Chaney Jr. and lock up the silverware, it was watchable! *

The story is pretty good, for a horror movie. A television reporter, name of Karen, receives threatening phone calls from a local psychopath named Eddie. As the movie opens, she’s walk- ing the streets as bait, carrying a remote mike to help the police catch him. She finds him all right, and gets raped in the process. Hermemory of the event is blocked by her subconscious, though, and the memories she can’t remember are ruining her life. Her therapist suggests that she go to The Colony, an experimental commu- nity he runs. There, it is hoped she will remem- ber the incident, come to terms with it, and get on with her life.

Good. Great. Wonderful. Therapeutic... ex- cept that the Colony has a noise pollution prob- lem of a very strange sort: a bizarre, wolf-like howling that rises through the trees in the wee

hours of the morning. As the plot develops, |

Karen starts to think there’s something wrong around here...

The movie is kind of slow to develop. That’s the only problem. Otherwise it’s an atmos- pheric, occasionally frightening way to spend a couple hours.

It does have a couple of great things going for it: some terrific characters like Marsha, the nymphomaniac or the old guy, Earl, who we don’t see nearly enough of. It also has some odd cast choices, including Patrick MacNee (almost typecast as the psychiatrist), John Carradine (Kung-Fu Werewolves? I don’t think so, Tim.) and, of all people, Slim Pickens. Anda few lines are also memorable for the glimpse they give into the werewolf psyche. My favorite is when Bill, Karen’s husband, kills a rabbit. Being a vegetarian, he doesn’t want to eat it. Says T.C., “‘Now, you kill something you don’t eat, that’s a sin.’”

Its biggest draw, though, are its special effects, which allow us to watch, in detail, the gruesome transformation into Beast. Skin- Freaks will also enjoy the Werewolves-Have- Sex-While-Transforming scene included at no extra charge. The special effects aren’t as im- pressive for this scene, but they make it look like so much fun...

Judgement: Slow but effective picture, not as fastpaced as Freddy and Jason and nowhere near as bloody, but worth watching for the werewolf effects alone. It can even be disturb- ing in spots, like the idea that the werewolves serve as the natural predator of Man. As long as you stay far, far away from the sequels, Howl- ing is great fun. Just keep the throat lozenges handy in case you feel like singing along.

All these films are available almost any- where.

Next Week: I finally get around to review- ing a film I’ve been promising to for at least a year: Beastmaster II: Through The Portal Of Time. Better late than never, that’s my motto...

TRENT DRAKE

| STUFF J FORGOT

10.99+tax for the works.

My favourite pizza is from Pizza Delight, especially if you are eating in. They usually have good specials. Domino’s is good, but it seems too expensive unless you get a deal. The only one I really don’t like is Pizza Hut. I orderéd the big 16.99 special the other week. YUCK! The sauce was straight out of a bottle of no-name spaghetti sauce. To make matters worse, with taxes and the 3 dollar delivery charge (which they didn’t tell me about on the phone) the whole thing came to approximately 24.00. Of course, I have a long-standing aver- sion to Pizza Hut due to problems with leaking pop glasses. Al

Pizza Delight is my favourite eat-in pizza, it’s got a great atmosphere, and they make a good caesar, (salad and drink). My favourite pizza delivery place is Greco; the pizza is always hot and never burnt. I hate, no, hate isn’t strong enough to explain how I feel about Little Christo’s. I worked there for about two weeks- this was long enough to make me realize that you don’t want to know what they do to your pizza before you get it. The Greco deal is amazing, we ordered one between two of us one night, the few slices we had left over we ate for breakfast. Jennifer

I agree that PD is a good place to eat - for anything but pizza. My personal favourite is Domino’s, to spite the extra few dollars. I have

recurring dreams about the day the franchise

Restaurant Retrospective

Hunting for pizza

T his issue, we will be checking some of the pizza joints around town. Yes, we know we

should be on ‘‘E’’, but wouldn’t you rather eat pizza than eggplant? First of all, we went comparison-shopping to find out what every student needs to know: how much does it cost? Here’s what we found out for a large pizza with the works.

Restaurant $$$ Tax Included? Delivery Charge? DOMINO’S 23.20 Yes No

GRECO* 21.36 Yes No

LIL CHRISTO’S = 2for23.13 Yes 2.06

PIZZA DELIGHT 20.30 Yes 95

PIZZA HUT 20.00 ? No

*The 24 piece student deal at Greco (you have to ask for it) is

decides that dining rooms would be a good idea in arestaurant. About the others, Little Christo’s and Pizza Hut worry me. Little Christo’s had good food, but lousy service, rude waitresses and a shortage of my favourite ingredients on my last visit (before I swore off the place for good). At Pizza Hut, the tables wobbled and the friend I was with, an ex-employee, bragged about the lack of meat in their meat. Not good advertising. Of course, if you are really broke, Kraft or Chef-Boy-R-Dee mixes are a reason- able facsimile of pizza. Shannon.

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