The Howling

Nail biting suspense as opposed to ketchup splattered gore makes this film successfully chilling.

From the very first scene, The Howling plays around with the notion of vulnerability as a role-playing exercise, a pseudo-sex game.

Today it doesn't bear the same weight of expectation, but it is in places endearingly ludicrous and in others unexpectedly brilliant.

...director Joe Dante is a rabid horror fan and pays tribute at every opportunity to any number of well-known and obscure classics.