The Howling
| release date | April 10 1981 |
| studio | MGM |
| director | Joe Dante |
| writer | John Sayles |
| starring | Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone |
Shout! Factory’s Scream Factory Announces ‘The Howling’ Special Edition Blu-ray and DVD!
It’s time to unleash the beast within and join the pack as Scream Factory is proud to present the ferocious 1981 classic The Howling Collector’s Edition on Blu-ray and DVD June 18, 2013. Directed by legendary filmmaker Joe Dante (Gremlins) and written by John Sayles and Terence H. Winkless, this massive cult hit is based on the popular novel by Gary Brandner. The all-star cast includes Dee Wallace (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Cujo), Patrick MacNee (The Avengers, A View to a Kill), Dennis Dugan (Happy Gilmore), Christopher Stone (Cujo), Belinda Balaski (Piranha), Kevin McCarthy (Innerspace), John Carradine (The Twilight Zone), Slim Pickens (Dr. Strangelove), Elisabeth Brooks (Deep Space) and Robert Picardo (Star Trek: Voyager). Brimming with edge-of-your-seat suspense and awesome make-up effects courtesy of Rob Bottin (The Thing), this riveting werewolf tale sinks its teeth into your deepest fears and never lets go! READ MORE
5 Remakes We’d Actually Like To See!!!
The unfortunate truth is that most remakes are pre-destined to be awful. I’m not saying they’re all bad, there are some I rather like, but most of the recent ones never really had a chance to be good. Even if a passionate writer, director and cast are brought onboard they’re still essentially fighting an uphill battle against the reason they were hired in the first place. Money. If a studio owns a certain piece of recognizable property, when they opt to remake it they do so because they feel like it’s a secure financial decision (even if many recent ones have tanked). This means it’s already a film by committee even before the creative team is added. That’s an unhealthy, and usually unfixable, power dynamic for any production. READ MORE
Take The Expanded Ultimate Horror Challenge!!! How Do You Rank Now?
We have heard your cries! MANY of you felt that the The Ultimate Horror Challenge wasn’t comprehensive enough! So we included an additional 20 films that round it out a bit more. Many of these are from your suggestions! But this still isn’t a list of every horror movie ever made. And it still doesn’t contain every major work of every horror auteur (there’s still no John Carpenter’s They Live or Wes Craven’s The Last House On The Left). READ MORE
Dee Wallace ‘Unhallowed’ By Loss Of Son
Gregori J. Martin (The Intruders, Raven) is getting behind the camera for Unhallowed, which shoots February in Los Angeles and New York. READ MORE
AFM ’11: New Sales Art for ‘Meat Train’ Director’s ‘No One Lives’
A new piece of sales art has been released for WWE and Path UK’s No One Lives, which is being helmed by Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, The Midnight Meat Train). The image below features your first look at Luke Evans (Clash of the Titans, The Raven) in the pic that also stars Adelaide Clemens (Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, Vampire, Wolverine), Lee Tergesen (Tobias Beecher from HBO’s “OZ”, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning), Laura Ramsey (The Ruins, The Covenant ), Lindsey Shaw (The Howling Reborn), America Olivo (Friday the 13th, Bitch Slap, Beau Knapp (Super 8), Derek Magyar and WWE wrestler Brodus Clay. READ MORE
First Look at ‘Midnight Meat Train’ Director’s ‘No One Lives’
We just scored the first ever image from WWE and Path UK’s No One Lives, which is being helmed by Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, The Midnight Meat Train). The image below features your first look at Luke Evans (Clash of the Titans, The Raven) in the pic that also stars Adelaide Clemens (Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, Vampire, Wolverine), Lee Tergesen (Tobias Beecher from HBO’s “OZ”, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning), Laura Ramsey (The Ruins, The Covenant ), Lindsey Shaw (The Howling Reborn), America Olivo (Friday the 13th, Bitch Slap, Beau Knapp (Super 8), Derek Magyar and WWE wrestler Brodus Clay. READ MORE
Image Entertainment Brings Wes Craven’s ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ to Blu-ray
