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The Howling

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The Howling	comment	The Howling is a series of loosely-connected werewolf horror-comedy filmsnote the exact balance of horror and comedy depends upon the individual installment and part of The Howling franchise. They are loosely based on the trilogy of novels by Gary Brandner, though most of the films bear only a glancing resemblance to any of the novels.The first film was released in 1981 and was followed by seven sequels, the last of which was released in 2011. Most of the sequels are standalone stories with no shared characters and events; the exceptions are the second movie, which is connected to the first by virtue of the main character being the previously-unmentioned brother of the original film's heroine, and the seventh movie, which makes an attempt at Arc Welding the previous three films and has returning characters. The main thing the movies have in common is people having encounters with werewolves, which usually doesn't go well for them.The following movies have their own pages: The Howling (1981) Howling II: Stirba: Werewolf Bitch (1985) Howling III: The Marsupials (1987)Other movies in the series include: Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988): Author Marie Adams is troubled by disturbing dreams and visions of nuns, werewolves and burning churches. On the advice of Marie's doctor, she and her husband Richard rent a cottage in the remote town of Drago so she can recover from her apparent nervous breakdown. However, Drago is not as peaceful as it appears, with Marieâ€™s visions continuing, while she is also troubled by the sounds of howling and the strangeness of the townsfolk. Richard is drawn to seductive artist Eleanor, while Marie tries to uncover the mystery behind Drago and her dark visions. It's not so much a sequel as it is a more faithful adaptation of the original novel, though it still makes some substantial changes to the plot. Howling V: The Rebirth (1989): A mysterious Hungarian count invites six strangers to the reopening of a castle in Budapest with a dark past. According to local folklore, centuries ago the region was terrorised by werewolves. When the inhabitants of the castle start to be picked off one-by-one by a seemingly supernatural killer, they start to realise the tale is more than a legend. Howling VI: The Freaks (1991): A young drifter named Ian Richards who is secretly a werewolf is imprisoned in a travelling freakshow, under the control of the sinister circus owner, R.B. Harker. Ian must find a way to escape while also battling his curse and grappling with his growing feelings for Elizabeth, a local pastor's daughter. Howling: New Moon Rising (1995): A detective, the priest Father John and Australian drifter Ted Smith investigate a recent string of killings in Pioneertown, California, with Father John being convinced werewolves are responsible. The townsfolk begin to believe Ted is the culprit and he must find the real werewolf before heâ€™s taken out by a lynch mob. The Howling: Reborn (2011): Eighteen years after his mother was killed by a werewolf, high schooler Will Kidman discovers he himself has werewolf heritage. When a pack of vicious werewolves invades Will's school, it's up to Will to rally his friends and his crush to defend themselves and escape, though matters are complicated when Will discovers the threat is closer to home than ever imagined.A remake of the original movie is in early planning stages for Netflix. As of this writing, the remake is set to be directed by AndrÃ©s Muschietti, the director of the It duology.
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The Howling / int_11e0d645	type	Arc Symbol
The Howling / int_11e0d645	comment	Arc Symbol: A red circle shows up as a recurring symbol throughout the film. Kathryn is shown painting the circle in the prologue and the bald man has it as a tattoo on the back of his head. The significance of this is never made clear.
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The Howling / int_17d55c6e	type	Nuns Are Spooky
The Howling / int_17d55c6e	comment	Nuns Are Spooky: Marie has visions of a creepy nun throughout the film.
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The Howling / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
The Howling / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: Will is bullied by a taller student named Roland, who cuts his neck and later intends to shoot Will for standing up to him.
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The Howling / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
The Howling / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: One of the Werewolves is killed by being stabbed in the back with a silver 2nd place trophy.
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The Howling / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
The Howling / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: The prologue features a couple who impale themselves on the same sword after murdering the rest of their guests.
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The Howling / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
The Howling / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: The werewolf's attacks are often accompanied by the chanting of the Latin word sanctus (sacred).
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The Howling / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Howling / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Marie Adams goes from the main heroine in 4 to a villainess in 7—albeit due to being controlled by the werewolf in 7.
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The Howling / int_228cb20	type	Adaptational Mundanity
The Howling / int_228cb20	comment	Adaptational Mundanity: Inverted; the film features the heroine experiencing prophetic dreams and visions in addition to the werewolves, which the novel lacks.
