THE HOWLING 1981 (SHOUT FACTORY)

One of the greatest horror films ever come to Blu-ray.

In 1981 this was ground breaking stuff. The special effects are top notch and were way ahead of the game.

After an encounter with a serial killer a young woman reporter has trouble adjusting to normal life and she is told by a kind doctor to take a vacation with her husband to a place called the Coloney. Dee Wallace and Christopher Stone are the couple who travel to the resting place only to find a brand new kind of terror.

Patick Macnee is Doctor George Waggner who runs the Coloney which happens to be an entire community of werewolves. The creatures are treated different than in any other movie. they are shape shifters who can change at will and can regenerate limbs if needed.

This movie has more in jokes and references to old movies than I could possibly count. Director Joe Dante knows how to make entertaining films and this is one of his best. The ending is amazing and funny at the same time. The Blu-ray transfer is perfect and the film never looked better.

The rest of the cast includes John Carradine as a werewolf who prefers the old ways of getting food, Kevin McCarthy as a harried TV executive, Dick Miller as a book store owner who knows about werewolves, Elisabeth Brooks as a very sexy werewolf that seduces Karen's husband and makes him one of them, Dennis Dugan, Belinda Belaski, Slim Pickens, Nobel Willingham, James Mutaugh, Kenneth Tobey and Forrest Ackerman and Roger Corman in bit parts. John Sayles has a great part as a morgue attendant.

Any horror fan should have this in their collection, and a big thanks to Shout factory for finally getting this out again and in Blu-ray.