Joe Karlosi wrote:
Well, it's hard to say. If it was an exact scene-for-scene redo with no different ideas and it still took place in the 1940s, what would be the point of remaking it?

That's exactly what I thought when I saw the shot for shot remake of Hitchcock's PSYCHO. Why...why...whyyyy? (as Nancy Kerrigan put it, so long ago)

I loved THE HOWLING in the theater, and would put it in the close-to-being-great catagory. As a kid, I always envisioned werewolves to look like those pictured in old woodcuts-oversized, upright wolves with claws. THE HOWLING delivered for me in that respect, and was pretty damn scary to boot.