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Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
 
It was on last night....so I watched some of it. It is a really weird movie. I remember watching it in the 80's. It gave me the creeps. I liked Gregory Hines's character.

The scene in the morgue, with all the naked people laying on the tables and Albert Finney is eating a cookie while they are disecting people...is pretty freaky. I couldn't believe they showed full frontal male nudity in that movie, and it got an R rating.

The scene at the end ...where the wolves are in the apartment building...that is very creepy.

I like how they film the movie through the eyes of the wolves...at different places in the movie.
 
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
 
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Watched Wolfen (1981) which was... interesting.

Very slow moving at times but i liked the overall atmosphere and the New York settings were great (Bronx wasteland, the bridge etc.).
Itīs not your ordinary werewolf film because thereīs lots of native american mysticism here.

Albert Finney plays a laidback detective, Edward James Olmos is among the cast with some other cool fellas like Gregory Hines, Tom Noonan and D1ck OīNeill.
Diane Venora is the leading actress but i didnīt buy her love scene with Finney, totally unecessary (canīt believe that i just wrote that [Big Grin] )
And our very own Miss Universum Anne Pohtamo appears in the opening sequence!

Not a classic but good enough and i loved the finale.

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Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
 
Wolfen is kind of a horror film for people who don't ordinarily like horror films. It has a great cast, excellent atmosphere, and the politically conscious plot, along with the werewolf elements. Good film.

I agree with you that there was no chemistry to speak of for the love scene between Diane Venora and Albert Finney. She's a fine, fine actress (she played a female Hamlet for Joe Papp in NYC), who doesn't do a lot of movies. And she basically doesn't have much to do in most of them, like Michael Mann's Heat.
 
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
 
Great movie. Slow moving, but still great. I remember watching it when I was a kid. My Mother never liked us to watched "horror" movies. She said we'd have nightmares (I did not!).
 
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
 
I rate Wolfen as well I think it's a good film,Hines and Finney were excellent as usual and in all truth I didn't find it too slow going myself!

Plus like everyone has mentioned it's got a great atmosphere to it!
 


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