Parents Guide for
The Howling (1981) More at IMDbPro »

A woman goes to a porn theater and watches a movie. In the movie a couple of guys are trying to rape a woman. The woman's breasts are shown. The image of this woman is shown a couple of times throughout the movie in flashbacks.

A woman is referred to as a nyphomaniac.

A man and woman are seen having sex, we can see full frontal nudity on her.

An old man tries to commit suicide, he referred to as being drunk.

In the coroner's office, a couple of organs are shown sitting on a table right next to a hamburger the pathologist is eating.

A decapitated cow's head is shown.

A man hunts for, shoots, and kills a rabbit. A woman later starts chopping the rabbit to cook it. You see what looks to be a paw fly through the air.

A man is attacked by a werewolf, it bites his arm.

A man and woman start to transform into werewolves, she scratches his back causing bloody claw marks to appear.

A woman is attacked by a werewolf, she chops its hand off with an axe. The bloody hand is shown pulsing and moving.

A man slaps his wife.

A woman is attacked and killed by a werewolf. She's shown with a mangled and bloody neck.

A man digs a finger into his forehead, he then starts slowly transforming into a werewolf. A woman throws a chemical on him and he starts smoking.

A dead woman is lying on a table, the skin on her stomach has been ripped off.

A man is shown with a bloody stump instead of a hand.

A man hits another man with the butt of a rifle.

Blood is shown on a tape recorder.

A man is shown with a melted face. He starts to change into a werewolf but is shot in the neck.

A man gets shot while transforming into a werewolf.

A couple of men get shot.

Multiple people are shown transforming into werewolves. They are trapped in a building that is set on fire.

A werewolf attacks two people in a car.

A woman is bitten by a werewolf on the shoulder. The werewolf gets shot.

A woman transforms into a werewolf and gets shot

A few uses of shit and other mild profanities. One use of fuck.

A man gets a drink (looks to be cocktail punch) and he asks what's in it but doesn't get an answer.

Many of the scenes with the werewolves are very intense and frightning. The part where Eddie Quist transforms into a werewolf takes several minutes but is very frightning and not for children under 12.