The Beast Must Die (1974)
Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart), a rich businessman and expert hunter, summons six guests to his huge country estate which he has rigged up with video cameras and a high-tech security system. He tells them and his surprised wife that they are all to stay over a weekend and that all of them will be kept on the estate during that weekend. For each guest, dead bodies have followed in their wake and the way that the dead have been murdered means that one of the guests is a werewolf and Tom has summoned his guests here to discover who it is and to hunt it down. This movie has a clip at the beginning asking people in the audience to try to identify the werewolf, and near the end, there is a thirty-second "Werewolf Break" for the audience to think over the evidence.
Cast and Crew:
Director(s):
Paul Annett
Writer(s):
Michael Winder, Paul Annett, Scot Finch; James Blish (story "There Shall Be No Darkness")
Starring:
Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark, Charles Gray, Anton Diffring, Ciaran Madden, Tom Chadbon, Michael Gambon, Sam Mansary, Andrew Lodge, Carl Bohen, Eric Carte, Valentine Dyall, Annie Ross
Producer(s):
John Dark, Robert H. Greenberg, Max Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky
Release Info:
Release Date: April 1974 (USA) | Length: 93 min | Genre: Horror, Mystery | Certificate: PG | Note(s): Also known as "Black Werewolf".