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New York City | Based On Novel Or Book
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Best Writing | 1982
Best Horror Film | 1982
Best Actor | 1982 | Albert
Best Director | 1982
1982
Budget 17,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 10,626,725 USD
Composer Craig Safan wrote an original score for this film and was replaced at the last minute by future Academy Award winner James Horner, who had only 12 days to write and record his score.
Dustin Hoffman seriously wanted to play the role of Dewey Wilson, but was refused the part by director Michael Wadleigh who really wanted to work with Albert Finney, who was his favorite actor. It was the only time in his career that Hoffman was rejected for a part.
The film was the first movie to use a thermographic visual photographic look to represent the point-of-view of a character, in this case, the wolfen. The type of effect shot has been used in a number of movies to show the POV of a character, usually villainous, like a beast. One notable example of the popularizing of this kind of visual effects perspective is its use in the "Predator" films.
First filmed adaptation of a Whitley Strieber novel. Others that would follow would be "The Hunger (1983)" a couple of years after then later "Communion (1989)."
Director Michael Wadleigh's cut of the film that he handed to the studio in Febuary 1980 before his removal from the film in post-production, was over four and a half hours.
"Edddie Holt: It's not wolves, it's Wolfen. For 20,000 years Wilson- ten times your fucking Christian era- the 'skins and wolves, the great hunting nations, lived together, nature in balance. Then the slaughter came."
"Dewey Wilson: [Ending voiceover] In arrogance man knows nothing of what exists. There exists on this earth such as we dare not imagine; life as certain as our death, life that will prey on us as surely as we prey on this earth."
