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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie And Then Karen Was A Werewolf]]: [[spoiler: While trying to escape, Karen gets bitten by her werewolf husband. As her last plight, she decides to go on live-television to warn the people about the werewolves and then transforms into one to prove her point]].
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* MoneyDearBoy: During the filming of ''Gremlins2TheNewBatch'', ChristopherLee ''[[Film/{{Gremlins}} Gremlins 2: The New Batch]]'', Creator/ChristopherLee apologized to Joe Dante for appearing in ''TheHowling ''The Howling II''.
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* OhCrap: The Werewolf mob's reaction when the hero shoots one of their own dead with silver ammunition and they realize that they are all easy targets out in the open for a human with the means to kill them easily.
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weapons. For some odd reason [[spoiler:Karen]] is also immune to silver, despite only having been a werewolf for a couple of weeks at most.
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* TheArtifact: There's some strong evidence that the movie was originally going to be a vampire movie due to all the traditional vampire-killing methods being applied to werewolves, their leader being a woman who stays alive by sucking the youth out of people, it taking place in Transylvania and so on.
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* HongKongDub: A lot of the film was shot without any on-set sound recording due to budget problems. As a result, we get a mixture of this trope and the characters constantly having their backs facing the camera when speaking their dialogue.
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* FollowTheLeader: Obviously trying to cash in on the ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' craze.
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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Subverted in ''TheHowling VII'', in which two very minor characters in ''4'' and ''5'' are revealed to be the same person... who is also the hero of ''7''.
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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome:Subverted in ''TheHowling VII'', in which Subverted: two very minor characters in ''4'' and ''5'' are revealed to be the same person... who is also the hero of ''7''.
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''TheHowling'' (1981) is a werewolf {{horror}} {{film}} directed by JoeDante, loosely based on the book of the same name by Gary Brandner.
After a bizarre and near-fatal encounter with serial killer Eddie "The Mangler" Quist, television anchorwoman Karen White is left traumatized and in dire need of a rest. Her psychiatrist sends her and her husband to The Colony, a rural retreat where select patients go to relax and participate in group therapy. However, Karen notices that The Colony appears to be populated by a number of odd characters, which together with the remote location and the strange howling she hears at night soon lead Karen to believe that something is very wrong here. When she starts looking into The Colony's affairs, the apparent resurrection of Eddie Quist soon proves to be the least of her problems...
[[AC: The Howling was followed by six sequels:]]
* ''Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf'' (1985) aka. ''Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch'' (a direct sequel).
* ''Howling III: The Marsupials'' (1987)
* ''Howling IV: The Original Nightmare'' (1988)
* ''Howling V: The Rebirth'' (1989)
* ''Howling VI: The Freaks'' (1991)
* ''Howling VII: New Moon Rising'' aka. ''Howling VII: Mystery Woman'' (1995)
Over 16 years since the past sequel, the series was rebooted with ''The Howling: Reborn''.
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!! ''The Howling'' contains examples of:
[[AC:General]]
* AnimalMotifs: As if all the werewolves weren't enough, there's lots of wolf motifs present.
* BodyHorror: Transformations courtesy of Rob Bottin, the effects guy from ''Film/TheThing''.
* MeaningfulName: Nearly all the characters in the first film are named after werewolf film directors.
** The vampire character in Part 6 is named "Harker".
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Popularized the "man-wolf" style of werewolf.
** Also, ''The Howling III''. Subversion of most common movie werewolf "rules", which the therianthropes find humorously inaccurate. Moreover, they're were-thylacines - making them thylanthropes, instead of lycanthropes.
* TransformationSequence.
* WeaksauceWeakness: To silver. And, oddly enough, also to titanium in the second movie.
** Actually, the younger werewolves have a WeaksauceWeakness to both silver and titanium. The elders, like Stirba, have 'outgrown' the weakness to silver, so titanium must be used.
