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Product descriptionThe HowlingA graduate of Roger Corman s school of low-budget ingenuity Joe Dante gained enough momentum with 1978 sPiranha to rise to the challenge ofThe Howling and he brought alongPiranha screenwriter John Sayles to cowrite this instant werewolf classic. Makeup wizard Rob Bottin was recruited to create what was then the wildest onscreen transformation ever seen. With Gary Brandner s novelThe Howling as a starting point Sayles and Dante conceived a werewolf colony on the California coast posing as a self-help haven LED by a seemingly benevolent doctor (Patrick Macnee) and populated by a variety of patients from sexy leather-clad sirens (among them Elisabeth Brooks) to an old coot (John Carradine) who s quite literally long in the tooth. When a TV reporter (Dee Wallace) arrives at the colony to recover from a recent trauma the resident lycanthropes prepare for a howlin good time. Dante handles it all with equal measures of humor sex gore and horror pulling out all th