Wolfen (Film)
- Albert Finney: Dewey Wilson
- Diane Venora: Rebecca Neff
- Edward James Olmos: Eddie Holt
- Gregory Hines: Whittington
- Tom Noonan: Ferguson
- Dick O'Neill: Warren
- James Tolkan: Baldy
Wolfen is an American horror film directed by Michael Wadleigh 's 1981, based on the novel Wolf brood ( Original title: The Wolfen ) by Whitley Strieber is based.
Action
In New York's Battery Park cruelly battered corpses of estate agent Christopher van der Veer, his wife and a bodyguard be found. The type of mutilation to the police on puzzles, motive and perpetrators initially remain completely in the dark.
It is found at the crime scene wolf hair, but which are not attributable to any other known species. The investigation leads Detective Wilson and to transform the psychologist Rebecca Neff to a group of Indians who supposedly have the ability through spiritual rites in animal form. They speak of the wolf cult, the incarnation of Indian spirits who try to defend the land of the ancestors against its destruction along the lines of animals.
After another mysterious deaths, the search focused on the ruins and rubble of the South Bronx. Finally, it comes in the penthouse of van der Veer, who had planned large-scale new construction projects in the slum, a showdown with a pack of wolves living there that sets itself against the demolition of their last habitats and hunting grounds to fight back. Wilson destroyed demonstratively miniature models of the planned building complexes, to which the Mended predators eventually withdraw.
Background
Although the horror film flopped at the box office, but developed later in the TV and video on to a successful tip. The camera pans from the point of view of the wolves were with Steadicam or thermal imaging cameras ( here called "Alien Vision" ) rotated. Film critic Kieren Hughes considers it obvious that in 1988 turned action movie Predator was influenced by this film.
Tom Waits has a cameo as a drunken bar owner in this film.
Reviews
" [ ... ] One of the smartest and most sophisticated horror movies of the early 80s, however, proved at the box office as a financial disaster [ ... ] A pessimistic provoking vision of horror "
" Ecological ' horror film that largely dispenses with superficial effects. Excellent photographs and fascinating in the visually alienated sequences, the well-played directorial debut of a former cutter but has some dramatic weaknesses and is not always consistent enough in its history. "