Bonus: The Howling (w/ Jeremy Phelps)
WARNING!! PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED!
What’s up, dudes? We all know what fear is… but tonight fear has fur, silver bullets, and a live-TV transformation nobody at home believes. We’re talking Joe Dante’s 1981 werewolf classic “The Howling”! I’ve got Jeremy Phelps the Alamo City Santa with me!
News anchor Karen White walks into a sting for a killer named Eddie Quist and walks out with amnesia and a therapist who thinks a countryside retreat called the Colony is medicine. It is not medicine. It is a werewolf timeshare. Dee Wallace is Karen, Robert Picardo is the transformation showcase, Elisabeth Brooks is Marsha, Patrick Macnee is Doc, and Rob Bottin builds the air-bladder nightmare after Rick Baker left for the other werewolf movie that same year. John Sayles rewrote Gary Brandner’s novel into a satire, Pino Donaggio scored it, and the thing opened March 13, 1981, then howled all the way toward Dante getting the keys to Gremlins. Character names are classic horror directors hiding in plain sight, and the Colony burns so Karen can warn the world on television while the audience laughs it off as special effects.
Silver bullets? Check. Smiley-face calling cards? Yep. A werewolf ordering a rare hamburger at the bar? That’s the tag, dudes! So pack a silver round, skip the wellness retreat, and howl into this episode on “The Howling”!
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