Eddie Quist

"You said on the phone that you wanted to get to know me. Well, here I am, Karen. Look at me. I wanna give you a piece of my mind. I trusted you, Karen."

- Eddie Quist confronting Karen in their second and final encounter.

Eddie Quist aka Eddie the Mangler, was a very infamous werewolf and one of the greatest ever and the main antagonist of the 1981 horror film The Howling (the original film that was later followed by the other great and infamous sequels that were a success to the franchise).

Role in the original Howling film 1981
Eddie was a serial killer who stalked the streets of LA and killed countless. Due to the fact that he was well known for his crimes and the causes of deaths that he carried out, he was known as and given the alias Eddie the Mangler (little did anyone know that Eddie was a werewolf). One day, a female reporter named Karen White decided to meet up with Eddie and "get to know him" in a attempt to set a trap for him to meet him in a movie boost where the police would arrest him.

Eddie arranged the meeting and met her alone in the movie boost and stood behind her, forcing her to watch a woman being raped. Eddie says that she's dead and she doesn't feel a thing and doesn't let Karen turn around to get a clear look at his face yet. Moments pass and Eddie is tranforming into a werewolf (which is unseen by the viewers), his voice becomes gravely when he says "Turn around now, Karen". She sees him in werewolf form and she screams. The two police officers hear from outside, rush to the rescue and shoot Eddie dead before he can kill her. Karen is suffering from memory loss after the whole thing.

Weeks later while having strange nightmares about Eddie and about what had transpired, she and her husband Bill take a trip to the camp near the colony, little do they know that everyone there is a werewolf espcially Eddie's brother (T.C Quist) and Eddie's sister (Marsha Quist). They hang out with each other and one night, Bill gets attacked by a werewolf (possibly either Marsha, T.C, or just a random werewolf) and bitten on the arm. After taking some treatment from Dr Waggner (another werewolf member of the colony), Bill is later completly fine, although he starts acting strange; eating meat when he was really a vegitarian and acting a bit violent.

A friend of Karen's named Chris and his girlfriend Terry find out some important information about werewolves and hunt for clues to confirm that Eddie Quist is dead. When they reach the boost, they didn't find the body but they found out that there was a great big hole in the wall which obviously meant that something must have tried to break out of the place. They separate and Terry goes to Eddie's shack.