
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 werewo... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
Leave your thoughts about The Beast Must Die.
| The Seattle TimesMark RahnerWhen The Beast Must Die is ripping off The Most Dangerous Game, it’s an amusing, if minor, genre offering. |
| The TelegraphTim StanleyA good-looking and entertaining British horror film. |
| Horror.comStaci Layne WilsonThe Beast Must Die is worth a look, as long as you enjoy unintentionally campy kitsch from the swinging 70s and werewolf myths. |
| User ReviewLewis LWEREWOLF movie! nuff said! Ok, almost nuff: This is one of the top 3 werewolf movies of all time, ps those of you who guess "Christopher Lee" in the Werewolf Break get 30 points |
| User ReviewHikaru IWEREWOLF movie! nuff said! Ok, almost nuff: This is one of the top 3 werewolf movies of all time, ps those of you who guess "Christopher Lee" in the Werewolf Break get 30 points |
| User ReviewFacebook UThis is exceptionally played a well done movie. It's needs to be remade!!!@. A great cast and great plot. That's all a movie needs!!!!! |
| User ReviewBlue Elfnot a bad concept, i wouldn't mind if it was remade... |
| User ReviewPrivate UAll round good cheesy fun! From the opening 70s wocka guitars to Calvin Lockhart's over the top performance, this is a great werewolf movie with a unique selling point of challenging you to guess who is the werewolf! |
| User ReviewStuart KFrom the underrated Amicus studios, (like Hammer, only just that little bit cheaper), comes one of their best horror films, except it's not really a horror, it's more of a mystery thriller with added blood. But it's a good film with a gimmick that William Castle would have been proud of. Set on a vast country estate somewhere in the English countryside, millionaire Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart) invites a group of people to his mansion for a few days, in the company and his wife Caroline (Marlene Clark). The guests include Prof. Lundgren (Peter Cushing, with a comedy South African accent), couple Jan and Davina Gilmore (Michael Gambon and Ciaran Madden), artist Paul Foote (Tom Chadbon) and diplomat Arthur Bennington (Charles Gray). The reason Newcliffe has invited them is that one of them is a werewolf, and for the few days they'll be staying at the mansion, there'll be 3 nights with a full moon. The grounds are rigged with cameras and microphones, all supervised by Newcliffe's security chief Pavel (Anton Diffring). Then, people start dying, but who could the werewolf be?? Plus, they all have something to hide. It's an enjoyable piece of nonsense, it has a good cast, but it has an absolutely brilliant score by Douglas Gamley, with Blaxploitation themes. The film's "Werewolf break" adds to the cheesiness, but it gives it a charm. |
| User ReviewMark DFantastic. Ridiculously entertaining, with so much charm. Great cast, and a genuinely intriguing mystery where YOU are the detective, thanks to the genius werewolf twist. Brilliant. |