What a waste of my time!!!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

A well known female journalist takes a needed break out in the Californian countryside along with her husband(?) but there are mysterious things going on, the locals aren't very friendly and at night she can hear howling! More of a remake than a sequel. We don't get to see a werewolf proper until after an hour into the film, but prior to that there is horror in the form of psychological tension & ghostly happenings. Now I can understand many viewers feeling cheated by this but for me personally I felt that it worked fine. However, last half hour provides enough werewolf action to make the wait worthwhile. The best transformation scene sees a man literally MELT into a werewolf. There's a fair smattering of gore plus one inevitable sex scene. I'm not sure if the film was dubbed but sometimes the speech & mouth actions don't match, but just a minor moan. Obviously I'm in the minority here but like I said I found it reasonably entertaining & trust me, there are far worse werewolf movies out there!

This plodding and deathly dull entry in the HOWLING franchise is only notable for a couple of decent special effects scenes in the last ten minutes of the movie, but unfortunately you have to ensure the previous eighty minutes before you get to these bits. The first eighty minutes adopts a predictable mystery template, as a young writer moves to a strange old town in the middle of nowhere, and hears howling noises coming from the wood. Is she going mad, or are there really wolves living out there? Does anybody really care? The answer is, unfortunately, no. The film is cheaply made and director John Hough, formerly of the Hammer Horror stable, really doesn't distinguish himself at all, providing a bland, TV-movie look to the proceedings.The film's mystery is a really run-of-the-mill one, with the bad guys being obvious right from the start, so the whole conspiracy angle just falls flat. It doesn't help that lead actress Romy Windsor (THE HOUSE OF USHER) is so…well…normal, either. She's just there, and undistinguished from a million other low budget scream queens of the 1980s. A minor plus point of the film is the '80s setting, which allows for a cheesy mulleted hero – played with gusto by Michael T. Weiss – something I have to say I enjoyed a little. However, the film is so cheap that most of the voices are dubbed in, which makes it just look even more amateurish. Exploitation stalwart Harry Alan Towers was on board as producer, but the film doesn't have much of the gusto of his other movies.However, the last ten minutes ARE decent. There are torn throats aplenty, a pack of dogs with glowing red eyes which look pretty damn cool, and a massive werewolf beast inside a church. For horror fans, best of all is the excruciating sequence (yes, even more excruciating than AN American WEREWOLF IN London) in which a guy melts down to a fleshy skeleton before growing back into a werewolf! The latter two effects are courtesy of Steve Johnson, who really distinguishes himself with these gooey offerings, a definite highlight of the film. It's just a shame that, as fast as the fun begins, the film ends on a low note. If only these things had happened half an hour in and continued from there, it might have been a decent movie

Haunted by a series of unnatural happenings, a young author, Marie Adams heads for the sanctuary of a rural hideout in a desperate bid to regain her sanity - but only to find a horror much more deadly than her own deranged imaginings. From the depths of the forest it's calling and waiting for the full moon, to hunt Marie down and to take her on a terrifying journey into the gaping jaws of death. As night descends, the howling rises again to shatter the stillness of the night.This film starred: Romy Windsor, Michael T. Weiss & Anthony Hamilton.I have seen the first 4 howling films and this is my favourite one although I still don't like it. In my opinion best to worst is like this (so far as I have not seen some of the sequels)...Howling 4 Howling Howling 3 Howling 2This film is not really recommended.**/***** Poor.

Writer Marie Adams (Romy Windsor) is having strange visions. Marie's husband Richard (Michael T. Weiss) takes her to a cottage in the small town of Drago to relax and rest. The visions continue, however, and Marie eventually finds that the town of Drago is full of werewolves. The plot to this film is a reworking of the original Howling. Actually, it's a more faithful adaptation of the original novel in many respects. It also sucks big time. It's all very drab and tedious. Obviously the movie has fans. My sister is one of them. Growing up she actually preferred this film to the original Howling! Windsor and Weiss are fine, I guess, but it's all so dull. See the original or even the hilarious part 2 instead.