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Dee Wallace Stone as Karen White

The Howling (1981)

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Most of the werewolves in Joe Dante’s The Howling are pretty damned respectable for their time, but things go a bit wonky at the film’s climax. To prove to the world that werewolves exist, journalist Karen White transforms live on TV into… Fizzgig from The Dark Crystal . She’s just too cute and fluffy and well groomed, like a pampered were-Yorkshire Terrier, complete with unconvincing twitching nose. It was the start of the rot for The Howling franchise…

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