
Friday the 13th(1980)
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.


“Imagine your worst fear a reality.”
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.

Dee Wallace
Karen White

Patrick Macnee
Dr. George Waggner

Dennis Dugan
Chris

Christopher Stone
R. William 'Bill' Neill

Belinda Balaski
Terry Fisher

Kevin McCarthy
Fred Francis

John Carradine
Erle Kenton

Slim Pickens
Sam Newfield
Elisabeth Brooks
Marsha Quist

Robert Picardo
Eddie Quist
The Howling is a horror film released in 1981 exploring themes of adultery, based on novel or book, shapeshifting, secret society, woods, murder. Directed by Joe Dante, it stars Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan. After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
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