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The Howling / int_23568a2a	type	Adaptational Job Change
The Howling / int_23568a2a	comment	Adaptational Job Change: In the novel the heroine is a convention/event hostess at a hotel, while here she's a novelist.
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The Howling / int_25e18c14	type	Haunted Castle
The Howling / int_25e18c14	comment	Haunted Castle: The ancestral home of the werewolf, and all the guests.
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The Howling / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
The Howling / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: In the prologue, Will's mother is attacked by a Werewolf whose human form is a tall bald man.
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The Howling / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
The Howling / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: To protect Eliana from being killed by the Werewolf pack, Will throws himself and Eliana out of a high story window and uses his own body to cushion Eliana from the fall to save her life. They do it again once both of them have become Werewolves to escape from the burning school.
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The Howling / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Howling / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Despite being based on the same source material as the 1981 film, The Original Nightmare lacks an Eddie/Max Quist equivalent.
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The Howling / int_3ac2aa04	type	Deadly Hug
The Howling / int_3ac2aa04	comment	Deadly Hug: At the end of the film, David and The Count tell Marylou to shoot the other, the Count being convinced that David is the werewolf killing everyone and David believing the Count is a crazy murderer. Marylou fires once...and David rushes to hug her telling her everything is okay now. Then the full moon shines down on the pair as Marylou grins savagely.
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The Howling / int_3f92ad39	type	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight
The Howling / int_3f92ad39	comment	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Eliana turns into a Werewolf and kills the Alpha Werewolf. Will is able to bring her to her senses by reminding her of their relationship which subsequently gives her enough control to become human again.
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The Howling / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
The Howling / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: 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.
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The Howling / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
The Howling / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Anna, a Scandinavian movie star, first appears with a silver and white mink coat draped over her shoulders.
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The Howling / int_4510b368	type	Ambiguous Gender
The Howling / int_4510b368	comment	Ambiguous Gender: One of Harker's loyal performers is non-conforming person who performs a solo double act with a male appearance on one side of their body and a female appearance on the other. At the very least they let the audience know their breasts are real.
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The Howling / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
The Howling / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Subverted: 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 fourth film turns out to have survived the events of that film... only to be killed off after an appearance lasting about ten minutes.
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The Howling / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Howling / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: 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, with a lot of Gorn. The second Werewolf transformation involves the recipient ripping his jaw apart before his face reforms into a beast-man appearance.
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The Howling / int_51a12a6f	type	Hong Kong Dub
The Howling / int_51a12a6f	comment	Hong Kong Dub: 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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The Howling / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
The Howling / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Will's bully is killed after a Werewolf throws him down a stairwell.
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The Howling / int_5fc68f05	type	There Was a Door
The Howling / int_5fc68f05	comment	There Was a Door: The werewolf is huge and has a tendency to simply explode through walls, snow drifts and doors—how the thing quietly disguises itself as human is anyone's guess.
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The Howling / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
The Howling / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Will and Eliana have revealed the existence of Werewolves to the world. News reports over the credits reveal that Werewolves have been sighted on at least four continents. The Bald Man is still out there.
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The Howling / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Howling / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Harker is a vampire, and has been framing Ian for the murders. After this, Fur Against Fang climax gets into gear.
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The Howling / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Howling / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The vampire is named "Harker", which is a Shout-Out to Dracula, where two characters have the surname Harker (Jonathan Harker and Mina, after she marries Jonathan).
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The Howling / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
The Howling / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: The Bald man is only shown from the back of his head with a red circle tattoo being his only other identifying feature.
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The Howling / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
The Howling / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: How the werewolf kills most of its victims.
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The Howling / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Howling / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: How the Werewolves kill Sachin.
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The Howling / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
The Howling / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: The first film has a lot of Black Comedy, satire and humorous inside jokes regarding werewolf fiction, but overall it's a serious and scary horror film. Some of the sequels incorporate more comedy, with Stirba: Werewolf Bitch, The Marsupials and especially New Moon Rising having a lot more goofy and campy moments. The other four sequels are generally more serious in tone.
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The Howling / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Howling / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Harker loses his cool near the end when the mob he formed to kill the werewolf hero refuses to shoot him because he is still in human form — they were prepared to kill a dangerous monster, not an unarmed man. Harker then tries to kill the hero personally.
