The Beast Must Die (1974) (original) (raw)

Tom Newcliffe, 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 guest is a werewolf and Tom has summoned his guests here to discover who it is and to hunt it down... The film has a clip at the beginning asking people in ...(more)

Tom Newcliffe, 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 guest is a werewolf and Tom has summoned his guests here to discover who it is and to hunt it down... The film has a clip at the beginning asking people in the audience to try to identify the werewolf and near the end there is a 30-second "Werewolf Break" for the audience to think over the evidence... (less)

Director: Paul Annett
Writers: James Blish, Michael Winder, Paul Annett, Scott Finch
Starring: Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark, Charles Gray, Anton Diffring, Michael Gambon
Narrator: Valentine Dyall
Producers: Max Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky, John Dark, Robert H. Greenberg

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