting all the little references, and nods to these films throughout the movie. I feel a huge reason why this film after 40 years still holds up is due to Dante's direction. This time, Dante wanted to be a groundbreaker with his young talented cast and crew, and they truly set the bar for the werewolf boom which was about to hit the 1980's. Before then transformations were done with cut aways, time lapse, or off screen. This movie actually was released before AWIL and holds the special place for actually being the first in doing this. Rob Bottin, who had perviously worked on Piranha with Dante took over, and they pitched the movie to the studios for having the very first completely on screen transformation done completely with practical effects.
In fact, makeup artist Rick Baker originally started doing the special effects for this film, before leaving to do AWIL. The Howling was released the same year as An American Werewolf In London. Still, there's a grittiness beneath it all.
WAXWORK RECORDS HOWLING FULL
Even though there's colorful lighting, eire sets, outdoor scenes full of fog, and beautiful color it seems almost as if it's straight out of a comic book or movie. Someone once said that The Howling to them was the "Se7en" of werewolf movies.
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