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The Howling / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Howling / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Harker is quite cosy with the town residents and polite to Winston upon taking him into his carnival, but in actuality is an abusive control freak and murderer who enjoys humiliating his freaks and at one point tries to make his werewolf eat a cat.
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The Howling / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Howling / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Kathryn Kidman is the leader of the werewolf pack terrorising the school; she intends to create an army of werewolves to Take Over the World and wants to recruit Will her son, whether he wants this or not.
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The Howling / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Howling / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The Bald Man who infects Kathryn is the root cause of all the misery in the film yet is completely irrelevant to the main plot otherwise.
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The Howling / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Howling / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Once again, a large pack of Werewolves are destroyed by being sealed in a burning building.
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The Howling / int_9ebd9c33	type	UnPerson
The Howling / int_9ebd9c33	comment	Un-person: Janice, who died in a Heroic Sacrifice at the end of 4, isn't mentioned or seen at all in the flashback footage, which gives the unwitting impression that Marie is attempting to take all the credit for stopping the werewolves in that film.
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The Howling / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
The Howling / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Will's Werewolf powers include healing from severe injuries, something he realises after cutting his own wrist.
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The Howling / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Howling / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Will never learns about the existence of the Bald man who infected his mother and the ending makes it clear that he's still out there.
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The Howling / int_a9c40434	type	Birthmark of Destiny
The Howling / int_a9c40434	comment	Birthmark of Destiny: The Count reveals that all the guests were brought to the castle because all of them have birthmark in a shape of a wolf's head on their right arm, making them descendants of a bloodline that can turn one into a werewolf.
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The Howling / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Howling / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Marie Adams, the main protagonist in 4, turned heel in this film, as she's revealed as a conspirator in the plot to set up Ted. She's later killed by the actual werewolf, and it's followed by Marie's heel turn being uncovered in the climax.
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The Howling / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The Howling / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Marie's recurring dreams and visions warn of the werewolf threat and how she can stop them, though she doesn't realise the significance until she's already in grave danger.
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The Howling / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Howling / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Anna the Scandinavian actress gets several nude scenes and several of the male characters are clearly attracted to her.
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The Howling / int_b41c411e	type	Toilet Humour
The Howling / int_b41c411e	comment	Toilet Humour: A gag about bad chili culminates in the occupants of a bar leaving en masse from the foul smell of farts.
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The Howling / int_b552b24	type	Truer to the Text
The Howling / int_b552b24	comment	Truer to the Text: The plot follows the original Gary Brandner novel more closely than the first film, though it still makes some significant changes to the story and characters. Some of the most notable differences include the majority of the characters having different names and backgrounds, the plotline involving nuns,note the book mentions that Inez Polk used to be a nun and it's partly why she knows so much about werewolves, but aside from that it's not as significant to the plot as it is in this film and the heroine's recurring visions. The climax also plays out a bit differently, although both involve the werewolves being locked up in a burning building.
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The Howling / int_b6a13a56	type	Ten Little Murder Victims
The Howling / int_b6a13a56	comment	Ten Little Murder Victims: There's exactly one werewolf among the castle guests (at least the film implies that). And the guests are killed one by one...
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The Howling / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Howling / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Tom Billings is loosely based on Chris Halloran, who in the novel is one of the main characters and plays a major role in the climax, coming to rescue Karyn from Drago armed with silver bullets (he plays a very similar and important role in the 1981 film). Tom, on the other hand, only appears in this film's first act and does little of significance besides driving Marie to Drago.
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The Howling / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
The Howling / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: Harker forces Ian to turn into a Werewolf by uttering a spell into his ear so he can be used as an attraction at his freak show.