Image Entertainment proudly announces the high-definition debut of a genuine cult gem with the September 6th Blu-ray premiere of Wes Craven’s 1977 horror classic The Hills Have Eyes. Featuring digitally restored 1080p video, DTS-ES 6.1 Master Audio sound, and over three hours of bonus features including audio commentary by writer/director Craven, retrospective featurettes on the film and the director, an alternate ending, U.S. and international trailers & spots, photo galleries, storyboards and more! A standard DVD edition, with commentary, will also be available. READ MORE
Sales Art for ‘Midnight Meat Train’ Director’s ‘No One Lives’
We just scored some early sales art for the latest WWE production and Path UK’s No One Lives, which will be helmed by Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, The Midnight Meat Train). READ MORE
‘Texas Chainsaw’/'Silent Hill’ Stars Align for ‘No One Lives’
While the trades reported with an incorrect synopsis and cast, we’ve got the skinny on who will actually be starring in WWE and Path UK’s No One Lives, which will be helmed by Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, The Midnight Meat Train). READ MORE
Massive Genre Cast Rounds Out WWE’s ‘No One Lives’
I’m truly a fan of Ryuhei Kitamura, who is one of the directors who got me wayyyyy into J-horror with his genre-mashing Versus, not to mention his pretty great U.S. debut with Lionsgate’s The Midnight Meat Train. READ MORE
First Look at Henchman Werewolf from ‘The Howling Reborn’
Shooting began this week on Moonstone Entertainment’s The Howling Reborn, the reboot of the werewolf franchise being helmed by Joe Nimziki. Today a behind-the-scenes image leaked that features a look at a “henchmen werewolves”. On the eve of his high school graduation, unremarkable Will Kidman finally bonds with the girl he has long yearned for, reclusive Eliana Wynter. But he also discovers a dark secret from his past… that he is about to become a werewolf. Now, in an effort to fight destiny and save their love as well as their lives, they must battle not only Will’s growing blood lust but an army of fearsome beasts bent on killing them… and then, us all. (more…) READ MORE
‘Hack/Slash’ Creator Finds Prey for Werewolves’ ‘Wild Game’
Bloody Disgusting has learned exclusively that “Hack/Slash” creator Tim Seeley is hard at work on a new comic franchise, moving him from slashers into the world of uber-violent werewolves. While the comic has yet to be released, Underground Films and Daniel Alter are teaming up to produce a live-action big screen version of Wild Game with Kevin Seamus Fahey (“The Forgotten”, “Battlestar Galactica”) penning the adaptation. Described as 30 Days of Night with werewolves, the plot sounds simply incredible. You can get more info and dig on some early art by reading on. (more…) READ MORE
A Look Back at a Hairy Franchise: The Transformation of ‘The Wolf Man’ Films
Contrary to popular belief, The Wolf Man is not the first Universal werewolf movie. That distinction goes to Werewolf of London, released six years earlier. That being said, the reason The Wolf Man is so much better remembered is because it was the first successful Universal werewolf movie, featuring a now-classic performance by Lon Chaney, Jr. as the title character. Sure, London has its charms, but The Wolf Man is really the movie that started it all.
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Clip from Final Episode of Joe Dante’s ‘Splatter’
A few weeks back Netflix announced it would be collaborating with renowned horror filmmaker Roger Corman (“Little Shop of Horrors,” “Pit and the Pendulum”) on a series of Internet Webisodes entitled Splatter, that debuted two days before Halloween. Anyone in America can instantly watch the Webisodes at www.netflix.com/splatter. In a plot twist, Mr. Corman, making his Internet video debut at age 83, is opening up the creative direction of the series by asking the public to vote on the fate of its characters. Beyond the break you’ll find the first clip from the final episode teasing tomorrow’s debut. Corey Feldman and Tony Todd star in the shorts directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins)! (more…) READ MORE
First Look at Joe Dante’s Online ‘Splatter’ Fest, Two Clips!
