The Beast Must Die Calvin Lockhart Peter Cushing Marlene Clark 1974

THE BEAST MUST DIE (1974) | Black Horror, Werewolves & a Murder Mystery Black Deth 101 continues our annual Month of Black Horror with the wild 1974 British horror mystery The Beast Must Die . Calvin Lockhart stars as millionaire hunter Tom Newcliffe, who gathers a group of suspicious guests at his isolated estate because he believes one of them is a werewolf.

His plan is simple: watch everyone, wait for the full moon—and hunt the beast. But this is no ordinary werewolf movie.

The Beast Must Die mixes horror, mystery, action, Blaxploitation attitude, and the structure of an old-school whodunit. It even stops near the end for the famous “Werewolf Break,” giving the audience a chance to guess who the monster really is.

Johnny Deth and Nubius Black get into: Calvin Lockhart and his commanding performance as Tom Newcliffe Peter Cushing doing what Peter Cushing does best The movie’s unusual blend of British horror and Blaxploitation The suspects, red herrings, and murder-mystery setup The legendary Werewolf Break The werewolf itself—and whether it actually works Amicus Productions and the state of horror movies in 1974 What America looked and sounded like when the film was released Why The Beast Must Die remains one of the strangest and most entertaining werewolf movies of the 1970s Is it a horror movie? A detective story?

A Blaxploitation film? A country-house mystery with a werewolf running through it?

The answer might be all of the above. Join Nubius Black and Johnny Deth as we revisit The Beast Must Die on Black Deth 101 .

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