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It won a Saturn Award in 1980. How is that possible?

posted 9 years ago by adrianizerfacebook
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In 1980 it was still in production but somehow it was awarded with Saturn for Best Horror Film. How is that actually possible?

[–] Eponymous-too 9 years ago

It won in 1981, not 1980.

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[–] adrianizerfacebook 9 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Howling_(film)

[–] Dustbowler 9 years ago

It's just a typo.

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[–] tjivey4 (1) 2 months ago

American Werewolf in London won the Saturn for horror in 1981. The Howling was completed in 1980, so it was eligible for the award. The movie was in the can, but wasn't released nationally in theaters until 1981.

[–] BKB (9916) 2 months ago

The HOWLING felt more like what a Werewolf movie is supposed to look like, very grim and the Werewolves looked like actual monsters the stuff of nightmares while American Werewolf in London gets the credit because of the humor balancing it out, but the FX while very good, made the Werewolf transformation made it look more like an "Animal" than Werewolf if that makes sense?? It looked like a big badger. The Werewolves in The HOWLING would've beat the fuck out of that thing

[–] Jeepster (1145) 2 months ago

Uh..NO! You’re wrong. “American Werewolf in London” was the better transformation and THAT werewolf was a TRUE monster. The werewolves in “The Howling” still had their human intellect in their werewolf forms. Not so with the one in “AWIL”. So he was a “true” werewolf, animalistic with nothing of his human self. He was HUGE too. You run into him you’re deader than dead vs those werewolves. I’d rather run into them than David’s werewolf.

Oh and he would’ve made mincemeat out of them if they had fought as you suggested. He would’ve been quicker and harder to grasp as they were bipedal. He definitely would’ve out maneuvered them.