The Howling-Some Monsters Just Want to Join The Burbs

Take one future movie Mom (Dee Wallace who will play Elliot's maternal unit in ET), playing Karen White, a TV news anchor investigating a serial killer case.  Her encounter with the killer leaves her traumatized, which begins to affect both her work and her relationship with her husband.  She consults with a shrink who was advising on the killer case, Dr. George Waggner (Patrick McNee), who advises a stay for her and her husband to relax, a place called The Colony.  She goes and begins mixing with the folksy, eccentric folks there, but quickly begins to get a vibe that there is more to this place than meets the eye.

See,  there be werewolves out.  Some believe that they can temper their wild natures and coexist with humans in the modern world.  Some are of the opinion, why bother? 

And there it is, a modern werewolf tale.  Not limited to the full moon, these shapeshifters can shift whenever they wish.  They have the silver bullet and fire weaknesses, but when in human guise, you can't tell who they are and that they want to eat your face.

The wild vs the civilized.  A rational person realizes and is at peace with both.  We were savage before we were civilized and one only has to go to the news to see that the savage, the wild, lives with us still, bursting out in all sorts of unhealthy ways.

This film is honest about that.

A werewolf classic.  Don't know why it took me so long to see it.

PS.  The werewolf transformation sequences in here are good, especially considering the era.  Though the ones to be seen in An American Werewolf in London as well as Michael Jackson's Thriller are better.  This film is still the gods.