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Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.
View MoreJust intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
View MoreWhen a couple of people are killed in the woods by what appears to be a very large animal a retired hunter by the name of "John Wetherby" (Peter Graves) is asked by the local sheriff, "Vernon Bell" (Philip Carey) to lend his expertise. What he discovers is that the large wolf tracks start off with 4 footprints and then mysteriously dwindle to 2 footprints and then disappear. Additionally, the tracking dogs lose the scent at this point as well. Feeling quite baffled John goes to visit an extreme hunting guide named "Byron Douglas" (Clint Walker) to ask for his help. Surprisingly, Byron refuses even though they are very good friends. Meanwhile, the killings continue and soon there is talk of a werewolf running around which terrorizes the entire town. Now, rather than give away anymore of the story and risk ruining the film for those who haven't seen it, I will just say that this was a fair made-for-television production which manages to keep the mystery and suspense going throughout most of the movie. The acting was decent with Peter Graves probably giving the best performance of all. Again, while it's certainly not a blockbuster by any means it's decent enough and I rate it as average.
View MoreThis 1974 mystery thriller sets it's stall out very early on with a reasonably nerve-jangling beginning as a stranded motorist is murdered in a grisly manner on a mist-shrouded,isolated road by someone or something lurking in woods of rural Los Angeles.The plot quickly develops as the baffled police turn to an ex-game hunter (Peter Graves) to assist them with the search of an "animal", who leaves both four-legged and two-legged tracks (never seen by the viewer, by the way, and indicative of the budget restrictions that prevail in this film). One ex-game-hunter goes to an old friend who is still plying his trade as a hunter (Clint Walker) but he oddly backs off and refuses to help anybody track down the killer.At just over 75 minutes running time, the whole thing virtuously floes at a brisk pace, but saying that the early part of the film is rather repetitious in portraying the murders. Furthermore, some sequences are too short and/or choppily edited so the overall smoothness of what is being viewed is compromised.Budget restrictions place a heavy emphasis on mystery and suspense, rather than horror and gore, and with Dan Curtis (of Night Stalker fame) at the production/directorial helm, the whole thing was potentially in safe hands. Nevertheless, there is only decent nail-biting scene in the rest of the film: at the home of the leading character's girlfriend's house where the murderer tries to strike.The script also spends an inordinate amount of time building and playing on the cold-hearted, egocentric and humourless characterisation of Clint Walker's role: whilst Walker carries this off very effectively it becomes rather mind-numbing and tiresome as the film shifts towards its conclusion, even within the confines of the aforementioned running time. What this does is imply considerable guilt on the part of this character and puts all the film's "eggs in one basket." When the conclusion comes it comes with twists that are perfectly explicable in terms of what the viewer has seem beforehand, if not entirely satisfactory.Overall the performances of Peter Graves and Jo-Ann Pflug are merely adequate, but Walker merits more praise for his consistently poker-face portrayal of his character. The film itself carries an element of intrigue that makes it worth watching but many aspects of the script don't translate particularly well to the screen, so it's lasting impact is unfortunately rather Luke-warm.
View MoreActing: mostly OK (Graves and Pflug are decent)Camera-work: Pedestrian - passable for TV Plot: Predictable but interestingly carried outDirecting and editing: Mediocre at best.Peter Graves makes an unconvincing action star in this horror film which seems to be mostly lacking in horror. He is ably supported by Jo Ann Pflug and somewhat over-supported by Clint Walker. Apparently the southern USA was the setting of a slew of wolf, wolfman, werewolf and lycanthrope flicks in the 1970s (somehow I missed all of them until recently), mostly starring out-of-work TV actors. Among these, Scream of the Wolf is unique for a couple of reasons: First, its unusual title.Second, it's somewhat unique (and interesting) plot.Graves is an older local dude (it's never really clear what he does or did), Pflug is his love interest, and Walker is a hunting buddy with somewhat extreme Hemingwayian view of life and society. People start dying, and a wolf - or something like a wolf, appears to be the culprit. Soon, it becomes apparent that there is a pattern to killings, and it increasingly centers on Graves.This is a low budget, intelligently plotted and scripted film. The death scenes are the usual genre cop-outs: Point of view scenes shot from the perspective of the attacker. With just a little more thoughtful camera-work and editing, it could have been a good film.
View More++Major Spoilers++ Former big game hunter and now deranged lunatic Byron Douglas, Clint Walker, comes up with some far-out ideas about life death and the human condition as well as how to bring a little life and excitement into the lives of the people in town by savagely murdering them and at the same time making it look like some kind of werewolf did it.Even though the movie tries to be suspenseful and keeps you guessing to who the killer is as soon as you see Douglas and how crazed and unstable Douglas is. Just by listening to his off the wall philosophy by talking about how one is most alive just when he's at he moment of death. This makes you almost look over his shoulder to see if you can catch a glimpse of the men in white with stun guns and butterfly nets ready to grab and restrain Douglas in a padded room at the local loony bin. You watch the movie hoping that whats on the screen is not really happening. In that that those making the film are just trying to keep you off the track by making you think that Douglas is the killer when the real killer is really someone else in the cast that you don't suspect. Still you just can't convince yourself that there's anyone more certain to be the killer then Douglas is and you end up being right.Were told that Douglas was attacked by some super wolf some time back in Canada which almost killed him and left him in the condition that he's in now. Trying to explain his mental and emotional state and at the same time throws off suspicion about him being the killer but even that falls apart at the end of the movie.The only way I could follow the story is by realizing that Douglas is crazy, which wasn't hard to do, so whatever he said and did in the movie made sense only to himself not to anyone else. The end of the film ripped off the movie "The Most Dangerous Game" by Douglas pitting friend and former hunting buddy now writer Peter Graves, John Wetherby, against himself in a life and death struggle to see who's fit and strong enough to survive. Even then Douglas cheated by having a vicious wolf as a partner and leaving Wetherby with a rifle with no bullets in it.Wetherby had to run for some distance to find a box in the woods with only two slugs that Douglas left for him. When it came to the hand to hand combat that Douglas craved for Wetherby pulled out a gun that he secretly had on him a blew Douglas away. Since Douglas murdered six people there was no point for all that ridicules game playing with him. A major flaw in the movie was why the police never thought of arresting Douglas even though he was the most evident and conspicuous suspect in town. It was nothing but a waste of time trying to figure out Douglas' weird philosophy and sermonizing during the movie because it was just that, weird.
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