[[AC:The Book]]
[[AC:The Movie]]
* AllThereInTheManual: Apparently, Marsha was intended to be Eddie's sister. You'd never know.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler: While trying to escape, Karen gets bitten by her werewolf husband. As her last plight, she decides to go on live-television to warn the people about the werewolves and then transforms into one to prove her point]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing: The Colony.
* DeadlineNews: In order to prove to the world that werewolves exist, [[spoiler: Karen transforms into one on live-television and is shot dead by her friend. Her sacrifice may or may not have been in vain]].
* DuelingMovies: Set against ''AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''.
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler: While people in a bar watch Karen last broadcast, Marsha Quist is shown alive and well ordering a rare burger]].
* FamousLastWords:
** "Don't you know anything?" [[spoiler:Eddie Quist]]
** "Tonight... I'm going to show you something... to make you believe..." [[spoiler:Karen White]]
* HeroicBSOD: Karen suffers one of these her first time back on TV after being attacked by Eddie.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: Chris]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Karen ''is'' a famous anchorwoman, and she ''would'' be missed.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Eddie Quist]]'s transformation into a werewolf at the end of the movie.
* PainfulTransformation: [[spoiler: averted in the first film with Eddie as he seems to be enjoying it.]]
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Somewhat justified as he had her pinned, and she was probably too busy shitting herself to act.
* WeirdnessCensor: Many ApatheticCitizens see a live werewolf transformation on the evening news and pass it off as "special effects" for little reason.
[[AC:Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf]]
* EyeScream: Stirba has a spell that causes its victims' eyeballs to explode in a fountain of blood. Fortunately, the heroes are able to neutralize the spell with their holy earplugs (yes, you read that correctly)... until Stefan's dwarf friend trips over and loses his earplugs.
* FanService: Virtually every moment that Sybil Danning spends on-screen in the film.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSTVPUFHM-8 Especially the end credits]], which take it UpToEleven.
* FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin: They don't even make it remotely look like the scene from the first movie.
* LiquidAssets: Stirba's rejuvenating technique requires a young victim, from whom Stirba magically steals her youth.
* MoneyDearBoy: During the filming of ''{{Gremlins}} 2'', ChristopherLee apologized to Joe Dante for appearing in ''TheHowling II''.
* MonsterProgenitor: Stirba.
* RuleOfSeanConnery: ChristopherLee makes this movie at least tolerable in virtue of owning every single scene he's in.
* ShoutOut: A murderous dwarf with a knife? Sounds suspiciously like ''DontLookNow''.
* TimeAbyss: Unlike other werewolves, Stirba can restore her youth. She is very nearly ten thousand years old.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Stirba is so old that she somehow became immune to silver. Luckily for the heroes, it appears that werewolves, including Stirba, also can be harmed by titanium weapons.
[[AC:Howling III: Marsupials]]
* MoodDissonance: It's sometimes not clear if this is supposed to be a comedy, a horror, a GreenAesop about not hunting animals to extinction, or what.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Features were-thylacines. Thylacines are an extinct marsupial predator more commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger.
* SdrawkcabName: The town of Flow in the third movie.
[[AC:Howling IV: The Original Nightmare]]
* BodyHorror: Especially prominent in this film. The first transformation is quite horrific - it consists of the body disintegrating into a puddle of goo and then rebuilding itself into a wolfman shape.
[[AC:Howling V: The Rebirth]]
* [[LockedInARoom Locked In A Castle]]
* MagicPants: The werewolf is clearly a quick-change artist, due to how rapidly it appears and yet how fully clothed everyone is (including the werewolf's human form).
* TenLittleMurderVictims: There's exactly one werewolf among the castle guests - well, presumably, anyway. And the guests are killed one by one...
[[AC:Howling VI: The Freaks]]
* FurAgainstFang: ''The Howling VI'' pits a werewolf protagonist against a vampire villain.
