Censorship in film posters
When '
The Howling' opened in New York on March 13th, 1981, this was the newspaper advert that was used
28 days later, and the film opened in L.A. on April 10th, 1981, and this was the newspaper advert that was used
In the interim month, the werewolf transformation had obviously completed, with the victim gaining longer, more prominent fingernails and fangs !
In the UK, we had a third variation of the poster