This Day in Halloween: Gimmicky werewolf B-movie "The Beast Must Die" -- featuring Peter Cushing -- opens across the U.S. in 1974. / Illustration by Cheyenne Knehans
The Beast Must Die opens across the U.S. in 1974. The werewolf movie features a 30-second “werewolf break” near the end where the audience is asked to guess the wolf’s identity. An alternate director’s cut of the film, called Black Werewolf, omits the “werewolf break.”
