the creature effects are good
they needed someone who understood lighting and camera angles and such
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The Director Joe Dante admits in the commentary track that he was not really good at blocking yet, so he tried to compensate with shorter cuts so the audience didn't notice. 🤷♂️
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🎃 Test audiences wanted to see a transition for the final werewolf. Actress Dee Wallace told the crew she did not want to be an ugly werewolf, but the look should represent her hard-fought resistance.
🎃 So Bottin created a softer form, but he thought it looked too much like a female Wookie.
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🎃 Test audiences wanted to see a transition for the final werewolf. Actress Dee Wallace told the crew she did not want to be an ugly werewolf, but the look should represent her hard-fought resistance.
🎃 So Bottin created a softer form, but he thought it looked too much like a female Wookie.
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Stephen Spielberg has been a huge fan of The Howling. In fact, this is where he discovered Dee Wallace who he used for the role of Mary in E.T.: The Extraterrestrial
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💸 Low Budget Film School 🌌👽🪐🌫️
Reuse and Recycle
Like in The Howling, where they reused set dressings from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). Look for the corpse in an armchair in Walter Paisley's bookstore. Probably pretty ripe by now.
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🎃 Some context for the Smiley face buttons and stickers...
First appearing in 1963, by 1971 over 50 million smiley face buttons alone had been produced. T-shirts, stickers and other pop culture appearances were ubiquitous.
🎃 I barely made it through this period with my insanity intact. So it's not surprising that by 1980, the image was ripe for use in dark storylines.
More: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/who-really-invented-the-smiley-face-2058483/
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Picardo was almost strangeled by an errant air bladder near his neck during the transition shooting.
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Picardo came up with the line "I want to give you a piece of my mind" (then removes a bullet from his head) on his own!
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"Maybe she's pregnant, who knows"
It's fun when the movie is urging you to wish death upon one of the characters
What woman hasn't had her male therapist invite her to his country retreat
I like how this movie is promoting art as a great hobby for everyone
"Maybe she's pregnant, who knows"
It's fun when the movie is urging you to wish death upon one of the characters
Quick Draw McGraw sounds like he belongs in that store
I like how this movie is promoting art as a great hobby for everyone
@Taweret Somehow they missed her, though? Minus 5 accuracy points. #Monsterdon #TheHowling1981
I hate it when people interrupt my public bathroom monlogues
Quick Draw McGraw sounds like he belongs in that store
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🚨 CAMEO!!! 🚨
ROGER CORMAN (director Joe Dante's mentor) is waiting to use the phone booth after "Karen White." Notice how he checks for coins in the slot. Dante is joking about how Corman was a penny-pincher.
But this scene is also an homage to director William Castle's appearance at a phone booth in "Rosemary's Baby," waiting for Mia Farrow. (This was actually confirmed June 2025 at a convention)
Hey hey it's #Monsterdon time! We're watching The Howling, it's on Tubi at the link below. Join us!
I hate it when people interrupt my public bathroom monlogues
🦖 #MONSTERDON 🎞️
🚨 CAMEO!!! 🚨
ROGER CORMAN (director Joe Dante's mentor) is waiting to use the phone booth after "Karen White." Notice how he checks for coins in the slot. Dante is joking about how Corman was a penny-pincher.
But this scene is also an homage to director William Castle's appearance at a phone booth in "Rosemary's Baby," waiting for Mia Farrow. (This was actually confirmed June 2025 at a convention)
Hey hey it's #Monsterdon time! We're watching The Howling, it's on Tubi at the link below. Join us!
tonight's #Monsterdon movie is:
and appears to be available in the US on Amazon Prime streaming in addition to the commercial-interrupted tubi version
find it where you can and start the film with us at 6pm pacific / 8pm central / mutatis mutandis
and make the riffs rain!
more from our host:
https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/115442045204471462
tonight's #Monsterdon movie is:
and appears to be available in the US on Amazon Prime streaming in addition to the commercial-interrupted tubi version
find it where you can and start the film with us at 6pm pacific / 8pm central / mutatis mutandis
and make the riffs rain!
more from our host:
https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/115442045204471462