[[AC:Howling VII: New Moon Rising]]
* ArcWelding: Clive Turner does a fairly admirable job at assembling the plots from the previous sequels into one narrative... unfortunately, these are delivered mainly in massive InfoDumps.
* FranchiseKiller: Effectively killed the franchise for sixteen years until 2011 when the series was rebooted.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: ''New Moon Rising'' features a bunch of Australians who just happen to be living in the California Desert for no apparent reason. Since most of the film's cast were the real-life inhabitants of a Californian town, odds are that these random Australians are friends of the film's Aussie director, Clive Turner.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Subverted in ''TheHowling VII'', in which two very minor characters in ''4'' and ''5'' are revealed to be the same person... who is also the hero of ''7''.
** Played straight in the same film -- the heroine of the ''4'' turns out to have survived the events of that film... only to be KilledOffForReal after an appearance lasting about ten minutes.
[[AC:The Howling: Reborn]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to the previous sequels.
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''TheHowling'' (1981) is a werewolf {{horror}} {{film}} directed by JoeDante, loosely based on the book of the same name by Gary Brandner.
After a bizarre and near-fatal encounter with serial killer Eddie "The Mangler" Quist, television anchorwoman Karen White is left traumatized and in dire need of a rest. Her psychiatrist sends her and her husband to The Colony, a rural retreat where select patients go to relax and participate in group therapy. However, Karen notices that The Colony appears to be populated by a number of odd characters, which together with the remote location and the strange howling she hears at night soon lead Karen to believe that something is very wrong here. When she starts looking into The Colony's affairs, the apparent resurrection of Eddie Quist soon proves to be the least of her problems...
[[AC: The Howling was followed by six sequels:]]
* ''Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf'' (1985) aka. ''Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch'' (a direct sequel).
* ''Howling III: The Marsupials'' (1987)
* ''Howling IV: The Original Nightmare'' (1988)
* ''Howling V: The Rebirth'' (1989)
* ''Howling VI: The Freaks'' (1991)
* ''Howling VII: New Moon Rising'' aka. ''Howling VII: Mystery Woman'' (1995)
Over 16 years since the past sequel, the series was rebooted with ''The Howling: Reborn''.
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!! ''The Howling'' contains examples of:
[[AC:General]]
* AnimalMotifs: As if all the werewolves weren't enough, there's lots of wolf motifs present.
* BodyHorror: Transformations courtesy of Rob Bottin, the effects guy from ''Film/TheThing''.
* MeaningfulName: Nearly all the characters in the first film are named after werewolf film directors.
** The vampire character in Part 6 is named "Harker".
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Popularized the "man-wolf" style of werewolf.
** Also, ''The Howling III''. Subversion of most common movie werewolf "rules", which the therianthropes find humorously inaccurate. Moreover, they're were-thylacines - making them thylanthropes, instead of lycanthropes.
* TransformationSequence.
* WeaksauceWeakness: To silver. And, oddly enough, also to titanium in the second movie.
** Actually, the younger werewolves have a WeaksauceWeakness to both silver and titanium. The elders, like Stirba, have 'outgrown' the weakness to silver, so titanium must be used.
[[AC:The Book]]
[[AC:The Movie]]
* AllThereInTheManual: Apparently, Marsha was intended to be Eddie's sister. You'd never know.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler: While trying to escape, Karen gets bitten by her werewolf husband. As her last plight, she decides to go on live-television to warn the people about the werewolves and then transforms into one to prove her point]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing: The Colony.
* DeadlineNews: In order to prove to the world that werewolves exist, [[spoiler: Karen transforms into one on live-television and is shot dead by her friend. Her sacrifice may or may not have been in vain]].
* DuelingMovies: Set against ''AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''.
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler: While people in a bar watch Karen last broadcast, Marsha Quist is shown alive and well ordering a rare burger]].
