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Wolfen

  • Film
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Time Out says

School-leavers whose ambitions lean towards criminal pathology will pick up useful tips on wielding the scalpel and the white sheet in this foray into the bleakly explicit world of the contemporary shocker: a werewolf movie for an ecology-conscious age. The last-reel process whereby the lurking terror breaks cover and is transformed into a 'sympathetic' but unconquerable force is smoothly convincing: we are a long way here from simply feeling a bit sorry for King Kong. The setting is two New Yorks: that of the multinational, politically-amoral corporations, and that of the slum wastelands, both with the same landlords. The camera's vision is a fresh one, and though the wolf's eye view sequences threaten at first to become a nuisance, they are soon justified as a dramatic device, and ultimately as essential to the plot.
Written by JC

Release Details

  • Duration:115 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Michael Wadleigh
  • Screenwriter:David Eyre, Michael Wadleigh
  • Cast:
    • Albert Finney
    • Diane Venora
    • Edward James Olmos
    • Gregory Hines
    • Tom Noonan
    • Dick O'Neill
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