Karen resolves to warn the entire world about the existence of werewolves, and begins a special worldwide broadcast announcement to the people around the world. Karen and Chris survive their attacks and burn the Colony to the ground.
However, it turns out all the people in the Colony are werewolves and can shapeshift at will, without the need of a full moon to do so. Later, as Chris arrives at the Colony, he is confronted by the horribly disfigured Eddie, who is fatally shot by Chris with a silver bullet when he attempts to transform. In response, Karen splashes Eddie in the face with corrosive acid and flees. Karen is confronted by the resurrected Eddie Quist once again, and Eddie transforms himself into a werewolf in front of her.
Chris hears this on the other end and sets off for the Colony armed with silver bullets. When she finally finds the file in the filing cabinet, she is attacked by Eddie in werewolf form, and is killed when she is bitten on the jugular vein. While on the phone with Chris, Terri looks for files on Eddie Quist. She runs to Wagner's office and places a phone call to Chris, who has been alerted about the Colony's true nature.
While investigating the next morning, Terri is attacked by a werewolf in a cabin, though she escapes after cutting the monster's hand off with an ax. While having sex in the moonlight, they undergo a frightening transformation into werewolves. Later that night, Bill meets Marsha at a campfire in the woods. Karen begins to suspect that Bill is hiding a secret far more threatening than marital infidelity. Terri and her boyfriend Chris Halloran also find out that Eddie's body disappeared from the morgue. After Bill's attack, Karen summons her friend, Terri Fisher, to the Colony, and Terri connects the resort to Eddie through a sketch he left behind. When he resists her unsubtle sexual overtures, he is attacked and scratched on the arm by a werewolf while returning to his cabin. The Colony is filled with strange characters, and one, a sultry nymphomaniac named Marsha Quist, tries to seduce Bill. George Waggner, decides to send her and her husband, Bill Neill, to the "Colony", a secluded resort in the countryside where he sends patients for treatment. The police enter and shoot Eddie, and although Karen is safe, she suffers amnesia. Eddie forces Karen to watch a video of a young woman being bound and raped, and when Karen turns around to see Eddie, she screams. In cooperation with the police, she takes part in a scheme to capture Eddie by agreeing to meet him in a sleazy porn theater.
Karen White is a Los Angeles television news anchor who is being stalked by a serial murderer named Eddie Quist. A remake was in development for Netflix, with Andy Muschietti set to direct.
A series consisting of seven sequels arose from the film's success. to hire Dante (as director) and Michael Finnell (as producer) for Gremlins.
Its financial success aided Dante's career, and prompted Warner Bros. The film won the 1980 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film while still in development, and was one of the three high-profile werewolf-themed horror films released in 1981, alongside An American Werewolf in London and Wolfen. It received generally positive reviews, with praise for the makeup special effects by Rob Bottin. The film was released on March 13, 1981, and became a moderate success, grossing $17.9 million at the box office. Based on the novel of the same name by Gary Brandner, the film follows a television newswoman sent to a remote mountain resort after a near-fatal incident with a serial killer, unaware that the resort's residents are werewolves. The Howling is a 1981 American horror film directed by Joe Dante and starring Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, and Robert Picardo.