As a long-time fan of The Howling series... wait, that came out wrong... As a long-time fan of 1981's original and a lover of werewolf films in general (bah, who am I kidding, I really like Howling V as well), I was pretty interested when they announced a new Howling sequel, over 15 years after the previous disaster, and 30 years after the original. … [Read more...]

Clive Turner is back as co writer and producer of this instalment in the long-in-the-tooth (geddit?) Howling franchise, but this time he also stars as one of the main characters. In late 15th century Hungary a couple massacre the entire population of their castle, their family, servants, everyone, in a failed attempt to kill off a werewolf bloodline. … [Read more...]

Howling IV: The Original Nightmare represents the first involvement in the Howling franchise of Clive Turner, as the co-writer and producer of this film, he also has a small cameo in this film. Remember the name, he'll come up in other Howling films. The film is a reasonably faithful adaptation of Gary Brandner's original Howling novel, which means it shares more than a few … [Read more...]

Despite the many sequels to Joe Dante's brilliant 1981 werewolf film The Howling, Howling II is the only one which directly follows or references the events of the original. It also seems to have two subtitles, either 'Your Sister is a Werewolf' which gives away a big and utterly pointless plot point or 'Stirba: Werewolf Bitch' which is more to the point. … [Read more...]

I had a theory that classic werewolf films were released every 20 years, starting in 1941 with Universal's classic 'The Wolfman' with Lon Chaney jr. as the afflicted lycanthrope, through 1961 with Hammer's 'Curse of the Werewolf' with Oliver Reed as the snarling lead. 1981 followed this trend with An American Werewolf in London, when David Naughton tore up London and the … [Read more...]