A few weeks back Netflix announced it would be collaborating with renowned horror filmmaker Roger Corman (“Little Shop of Horrors,” “Pit and the Pendulum”) on a series of Internet Webisodes entitled Splatter, scheduled to debut two days before Halloween (that’s tomorrow!). Anyone in America can instantly watch the Webisodes at www.netflix.com/splatter. In a plot twist, Mr. Corman, making his Internet video debut at age 83, is opening up the creative direction of the series by asking the public to vote on the fate of its characters. Beyond the break you’ll find the first clip teasing tomorrow’s debut. Corey Feldman and Tony Todd star in the shorts directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins)! (more…) READ MORE
Full Info on Feldman, Corman and Dante’s ‘Splatter’, First Photos!
Netflix, the world’s largest online movie rental service, today announced it is collaborating with renowned horror filmmaker Roger Corman (“Little Shop of Horrors,” “Pit and the Pendulum“) on a series of Internet Webisodes scheduled to debut two days before Halloween. Anyone in America can instantly watch the Webisodes at www.netflix.com/splatter. In a plot twist, Mr. Corman, making his Internet video debut at age 83, is opening up the creative direction of the series by asking the public to vote on the fate of its characters. (more…) READ MORE
Dee Wallace Enters West’s ‘House of the Devil’
Today we learned that Dee Wallace (The Howling, Cujo, Hills Have Eyes, Halloween), Mary B. McCann, Brenda Cooney (I Sell the Dead), John Speredakos (I Sell the Dead) and Heather Robb (The Roost, Trigger Man, I Sell the Dead) all join the previously announced Greta Gerwig, Jocelin Donahue, AJ Bowen, Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov in Ti West’s House of the Devil, which will be produced and released by Dark Sky Films, along with Larry Fessenden (the roost, Last Winter) and Josh Braun & Roger Kass (History of Violence). In the late 1980s, college student Samantha takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret; they plan to use her in a satanic ritual… (more…) READ MORE
Rob Zombie’s ‘Halloween’ Casting Continues…
Richard Lynch (Deathsport, Scarecrow, The Ninth Configuration) has been officially cast alongside The Howling II star Sybil Danning (which we broke the news on here) in Rob Zombie’s Halloween remake, according to his official blog. The film is currently shooting out and around the Los Angeles area. They join the massive cast of Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Daeg Faerch, Pat Skipper, Dee Wallace Stone, Sheri Moon Zombie, William Forsythe, Ken Foree, Danielle Harris, Adrienne Barbeau, Clint Howard, Courtney Gains, Daryl Sabara, Brad Dourif, Udo Kier and Kristina Klebel. Click the title above for more info. (more…) READ MORE
Laurie Strode’s Parents Cast in Rob Zombie’s ‘Halloween’
Rob Zombie is making sure his Halloween remake doesn’t leave any of your minds as he continues to take over our main page with more casting news. Today the rock shocker turned director revealed who will play Mason and Cynthia Strode, Laurie Strode’s parents in the new film, which hits theaters everywhere on August 31st. Read on for the latest casting news and watch this spot for more updates as they come in. Halloween begins shooting this month. (more…) READ MORE
Dante’s ‘The Howling’ Transforms into a Remake?
Short but sweet news over at iFMagazine, according to creator Joe Dante another remake is on the way… this time The Howling. “They are definitely going to do it, because people keep calling me asking about who owns the rights to it.,” Dante tells the online mag. In the original, after 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. More details as it comes in, sounds like this one might still be ways downt he road. (more…) READ MORE
Masters of Horror on DVD: Joe Dante’s ‘Homecoming’
Sometimes Horror Reaches From Beyond The Grave Into The Headlines… Homecoming directed by Joe Dante, perhaps the most controversial feature of the critically-acclaimed Masters of Horror (all reviews) anthology series, bows on DVD on Tuesday, July 11th, from Anchor Bay Entertainment, an IDT Entertainment company. Decorated with a phalanx of bonus features, “Homecoming” brandishes an SRP of $16.98. Pre-book is June 7, 2006. Read on to see all of the goodies… (more…) READ MORE
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