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6.6After 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.
Released: 1981-01-2191 minDir: Joe DanteHorrorBudget: $1.0MBox office: $18.0MPart of: The Howling Collection
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Cast
- Dee Wallace as Karen White
- Patrick Macnee as Dr. George Waggner
- Dennis Dugan as Chris
- Christopher Stone as R. William 'Bill' Neill
- Belinda Balaski as Terry Fisher
- Kevin McCarthy as Fred Francis
Themes
- adultery
- based on novel or book
- shapeshifting
- secret society
- woods
- murder
- serial killer
- cabin
- werewolf
- psychiatrist
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Ratings
IMDb
6.5/10
42,806 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
76%
Metacritic
68/100
- Year
- 1981
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Genres
- Horror
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 2 wins & 3 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Followed by
- Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf
- Based on
- The Howling
- Director
- Joe Dante
- Screenwriter
- Terence H. Winkless
- Cast member
- Meshach Taylor
- Composer
- Pino Donaggio
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Duration
- 89
- FilmAffinity ID
- 100428
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1981-04-10
- film editor
- Joe Dante
- title
- The Howling
- distributed by
- Netflix
- after a work by
- Gary Brandner
- capital cost
- 1000000
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 6.4/10
- box office
- 17985893
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