* FamousLastWords:
** "Don't you know anything?" [[spoiler:Eddie Quist]]
** "Tonight... I'm going to show you something... to make you believe..." [[spoiler:Karen White]]
* HeroicBSOD: Karen suffers one of these her first time back on TV after being attacked by Eddie.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: Chris]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Karen ''is'' a famous anchorwoman, and she ''would'' be missed.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Eddie Quist]]'s transformation into a werewolf at the end of the movie.
* PainfulTransformation: [[spoiler: averted in the first film with Eddie as he seems to be enjoying it.]]
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Somewhat justified as he had her pinned, and she was probably too busy shitting herself to act.
* WeirdnessCensor: Many ApatheticCitizens see a live werewolf transformation on the evening news and pass it off as "special effects" for little reason.
[[AC:Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf]]
* EyeScream: Stirba has a spell that causes its victims' eyeballs to explode in a fountain of blood. Fortunately, the heroes are able to neutralize the spell with their holy earplugs (yes, you read that correctly)... until Stefan's dwarf friend trips over and loses his earplugs.
* FanService: Virtually every moment that Sybil Danning spends on-screen in the film.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSTVPUFHM-8 Especially the end credits]], which take it UpToEleven.
* FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin: They don't even make it remotely look like the scene from the first movie.
* LiquidAssets: Stirba's rejuvenating technique requires a young victim, from whom Stirba magically steals her youth.
* MoneyDearBoy: During the filming of ''{{Gremlins}} 2'', ChristopherLee apologized to Joe Dante for appearing in ''TheHowling II''.
* MonsterProgenitor: Stirba.
* RuleOfSeanConnery: ChristopherLee makes this movie at least tolerable in virtue of owning every single scene he's in.
* ShoutOut: A murderous dwarf with a knife? Sounds suspiciously like ''DontLookNow''.
* TimeAbyss: Unlike other werewolves, Stirba can restore her youth. She is very nearly ten thousand years old.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Stirba is so old that she somehow became immune to silver. Luckily for the heroes, it appears that werewolves, including Stirba, also can be harmed by titanium weapons.
[[AC:Howling III: Marsupials]]
* MoodDissonance: It's sometimes not clear if this is supposed to be a comedy, a horror, a GreenAesop about not hunting animals to extinction, or what.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Features were-thylacines. Thylacines are an extinct marsupial predator more commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger.
* SdrawkcabName: The town of Flow in the third movie.
[[AC:Howling IV: The Original Nightmare]]
* BodyHorror: Especially prominent in this film. The first transformation is quite horrific - it consists of the body disintegrating into a puddle of goo and then rebuilding itself into a wolfman shape.
[[AC:Howling V: The Rebirth]]
* [[LockedInARoom Locked In A Castle]]
* MagicPants: The werewolf is clearly a quick-change artist, due to how rapidly it appears and yet how fully clothed everyone is (including the werewolf's human form).
* TenLittleMurderVictims: There's exactly one werewolf among the castle guests - well, presumably, anyway. And the guests are killed one by one...
[[AC:Howling VI: The Freaks]]
* FurAgainstFang: ''The Howling VI'' pits a werewolf protagonist against a vampire villain.
[[AC:Howling VII: New Moon Rising]]
* ArcWelding: Clive Turner does a fairly admirable job at assembling the plots from the previous sequels into one narrative... unfortunately, these are delivered mainly in massive InfoDumps.
* FranchiseKiller: Effectively killed the franchise for sixteen years until 2011 when the series was rebooted.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: ''New Moon Rising'' features a bunch of Australians who just happen to be living in the California Desert for no apparent reason. Since most of the film's cast were the real-life inhabitants of a Californian town, odds are that these random Australians are friends of the film's Aussie director, Clive Turner.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Subverted in ''TheHowling VII'', in which two very minor characters in ''4'' and ''5'' are revealed to be the same person... who is also the hero of ''7''.
** Played straight in the same film -- the heroine of the ''4'' turns out to have survived the events of that film... only to be KilledOffForReal after an appearance lasting about ten minutes.
[[AC:The Howling: Reborn]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to the previous sequels.
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