David and Jack are hiking across the Welsh moors as a part of a vacation in England. Stopping at a bar at night, they are warned to stay inside, ignoring the locals they head out anyway. Soon after, they are attacked by a "wild dog." Jack is killed, and David is badly injured. This is just the beginning for David, who will end up wishing he hadn't survived.

This movie is probably one of the major defining moments in the werewolf genre. Besides some new twists to an old formula, it has the best transformation effects of any movie out there, even today. Rick Baker's ideas and designs hold true to what I think a transformation should be.

David wakes up in the hospital a week later, and healing rather quickly for someone who's been mauled. With nowhere to go, a kind nurse named Alex lets him stay at her place while he finishes recuperating. A budding romance starts between David and Alex, and everything is going well. That is until David starts waking up naked in strange places like the zoo. Well, he could pass that off as a lot of things, if it weren't for the blood. That's when he starts to realize it wasn't a wild dog that attacked him.

The themes in this movie, while similar to others before it, are set apart by the comedy and outstanding effects. The comedy mostly comes from the mutilated corpses of the werewolf victims. The people are generally unhappy, and don't mind letting David know how they feel about him. I just find the thought of a desiccated corpse telling you to kill yourself extremely funny.

Most people would call The Howling the better movie, but I think this film moves at a better pace. It doesn't get slow at any time, which seems to be a problem with a lot of wolf movies for some reason. Really, the victims coming back are not central to the storyline, it could have been done a number of other ways. But I'm glad it was done.

The fact that John Landis {Animal House} decided to go this route just shows the extra care taken to make this movie original. While not gory in a way traditional werewolf movies are, the victims showing up to bother David are really messy.. There is some nudity, but nothing out of the ordinary. If you haven't seen this movie yet, it is definitely a movie you do not want to rent. You will realize you wasted that rental money when you should have been using it to buy instead.

8 out of 10 corpses watching porno