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Wolfen
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creature-feature

Wolfen

1981 · R · 1h 55m

They can hear a cloud pass overhead, the rhythm of your blood. They can track you by yesterday's shadow. They can tear the scream from your throat.

A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister connection between the crimes and an old legend.

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Release

In theaters
July 24, 1981

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Genres

mysteryhorrorthriller

Tags

Subgenre

creature-featurewerewolfpolice-proceduralsupernatural

Tone

slow-burndread

Setting

urban
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Details

Budget$17M
Box office$10.6M

Directed by

Michael Wadleigh

Written by

Michael Wadleigh, David Eyre

Cinematography

Fredric Abeles, Gerry Fisher

Music

James Horner

Starring

Albert Finney as Dewey Wilson · Diane Venora as Rebecca Neff · Edward James Olmos as Eddie Holt · Gregory Hines as Whittington · Tom Noonan as Ferguson · Dick O'Neill as Warren · Dehl Berti as Old Indian · Peter Michael Goetz as Ross

Production

King-Hitzig Productions, Orion Pictures

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