The Beast Must Die (1974)

Summary: Tom is a big-game hunter who has brought some people to his home for a game of “Who dunnit?” One of them is a werewolf and he’s gonna do whatever it takes to find out whom!           Overall: I loved the ideas of this movie as it started. I like the mini-backgrounds and the lengths he was going to to catch the wolf. And then the film simply failed to move anywhere. We got no more hints other than the film picking someone they really wanted you to think as the wolf, completely ignoring the other characters. In addition, there was so little action and what they did have was so dark and grainy. I think the film has so many possibilities and our actor who played “Tom” did a great job. Kept me interested. But the film just sorta sputtered and frankly, outside of being a “big-game hunter” we got little motive or reasoning for why these people are here, why they would have all agreed to be there, and frankly, why he’s even doing this. And although he’s so positive someone is a wolf, he’s clueless as to who is it. So maybe that means, none of them could have been?           Comparison: Howling meets Ten Little Indians

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