The Beast Must Die (1974): Can You Solve a Werewolf Murder Mystery?

Here's a great horror setup:

Gather a group of people together.

Tell them one of them is secretly a werewolf.

Then make the audience figure out who it is.

That's The Beast Must Die (1974).

The movie mixes supernatural horror with an Agatha Christie-style mystery as wealthy hunter Tom Newcliffe gathers several guests at his isolated estate because he believes one of them is a werewolf.

It's such a wonderfully strange premise that the movie even gives viewers a chance to guess the werewolf's identity before the answer is revealed.

Forget Knives Out.

Give us Werewolves Out.

Night 5 of 30 Nights of Werewolves proves that the genre can be more than transformations and monster attacks.

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🐺 Tonight: The Beast Must Die (1974)
🌕 Tomorrow: a forgotten '70s wolf emerges.