Redwarmin
This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
VividSimon
Simply Perfect
Baseshment
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
fredroyer
Just kidding.if you can make it all the way through, at least it has Christopher Lee, but during the end credits Sybil Danning has a scene repeated from the film where she rips off her shirt and bares her breast. They repeat it like 17 times. It made my mom laugh out loud.
nightroses
This is a weak sequal to "The Howling", one of my favourite horror movies. "The Howling II" was very different. The link to the first movie is that the start of this movie happens during the funeral of a reporter who was in the first film. Her brother is the lead of this film. He meets a colleague of his dead sister, and they hook up to look into what mess happened to her and why she was killed. Christopher Lee is the biggest star of the film, even though he looked very uncomfortable and later he regretted being in this flick. They tried to make Lee a type of Van Helsing or werewolf hunter.
The film is set in America somewhere, but later ends up in Transylvania, the land of the werewolves. It's a place that the lead werewolf of the world, a very old woman, becomes a nightmare. This is just more fantasy than horror. There are some gruesome scenes but the werewolves look nothing like they did in the first movie. Here in Howling 2 they just resemble humans in furry Halloween costumes. There are some ridiculous scenes. The punks are there to show Christopher Lee how times have changed since his Hammer Horror film days as Dracula in the 60's and early 70's.
DarthVoorhees
It is of no debate that 'Howling II' is universally considered a bad movie. It is really bad but the question has been is this a diamond in the rough of eighties cheese that connoisseurs of corn can revel in? The answer is a no sadly. 'Howling II' does not meet the criteria for a good bad film because it has trouble filling it's ninety minute runtime. The movie is essentially the late great Christopher Lee spouting apocalyptic warnings in between cuts of werewolf S&M sex that is basically pornography. That it is such a boring movie is kind of beyond me...My draw to the film was Christopher Lee, the late horror legend. The loss of his great talent pains me but he left a magnificent legacy of wonderful performances in classic horror films. 'Howling II' is his turd. I used to believe that Lee and his frequent partner Cushing could do no wrong in this type of role even if the film was bad. The problem is that 'Howling II's complete ineptness brings Lee down. Largely it is the fault of the inane dialogue which Lee himself cannot save although by God he tries his hardest. The problem being that Lee emanates intelligence and depth in his on screen persona and when this dialogue is so slap together with no concern to theme or character, well it makes Lee look stupid. This is so unfortunate. Seeing as how Lee is wasted there was really no chance of this film working as everything else is pretty pathetic. The campiness of Sybill Danning as Stirba wears off quickly. I mean the werewolf orgies are funny at first but it ends up being the only thing the werewolves do in the film. One thinks that instead of the S&M costumes they should have spent a little more of the budget on perfecting the werewolves which look like second rate Chewbaccas. The cardinal sin of 'Howling II' is it's padding. It doesn't know how to fill a feature and thus a criminal amount of padding is added to the script to increase it's run time. The same theme song is repeated at least five times. We get harrowing scenes of our heroes looking for their hotel or pondering about whether a dwarf is watching them. In my opinion a bad movie cannot be a good bad movie if it doesn't have a sense of purpose or a brisk pace. 'Howling II' drags and it drags bad. It would be fine if we spent more time with Lee but with the shaved gorilla Reb Brown the whole thing becomes a chore.The excessive scenes are entertaining for a little bit but it isn't worth sitting through the whole thing. One gets the whole effect of the 'Howling II' in a short Youtube compilation clip and sometimes that is the best way to experience a bad movie. I wouldn't watch it again except in a Rifftrax scenario or if I were to pelt it with insults with a friend.
thesar-2
So, I finally, after what?, 28 years, saw the first (and last for me) sequel to my favorite werewolf movie of all-time, The Howling.Oddly, for me, at least, I've seen all Howling chapters, but not the very first sequel, or Howling II:…Your Sister Is a Werewolf, until now. And wow, I wasn't missing much.Sure, ALL of the Howling installments have been crap. I don't think there's a series in the history of cinema that had an incredible beginning and every single follow-up have been absolute trash. But, this one, Part II, actually had potential and an interesting idea: a brother of the heroine of the original goes after those responsible for turning his sister…into a werewolf.But, after the premise (and Part II's singular effective scene with the Original's heroine in the coffin) goes nowhere, the movie is one incoherent mess of a scene after the next. Nothing made sense or had any continuity and it appears drugs weren't just on the mind of the writer/director, but in their system.I wasn't able to say it before, since I hadn't seen this sequel, but now with full knowledge, I can honestly say: watch THE HOWLING and please never ever, EVER, venture to any of the seven follow-ups. It's too bad that not one of the seven could come close to the excellence of the original and it's even worse that they continuously made these movies when after Howling II:…Your Sister Is a Werewolf was so incredibly horrible.* * * Final thoughts: Okay, okay, if you like hairy breasts, you might like this. You will see them repeatedly.
