Trailer of the Day: Howling 2

I'm having a very hard time expressing my feeling about this one. As you may or may not know I really LOVE the first Howling. It's got great monster design, a pretty good plot, and a really bleak ending.

Howling 2 has none of these things.

The werewolf's make up is comically bad, the plot was needlessly convoluted, and within the first 10 minutes it takes away most of what made the ending of the first one so great. However despite all the flaws, I still found fairly entertaining, in a weird, campy sort of way. It actually has everything I love in bad horror movies; characters whose actions make no sense, lots of bad gore (one guy's eyeballs explode after the werewolf queen shoots him with force lightning, true story), and lots of batshit insanity (the werewolves kill Christopher Lee's midget henchman and then send his possessed body back to kill Lee).

That brings me to the other great thing about this movie, Christoper Lee. I didn't even know he was in it till he popped up on screen. His character is pretty weird too. He plays a werewolf hunter who enlists the main character's help in hunting down the werewolf queen and then proceeds to ignore them and leave them in dangerous situations for the rest of the movie. Weird.

So in the end I think this movie actually suffered from having the Howling name on it. If was just named Revenge of the Werewolf Queen or something I think I would have been able to enjoy for what it is; a bad but bizarrely entertaining werewolf movie.