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The Beast Must Die is a 1974 horror film directed by Paul Annett. Screenplay by Michael Winder, based on the short story There Shall Be No Darkness by James Blish. Starring Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark, Michael Gambon, Charles Gray, Anton Diffring, Ciaran Madden, and Tom Chadbon. 93 minutes, rated PG.

Tagline: One of these eight people will turn into a werewolf. Can you guess who it is when we stop the film for the WEREWOLF BREAK? See it ... solve it ... but don't tell!
Plot summary
Calvin Lockhart stars as Tom Newcliffe, a wealthy business tycoon with an obsession for big game hunting. Newcliffe has invited a group of friends and acquaintances to his sprawling country estate for what is assumed to be a pleasant weekend gathering. Soon enough, however, he reveals his intentions for assembling the group. It seems that each of the guests has a sordid secret in his or her past, and bad things tend to happen to people who are around them. It is Newcliffe's firm belief that one of the guests at his house is a werewolf, and it is not only his goal to prove the existence of such a beast, but to stalk it and kill it as the ultimate quarry. The moon is full, the wolfbane is in bloom, and Newcliffe has his firearms loaded with silver bullets. But who is the werewolf?
Additional information

The film features "the werewolf break," in which there is a 1-minute intermission and the audience is allowed to guess who the werewolf is. This gimmick was taken from the 1965 remake of Ten Little Indians''.
Alternate video version is titled Black Werewolf.

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