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Post by someoldguy on Sept 25, 2019 11:10:36 GMT -5
I loved the original movie - The Howling 1981. But II and III were IMO so bad that I was turned off to the series. Are there any good ones in the franchise that I should check out?
All you members who have not posted for a while, any opinions? I know you are out there. I can hear your heavy breathing.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Sept 25, 2019 12:07:51 GMT -5
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Post by silverbullet63 on Sept 25, 2019 12:51:30 GMT -5
Howling VI: The Freaks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJC-3v9Lm3c
All I recall of this one is Bruce Payne and Antonio Fargas are in it.
Plus Underworld clearly borrowed a bit from this sequel.
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Post by someoldguy on Sept 25, 2019 15:50:16 GMT -5
I watched Howling V. Passable but not great IMO. Some comments: First, to get this out of the way, those 80s hair styles!  More seriously, Dialog, acting – mostly meh but not bad enough to be annoying. Sets are rather good, apparently much of them part of a real castle? Camera work and editing are always at least competent and sometimes quite good. The basic story is a good one even if sometimes the exposition gets a little confusing.
Marylou being a werewolf is not really sufficiently foreshadowed, although it fits with her killing the count and only relatives being able to kill werewolves. Unless I really missed the boat she is not the werewolf, being accounted for at critical times. It smacks of the switcheroo “it’s not over yet” ending that was already very hackneyed by then.
In a werewolf movie, it just might be a good idea to, I dunno, maybe see some werewolves. A few brief glimpses hardly count. We get to see more on the posters for the movie.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Sept 25, 2019 21:27:07 GMT -5
Reminds me of The Beast Must Die, but the reveal of the werewolf wasn't much of a surprise.
Budgetary constraints is probably why the werewolf wasn't shown much.
Still the best sequel in the franchise IMHO, liked the murder mystery angle, setting and score.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Sept 29, 2019 9:30:40 GMT -5
Look forward to your thoughts on Howling IV.
The cheese and camp is quite thick in that one.
LOL!!!
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Post by someoldguy on Sept 29, 2019 14:06:50 GMT -5
Look forward to your thoughts on Howling IV. The cheese and camp is quite thick in that one. LOL!!! Passable low budget entertainment. Not something I would recommend or watch again but not time wasted either. The basic idea was good if one is willing to accept an entire town normal in all other respects but populated entirely by werewolves. Also, exactly why were the werewolves all compelled to answer the call of the bell at breakneck speed? That should have been foreshadowed. Or did I miss it? I know it came from Europe where everyone in a town was burned alive in a church. Did that somehow impart a geas curse? The Old Witch in Vault of Horror comics would surely not have made that slip. Cheese and hamminess (ham and cheese?) is OK in this kind of movie if handled well. Look at Son of Frankenstein. But there the hamminess was in the hands of masters, not amateurs. The interactions between Rathbone and Atwill that were skewered so perfectly in Young Frankenstein, for example. But I digress... |
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Post by ArcLight on Sept 29, 2019 17:53:17 GMT -5
The Howling is my favorite werewolf movie, and one of my top five movies, period. Probably because of that, I absolutely adore the Howling series, even if most of the rest of them are gawdawful (or worse).
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Post by someoldguy on Sept 29, 2019 18:13:27 GMT -5
The Howling is my favorite werewolf movie, and one of my top five movies, period. Probably because of that, I absolutely adore the Howling series, even if most of the rest of them are gawdawful (or worse). If it were not that they had such a paragon of werewolf movies to try to live up to, I might have looked on some of the sequels in a kinder light. Well some of them anyway. |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Sept 30, 2019 10:48:05 GMT -5
The Howling is my favorite werewolf movie, and one of my top five movies, period. Probably because of that, I absolutely adore the Howling series, even if most of the rest of them are gawdawful (or worse).
My Sister Is A Werewolf and The Marsupials are both hilariously bad. 
The former features a great song though.
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Post by someoldguy on Sept 30, 2019 20:02:17 GMT -5
The Howling is my favorite werewolf movie, and one of my top five movies, period. Probably because of that, I absolutely adore the Howling series, even if most of the rest of them are gawdawful (or worse).
My Sister Is A Werewolf and The Marsupials are both hilariously bad.
The former features a great song though.
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