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Wolfen Director: Michael Wadleigh Cast: Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos, Gregory Hines

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  • DVD Release Date: 08/13/2002
  • Original Release: 1981
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 5,197

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Closed Caption; Interactive Menus; Cast/director film highlights; Theatrical trailers; Scene access; Languages: English & Français ; Subtitles: English, Français, Español, Português, Chinese, Bahasa, Thai & Korean

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Side #1 --
1. Urban Renewed [2:38]
2. Route Change (Credits) [3:10]
3. Slaughter in the Park [5:03]
4. Wilson on the Case [4:55]
5. Whittington Picks the Pieces [3:31]
6. What We Haven't Got [3:17]
7. Victim Profile [2:23]
8. Paging Rebecca Neff [2:55]
9. An Execution [2:30]
10. Death Among the Ruins [2:37]
11. Theories and Body Parts [3:25]
12. Ain't Human [2:23]
13. A Church in the South Bronx [6:47]
14. Prowling Into Manhattan [4:30]
15. Wolves and Indians [3:24]
16. High With Eddie Holt [3:24]
17. Survival of the Shiftiest? [4:37]
18. All in Eddie's Head [4:11]
19. Ferguson Cries Wolf [4:50]
20. Vigil Outside Rebecca's [4:00]
21. Intimacy Observed [2:06]
22. Can't Eat Just One [2:07]
23. Surveillance [7:36]
24. Fangs of Death [4:14]
25. Wolfen Lore [4:10]
26. Protecting Their Turf [3:52]
27. Surrounded on Wall Street [2:07]
28. Warren's End [1:57]
29. Surrounded in Vanderveer's Office [3:13]
30. Demolition [2:10]
31. "Such as We Dare Not Imagine" [1:07]
32. End Credits [4:34]

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Editorial Reviews

Wolfen, a frightening horror movie based upon a novel by Whitley Strieber, is an absorbing update on the werewolf legend. Detective Dewey Wilson (Albert Finney) is assigned to investigate the strange murder of a millionaire and his wife in a downtown park. Wilson and his friend, city coroner Whittington (Gregory Hines), aided by criminal psychologist Rebecca Neff (Diane Venora) connect the killing to those of several others, primarily winos, drug addicts and derelicts, all of whom seem to have been mutilated by wild animals. Their search leads them to a group of Native Americans led by Edward James Olmos who tell them of a legend of a superior species that once roamed the area, but now are living and hunting in the slums of New York. The film is engrossing, frightening and intelligent, with sensational special effects. Director Michael Wadleigh uses these effects to great advantage, frequently showing the movements of the characters through the eyes of the "Wolfen." This film is also the screen debut of Gregory Hines. Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide

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Great twist on an old themeby Anonymous

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November 20, 2004: A terrific re working of the werewolf idea with bits of the mystical separating it from the typical horror movie. Finney, Hines and especiallly Olmos are terrific in their roles. Very interesting photography that may seem at little artsy but it is very useful is telling this multilayered story of the rape of nature and the natural order of the earth in the name of technology and consumerism and the 'needs of modern man'. It is hard to absorb all of the subtexts in one viewing. Definitely more social commentary than horror movie.

Go with other ones first.by Anonymous

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October 23, 2004: This came out in 1981 which was the year for werewolf movies. But it still comes nowhere close to its fellow wolf movies of the same year like The Howling and American Werewolf in London. They try to make it seem too intelligent which is fine but they went overboard. They actually should of done a little less thinking and a little more horror. that could have made it a good movie.