After early screenings revealed that audiences thought – correctly – that this was an intensely terrible movie, the film-makers decided to take a Pee-wee-Herman-over-the-handlebars “I meant to do that” approach. Thus if you’re watching it now, it probably has the subtitle “Your sister is a werewolf” stuck on it. Unfortunately, pretending a movie this stupid was intended to be a comedy only transforms it into a stupid comedy. The twin disgraces that set this apart from other pictures of similar ilk is that it squanders the talent of Christopher Lee and the good running start it got from the first Howling, a movie with script, acting and effects as good as the same elements here are bad. Oh, and note to anyone watching this on Chiller (or similar venue): the presence of Sybil Danning alone should tell you that some cheap nudity has been excised from the print. Wish I’d skipped it
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