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Cast

Christopher Lee
as Stefan Crosscoe

Annie McEnroe
as Jenny Templeton

Reb Brown
as Ben White

Sybil Danning
as Stirba

Judd Omen
as Vlad

Ferdinand "Ferdy" Mayne
as Erle

Marsha A. Hunt
as Mariana

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• Oct 02, 2015

  Irony plays a major role in why Scream Factory decided to release Howling II, an inept, poker-faced sequel to Joe Dante's already overrated lycanthrope ode. From costuming (the cumbersome dominatrix garb of Danning) to atrocious special effects (the shots of werewolves could be inanimate animatronics waved by a gaffer in the frame), the film is a minimal notch below Troll 2 for execrable quality. The Mystery Science Theater riff rewatchability is ripe with potential. The band Babel's droning punk-rock song is recycled over and over. Reb Brown blares like an air raid while decimating skinwalkers with bullets that are not explicitly silver. Apparently editor Charles Bornstein had finally learned triangle wipes and other hokey transitions in his pre-Final Cut software because he flaunts every variation for the choppy segues. Perhaps, Philippe Mora surreptitiously collaborated with Robert Sarno and Gary Brandner on a deadpan satire of the werewolf craze. How else to explain the rhetorical "The Following Afternoon" title card or the lycanthrope ménage a trios scene? If so, it is utterly brilliant in its sincerity. If it's a foray into New Wave eroticism as Mora has proposed, it's an unmitigated failure. Sybil Danning is deliciously nubile in (and out of) leather bondage outfits but draping her in wooly hair all over her genitals is a mammoth faux pas. Most people cherish werewolf films for their transformation scenes where their limbs contort, their snouts extend and their hair bristles but, in Howling II, they are predominantly off-screen. Christopher Lee might be catatonic in the film because he is completely emotionless and unfazed by scenes of nonchalantly spiking a werewolf playing possum in a roadside accident. Lee's tussle with Danning should be equivalent to his lightsaber duel with Yoda. Instead it's a mess of light-emitting orifices and dispassionate embraces. Not the most glamorous exit for the queen of the werewolves. A reanimated bat basically having sexual intercourse with a priest's throat is a tawdry prosthetic which only increases the grossness factor.
  

  Cory T Super Reviewer
• Dec 09, 2011

  Sequel to The Howling is a poorly conceived sequel in to a classic horror film. Director Phillippe Mora is the first of many directors to make pointless and unnecessary sequels to a great film. Howling II is a stupid, boring film that has nothing going for it. I absolutely hated this film, and I thought that the great Christopher Lee was wasted here. He's too good an actor to act in schlock like this. This might have been a good sequel, if the writers of the original and Dante himself would have been involved; unfortunately this film is the first of seven dreadful sequels that should never have been made in the first place. I thought that this film was simply awful, not engaging, entertaining or fun. Horror films should be fun, thrilling and scary. Howling was none of those things. Even Christopher Lee couldn't save this film, and this is one of the weakest films he's ever done. I mean the guy is such a horror icon from all the Hammer horror films he's done in the 50's to the classic Wicker Man, he's got a solid resume of horror films. But The Howling II is not such a film. This is a dreadful film that strips away everything we loved about Joe Dante's classic. A boring, unimpressive sequel to a great film, Howling II is the perfect example of how a studio can create a dud to cash in on the success of a great film. A film not worth watching.
  Alex r Super Reviewer
• Feb 24, 2011

  Just as bad as the 1st but in my opinion the better of the 2.Didn't Sybil Danning look like Lady Caca in the final scenes when she was wearing that weird looking black outfit?
  Brody M Super Reviewer
• Oct 31, 2010

  A horrible sequel to a good werewolf movie. Poor Christopher Lee doesn't get any good lines, and they story sucks, you feel bad for him. I do not recommend this movie, even if you loved the first one.
  Aj V Super Reviewer

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