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What is The Howling about?
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
The Howling is a 1981 American horror film directed and edited by Joe Dante, written by John Sayles and Terence H. Winkless, and starring Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone, Belinda Balaski, Kevin McCarthy, John Carradine, Slim Pickens, and Elisabeth Brooks. Based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Gary Brandner, the film follows a news anchor who, following a traumatic encounter with a serial killer, visits a resort secretly inhabited by werewolves.
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What does the cinematography of The Howling look like?
Across 51 sampled frames, The Howling builds its coverage from medium shots (53% of the sample), with close-ups (27%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer John Hora keeps 63% of it in soft, low-key light. 69% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 67% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1980s.
What is the color palette of The Howling?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Howling (1981) are #2f312a, #0f0d0e, #51514c, #4e4a39, #d6d3cf, #2f251b — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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