Endless Ends

The Beast Must Die (1974).

I found this five or six years back and it's become part of my werewolf rotation.

It's sort of murder mystery werewolf horror. Think golden-age murder mystery weekend meets werewolf amidst a setting of seventies funk.

Yep. You read that correctly. :p

To top it off, Peter Cushing has a minor role as one of the guests, an archaeologist with a sideline in loup-garou and some curious theories on the disease transmission and likely murky end.

The owner of the isolated manse is . . . wait for it . . . a big game hunter who has selected his guests based on their lycanthropic possibilities.

*wiggles eyebrows*

The seventies were a weird time for movies.

Well, really, for so many things. 🤣
Doesn’t this movie have a “werewolf break” for the audience to guess who the werewolf is? Or was that something else?
 
I watched it this morning and I gotta say... he was hot. Last time I saw him was when I was a kid and my opinion was that he was old. My opinion has changed. 😂
I mean, I won't disagree. I remember seeing him in something as a child and finding his brand of machismo (or whether it is) kinda repellent.

But, in this, eh, he has a certain . . . something. Not saying he'd be my first choice by any means, but I can see the appeal.
 
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