The Howling: 1980
AVCO Embassy Pictures / International Film Investors / Wescom Productions
Color 91(90) min.

Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan

Plot: News anchor Karen (Wallace) is used as a decoy to catch a psychopath. It is later found that the psychopath's past is tainted with lycanthropy. Following up on the story, it leads them to the Colony, a remote spa that's sole population is a coven of werewolves. She escapes after burning the Colony (and its occupants). Doing her first newscast since her return, she transforms into a werewolf.