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The Beast Must Die

The Beast Must Die

One of these eight people will turn into a werewolf. Can you guess who it is when we stop the film for the WEREWOLF BREAK? See it ... solve it ... but don't tell!
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Overview:

Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf.
Released: 1974-04-01
Duration: 01:33:00
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Keywords: Manhunt, Creature Feature, Werewolf, ...
Director: Paul Annett
Writer: Michael Winder, James Blish
Cast: Peter Cushing, Calvin Lockhart, Anton Diffring, ...
Director: Paul Annett
Writer: Michael Winder James Blish
Cast: Peter Cushing Calvin Lockhart Anton Diffring Marlene Clark Ciaran Madden Michael Gambon Charles Gray Tom Chadbon Sam Mansary Andrew Lodge Carl Bohen Eric Carte
Genre: Horror Mystery
Keywords: Manhunt Creature Feature Werewolf Obession Monster Female Werewolf Based On Short Story Suicide Silver Bullet Exploding Helicopter Independent Film Corpse Voyeur Cannibalism Lycanthropy Mercy Killing Transformation Paranoia Axe Bow And Arrow Pitchfork Electric Shock Machine Gun Telescopic Rifle Hatchet Euthanizing A Dog Werewolf Curse Killed By A Werewolf Suicide Of Protagonist Suicide By Gunshot Ripping Off Clothes Gore Black Protagonist Voyeurism Undressing Eavesdropping
Description

Millionaire Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart) invites a group of people to spend some time in his rural English mansion, along with his wife Caroline (Marlene Clark) where he reveals that one of them is a werewolf and therefore must be killed. The group is composed of disgraced diplomat Arthur Bennington (Charles Gray); Jan and Davina Gilmore (Michael Gambon and Ciaran Madden), a pianist and his ex-student, now his wife; Paul Foote (Tom Chadbon), an artist recently released from prison; and Professor Lundgren (Peter Cushing), an archaeologist and a lycanthropy enthusiast.

They all stay in the mansion where they are submitted to various tests to detect whether they might be a werewolf. The entire house is under surveillance by CCTV cameras, as well as motion sensors in the grounds around the mansion set up and overseen by Tom's associate Pavel (Anton Diffring), who does not believe in werewolves.

The only way to determine the identity of the werewolf is for a certain combination of elements to occur all at once, including a full moon and the presence of wolfsbane pollen in the air. When this fails to produce any lycanthropic reactions, Tom makes each of the potential werewolves grab silver objects to provoke allergic reactions, but this too proves unsuccessful. Later that same night, Pavel is killed by the werewolf, which makes Tom even more obsessive in his hunt, to his wife's increasing annoyance. Tom gradually focuses his suspicions on Paul Foote, who was reportedly arrested after eating human flesh. Foote denies being the werewolf as the creature continues killing, with the helicopter pilot, diplomat Arthur Bennington, and Caroline's dog all falling victim.

Tom subjects the remaining group to one final test: placing a silver bullet in their mouth. As Caroline submits to the test, her hairy, clawed hand is shown before she immediately transforms into the werewolf. She (fully transformed) attacks Tom, and he kills her by shooting her with a silver bullet, leaving him very distraught and confused because Caroline was alongside him when the werewolf killed her dog. Prof. Lundgren deduces that Caroline must have contracted the werewolf disease while taking care of her dog's wounds due to an open cut on her hand she sustained from a broken wineglass at dinner. Tom becomes enraged, convinced that Foote is the werewolf. When he attempts to confront him, however, he finds that Foote has also been killed. To avenge his wife, he enters the woods surrounding the mansion to hunt the werewolf. He finds the beast and finally shoots and kills it. Once dead, the werewolf reverts to its human form, and it is revealed to be Jan, the pianist.

Tom returns to Prof. Lundgren and Davina, and he realizes that he was bitten by the werewolf during the scuffle, thus condemning him to inherit the creature's curse. Not wanting to be a monster, Tom locks himself in the mansion and shoots himself in the head with a silver bullet, ending the werewolf's bloodline. 

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