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The Howling / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: The first movie and a few of the sequels loosely adapt the books by Gary Brandner, but many of the films have no connection to them beyond revolving around werewolves and featuring "The Howling" in the title. The Howling shares its basic premise and certain plot points with the first novel, but otherwise tells its own story and the way it depicts the werewolves differs slightly (in the book they transform into unusually large wolves, while the movie popularised the depiction of bipedal humanoid wolves). The Marsupials is credited as being based on The Howling III: Echoes, but adapts virtually nothing from that book; about the only things they share in common are taking a more sympathetic stance on the werebeasts than is typical for the franchise. The Original Nightmare is heavily inspired by the first novel, actually being more faithful to the book than the 1981 movie in places, though it also takes several liberties, such as adding a plotline about nuns and the heroine being plagued by mysterious visions and dreams. The Freaks bears little resemblance to any of the novels, but it does take a few pointers from the third book, such as featuring a sympathetic werewolf protagonist and werewolves working for a carnival freakshow. Reborn is credited as being based on the second book, The Howling II, but it actually has more in common with the first and third books while still mostly being its own thing, such as starring a sympathetic young werewolf whose parent is revealed as the Big Bad and ending with the protagonists burning down a building to kill the evil werewolves; it also takes cues from the first movie by having the last scene feature the protagonist transform on-camera to reveal the existence of werewolves.
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The Howling / int_ba46585b	comment	Adaptational Backstory Change: In the book, Karyn moves to Drago to recuperate after being brutally raped and suffering a miscarriage, with her psychological problems clearly stemming from post-traumatic stress disorder. Here, Marie moves to Drago to relax after she experiences disturbing dreams and visions, which are attributed to stress and an overactive imagination. In the book, the ex-nun Karyn befriends, Inez, left the order under a cloud; she was outed as being attracted to women after being caught in bed with a novitiate. In this movie, Janice left her convent under far less scandalous circumstances, intending to search for answers about the mysterious death of her friend, Sister Ruth.
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The Howling / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: Kathryn's interest towards her son is laced with disturbing sexual undertones. Word of God claims that this was intentional, to make her look more bestial since embracing her werewolf side.
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The Howling / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Most of the cast is portrayed by Aussie-Californians with no acting experience. It shows in their performances.
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The Howling / int_c26e2b1	type	New Powers as the Plot Demands
The Howling / int_c26e2b1	comment	New Powers as the Plot Demands: This Werewolf apparently has the power to take over peoples bodies and is possessing one of the town inhabitants, despite being the same Werewolf from The Rebirth.
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The Howling / int_c949edd4	comment	Magic Pants: 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).
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The Howling / int_d0a46264	comment	Red Filter of Doom: Most of the Werewolf attacks are shot from a POV perspective. Unfortunately the filter is incredibly overexposed leaving it hard to tell what's happening in the frame.
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The Howling / int_d2102da0	comment	Bad People Abuse Animals: Harker throws Winston's cat to a recently transformed Ian as part of the show, hoping the Werewolf will devour the cat. Because of his friendship with Winston, Ian regains his senses before he can eat the kitty. The other carnival freaks later kill the cat anyway which convinces Winston to help Ian and turn him against Harker for good.
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The Howling / int_dba4ae4f	type	Arc Welding
The Howling / int_dba4ae4f	comment	Arc Welding: 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 Info Dumps.
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The Howling / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Despite being more faithful in terms of plot, the film changes many characters' names from the book. The main heroine's name goes from Karyn Beatty to Marie Adams. Marie's husband goes from Roy to Richard. The werewolf seductress goes from Marcia Lura to Eleanor. In the book, the former nun who befriends the heroine is named Inez Polk, while here she's named Janice Hatch. Marie's agent Tom Billings is loosely based on Chris Halloran. The older couple who run Drago's general store and turn out to be werewolves are named the Jolivets in the novel, while here they're the Ormsteads.
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The Howling / int_dde7da12	comment	Come to Gawk: Harker owns a carnival, with a freak sideshow among its attractions. He tries to get Ian into the sideshow.
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The Howling / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Gail is the first one to notice the strange things that start happening and is very suspicious of why they're at the castle. She's killed off early in the film.
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The Howling / int_e390612a	type	Hollywood Satanism
The Howling / int_e390612a	comment	Hollywood Satanism: These werewolves happen to worship Satan.
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The Howling / int_f67171cc	comment	Empathy Doll Shot: After transforming back to human, Ian finds a doll next to him. Knowing that its owner is most certainly dead, he picks it up, racked with guilt. It was planted by Harker.
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The Howling / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: The Werewolf in this movie lacks control over his transformations and is triggered by the full moon or a spell being uttered. His appearance has a more human-like face than those seen in prior Howling movies.
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The Howling / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: Will's friend Sachin provides a lot of the comic relief moments early on in the film. His death marks the point where the film becomes a lot darker.
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