The Howling (film)

"[on TV] It is, after all, what we are. Repression. Repression is the father of neurosis, of self-hatred. Now, stress results when we fight against our impulses. We've all heard people talk about "animal magnetism", about the "natural man" and the "noble savage". As if we had lost something valuable in our long evolution into civilized human beings—and there’s a good reason for this. Man is a combination of the learned and the instinctual, of the sophisticated and the primitive. We should never try to deny the beast, the animal, within us - only to channel these energies in a positive direction."

"All of us have a great untapped potential - a potential for living. What we do with that potential, with that life, depends as much on our attitudes toward our physical desires as it does on the social programming of our minds. The struggle between mind and body is not a necessary one. It produces anger, frustration, the strain of modern-day living in a world that's moving too quickly toward its own annihilation. Stress results when we fight against our impulses, when we attempt to destroy the natural man or woman within us. Repression is the father of neurosis, of self-hatred."

"[about his occult bookstore] We get 'em all: sun-worshippers, moon-worshippers, Satanists. The Manson family used to hang around and shoplift. Bunch of deadbeats!"

"[watching Karen transforming on TV] Oh, boy!"

"[pulling the bullet from his fractured skull out of the hole it left in his head] You said on the phone that you wanted to get to know me. Well, here I am, Karen. Look at me. [pulls out a piece of his brain] I want to give you a piece of my mind. I trusted you, Karen. You can trust me now."

"She didn't feel a thing, Karen. None of them do. They're not...real, the people here. They're...they're dead. They can never be like me. But you're different, Karen. I watch you on TV. And I know how good I can make you feel. I'm gonna light up your whole body, Karen."

"We have to warn people, Chris. We have to make them believe."

"Good evening. From the day we're born, there is a battle we must fight, a struggle between what is kind and peaceful in our natures, and what is cruel and violent. That choice is our birthright as human beings, and the real gift that differentiates us from the animals. It is as natural to us as the air we breathe. All of us take it for granted. But now, for some of us, that choice has been taken away. A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They're neither people nor animal, but something in between. They're monstrous mutations with violent natures that must be satisfied. I know what you're thinking, because I've been where you are... But I have proof, and tonight I'm going to show you something... to make you believe! [she howls and starts to transform]"

"Erle Kenton: You can't tame what's meant to be wild, Doc. It just ain't natural."

"Fred Francis: [on the phone after Karen freezes during a newscast] Who knows? Maybe she's pregnant. Listen, get in touch with that Fujiama, Fujimoto, or whatever the hell her name is and get her ready for the 11:00 report."

"Imagine your worst fear a reality."

"Beyond anything human."

"When the howling starts... the horror begins!"

"They're out there - and you're in the middle of your worst nightmare..."

"All your nightmares are about to be transformed into one single inescapable fear."

"[from TV spot] What she has witnessed, she cannot escape. What he has become, he cannot control. And what you experience, no one will believe - until they come face to face with the inhuman fear that is The Howling."

"Dee Wallace Stone - Karen White"

"Patrick Macnee - Dr. George Waggner"

"Dennis Dugan - Chris Dugan"

"Belinda Balaski - Terry Fisher"

"Christopher Stone - R. William Neill"

"Kevin McCarthy - Fred Francis"

"John Carradine - Erle Kenton"

"Slim Pickens - Sam Newfield"

"Robert Picardo - Eddie Quist"

"Dick Miller - Walter Paisley"

"Elisabeth Brooks - Marsha Quist"