What is The Howling/The Wolf Man 1941 about?

THE HOWLING, 1981, Rialto Pictures, 91 min. Dir. Joe Dante. TV anchorwoman Dee Wallace, traumatized after acting as bait for a Hollywood serial killer’s bloody demise, takes a sojourn to an Esalen-type retreat - only to find the entire New Age community is made up of werewolves! THE WOLF MAN, 1941, Universal, 70 min. Dir. George Waggner. Lon Chaney Jr. achieves cinematic immortality in the title role, one of Universal’s great movie monsters. Bitten by a werewolf (Bela Lugosi) while visiting a gypsy camp, Larry Talbot (Chaney) is cursed to become a hairy beast “when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.” Nerdist Writers Panel between films with Joe Dante and others, moderated by Ben Blacker .

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What is The Howling/The Wolf Man 1941 about?: THE HOWLING, 1981, Rialto Pictures, 91 min. Dir. Joe Dante. TV anchorwoman Dee Wallace, traumatized after acting as bait for a Hollywood serial killer’s bloody demise, takes a sojourn to an Esalen-type retreat - only to find the entire New Age community is made up of werewolves! THE WOLF MAN, 1941, Universal, 70 min. Dir. George Waggner. Lon Chaney Jr. achieves cinematic immortality in the title role, one of Universal’s great movie monsters. Bitten by a werewolf (Bela Lugosi) while visiting a gypsy camp, Larry Talbot (Chaney) is cursed to become a hairy beast “when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.” Nerdist Writers Panel between films with Joe Dante and others, moderated by Ben Blacker .