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Question for moviegoers: Is it worse to be killed by a werewolf or merely to be bitten by one? Answer, as anyone will tell you who has seen the summer's newest horror film, An American Werewolf in London: avoid both. The American college student who is hacked to death by one of the beasts is thereafter seen wandering around in various states of stomach-churning decomposition. But his companion, who survives the attack, has it just as bad. Every time there is a full moon, he becomes a werewolf himself, his hands turning into claws and his teeth...
...they were: makeup artists like Werewolf's Rick Baker are authentic stars of many new movies. In recent months Hollywood's new wizards of goo and gadgetry have shown their skills in such diverse films as Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Elephant Man, Raging Bull, Altered States, The Incredible Shrinking Woman and that howler, The Howling. "There have been half a dozen films in which makeup was vital," says Dick Smith, 59, who is dean of the trade. "The same certainly cannot be said for costuming, sound or design...
...Thousands of these little bags were glued to the actors' faces, which were then covered with masks of false skin. At the proper moment, the sacs were inflated, and the faces seemed to grow as big as beach balls-about the size, that is, of the average movie werewolf's face. Bottin also devised fanglike teeth for his werewolves, rubber incisors that stretched when the actors pressed little triggers with their tongues...
...most elaborate changes require a lifelike dummy, however. In American Werewolf, Baker made a dummy of Actor David Naughton, then put a new device called a shape shifter, operated by pistons or cables, inside it. When the full moon rose over the horizon-werewolf time-Baker turned on the shape shifter, stretching the skin and turning a perfectly harmless dummy into the meanest creature to hit England since Grendel...
...Howling, a good-looking, modern-day werewolf picture, boasts not only the writer's pedigree but a young lifetime of B-movie lore devoured and disgorged by Director Joe Dante, with whom Sayles worked three years ago on an engaging Jaws rip-off called Piranha. Their new film drops latent or blatant references to a dozen low-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...