Word: filmland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget horror movies; characters are named after some of the more mediocre talents ever to win a Directors Guild card (Lew Landers, Roy William Neill, Erle C. Kenton); Roger Corman, godfather to many young directors, makes a cameo appearance, as do Forrest Ackerman, editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, and Sayles himself. Trouble is The Howling is too insistent on parading its enshocklopedic knowledge to raise Hackle One on any moviegoer's neck. Rob Bottin's special makeup effects may deserve extended study, but the movie shouldn't stop dead in its lycanthropic tracks while...