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Eight people are invited to an island estate for the weekend. One of them is a werewolf. Can you guess which one?Eight people are invited to an island estate for the weekend. One of them is a werewolf. Can you guess which one?Eight people are invited to an island estate for the weekend. One of them is a werewolf. Can you guess which one?
Sam Mansary
- Butler
- (as Sam Mansaray)
Carl Bohen
- 1st Hunter
- (as Carl Bohun)
Valentine Dyall
- Narrator of the Werewolf Break
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Dennis Plenty
- Hunter
- (uncredited)
Annie Ross
- Caroline Newcliffe
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Michael Winder
- Paul Annett(uncredited)
- James Blish(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaDespite writer / director Paul Annett's objections, producer Milton Subotsky (who hated this movie) insisted on the werewolf break gimmick where the viewer was invited to guess who the werewolf is.
- GoofsWhen the alarm shows that the werewolf has left the estate and is prowling in the woods, Tom has his surveillance expert help him track the beast. He could have taken a few seconds to look in on all the guests via the spy cameras to see which one was missing from their room and so discover the werewolf's identity, but it doesn't seem to occur to him.
- Quotes
Narrator of the Werewolf Break: This film is a detective story - in which you are the detective. The question is not "Who is the murderer?", but "Who is the werewolf?" After all the clues have been shown, you will get a chance to give your answer. Watch for The Werewolf Break.
- Crazy credits[At the beginning of the film, with narration] This film is a detective story--in which you are the detective The question is not "Who is the murderer?"--But "Who is the werewolf?" After all the clues have been shown--You will get a chance to give your answer. (Said but not written on screen, directly after above quote: Watch for the werewolf break).
- Alternate versionsAlso released as "Black Werewolf" without the werewolf break.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Gentle Touch: Melody (1980)
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The Beast Must Die was a partly unusual werewolf movie
Continuing to review werewolf movies in chronological order, we're now at 1974 with The Beast Must Die. A rich man invites his friends over to his home on an island to determine which one of them is the werewolf. I'll stop there and just say while there are some moments that seem illogical, I was mostly entertained through and through. And that "werewolf break" in which the narrator gives us 30 seconds to guess as stills of the characters pass by and a printed clock appears on screen is pure genius though I didn't guess right. Nice performances by lead Calvin Lockhart as well as supporting ones from Charles Gray, Michael Gambon, and horror veteran Peter Cushing, among others. So on that note, The Beast Must Die is worth a look.
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- Also known as
- Black Werewolf
- Filming locations
- Shepperton Studios, Studios Road, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK(studio: made at Shepperton Studios, Middx. England.)
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