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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Boy Who Cried Wolf!

The Beast Must Die (1974)
Director- Paul Annett
Starring- Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark

Eight guests are invited to a rich game hunter's estate only to be told they are suspected of lycanthropy. The hunter, Tom (Lockhart), must use his wits, his superior 1970's technology and his shiny leather clothes to find who is wolfing out.

Despite the superfly dress of Tom, this was a pretty good movie. There was no attempt at utilizing special effects to show a werewolf metamorphosis, just real wolves. There were a few suspenseful moments, and the action scenes ain't half bad. A game comes with the movie so that the watcher can become involved and try to gues who it is while the movie is playing (I did not have the game).

The movie seemed to reveal more about Tom's growing madness than about who was the werewolf up until the end.

Rating: 3/5 Bonedaddies.

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