Wolfen (1981)

Directors

Michael Wadleigh

Cast

Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos, Gregory Hines

The story

Former NYPD Captain Dewey Wilson is brought back to the force and assigned to solve a bizarre string of violent murders after high-profile magnate Christopher Van der Veer, his wife Pauline, and his bodyguard are slain in Battery Park. Executive Security, the private firm employed by Van der Veer, blames the murders on a group of left-wing anarchists, but knowing that Van der Veer's bodyguard was a Haitian with voodoo-ties leads Wilson to doubt this theory because the bodyguard was torn apart with ruthless efficiency (the anarchists are mostly activist bomb-makers, not violent assassins). With pressure to solve the case coming from both…

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