Howling II: ...Your Sister Is A Werewolf (1985)

Ever since the pandemic happened, nobody has been able to go tot he theaters to see a film and that has been a major rag among other things. Dreadphile Cinema Club is this really cool group based out of Providence was a group that was affected by the whole pandemic, but starting today and every Thursday they've decided to screen a film on Twitch to try and help temporarily cure the blues of not being able to go and this week they showed Howling II:...Your Sister Is A Werewolf. The film was released in 1985 and it was directed by Philippe Mora (Mad Dog Morgan). The film stars Reb Brown (Captain America II) as Ben White, who has just discovered that his sister Karen (from the first film) is a werewolf and he decides that he is going to help an investigator (Christopher Lee) track down the werewolves responsible. The film also stars Annie McEnroe (Beetlejuice) as Jenny, Marsha A. Hunt (Welcome To The Club) as Mariana, Sybil Danning (Amazon Women On The Moon) as Stirba, Judd Omen (Pee Wee's Big Adventure) as Vlad, Ferdy Mayne (The Fearless Vampire Killers) as Erle, Jirí Krytinár (Bathory: Countess Of Blood) as Vasile, Patrick Field (Killing Me Softly) as Deacon, and Jan Kraus (3 Seasons In Hell) as Tondo.

First off, I would like to take the time to thank Dreadphile Cinema Club  for doing this and while it may not replace the feeling of being in a theater, but it definitely helps. One of the elements that the film has working for it is the soundtrack which was written and recorded by Steve Parsons and his band at the time Babel. They scored the entire film and it was honestly a great soundtrack and the theme song is fantastic as we get to see them perform it in the film. The other element that it has working for it is the great and late Christopher Lee who I was surprised to see that he took this role after being a legend as Dracula in the Hammer films. Nonetheless, he was absolutely superb in the film as Stefan Crosscoe who turns out has a secret of his own in the film. The Howling was such an amazing film for what it was, but for the sequel they sort of gave it the TCM II treatment and put it through the 80's machine. One thing was definitely for sure and that was that some of the special effects were cheesy as hell, but that's part of the fun with these films. I also thought that the werewolves in the first film were definitely a lot better than this one as some of them clearly looked like they were wearing werewolf Halloween masks. One of the other cheesy scenes was right when Sybil was introduced, I thought all were going to see is them act like cats trying to make love with each other for most of the film almost like they didn't have anything great written so they were like give us more weird werewolf sex. The film is definitely fun to watch as soon as you accept the fact that it was the 1980's. I am going to give the film an C+ for a final grade.