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Directed
& Edited by:
Philippe Mora
Written
by: Robert
Sarno & Gary Brandner
Gary Brandner (Novel)
Starring:
Christopher Lee ....
Stefan Crosscoe
Annie McEnroe .... Jenny
Templeton
Reb Brown .... Ben White
Marsha A. Hunt ....
Mariana
Sybil Danning .... Stirba
Judd Omen .... Vlad
Ferdy Maine .... Erle
Kenton
Patrick Field .... Deacon
Jimmy Nail .... Dom
Steven Bronowski ....
Moon Devil
Release
Date: Supposed
Theatrical: August 28,
1985 (France); January,
1986
*Images
courtesy at: www.badmovies.org
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Convinced
that his sister Karen White has
been a victim of a brutal
murderer Ben (Reb Brown) who is
an out of town law officer tries
to find this killer.
He
then meets up with an expert on
occults named Stefan Crosscoe
(Christopher Lee) as he tells him
that Karen was a victim to a
werewolf cult after showing him a
tape of what happened to her
while being broadcasted on the
6'o Clock news.
From
there he travels with Crosscoe
and Karen's best friend Jenny
Templeton (Annie McEnroe) to the
dark country of Transylvannia
where Karen was brought for a
holiday and so they can track
down their leader and put an end
to the werewolf cult.
However,
Karen is reincarnated into a
lustful leader of the pack this
time named Stirba (Sybil Danning)
as she has deadly plans for Jenny
while they arrive there and hunt
down her temple.
This film seemed
way too corny and cheesy to
believe this was a sequel to the
first film until I watched it
more to know it does take off
where the first one eneded off
but it looks insulting
regardless.
Yet, this film is fun to watch
and a nice cheesy 80's horror
flick.
Good to watch close to Halloween.
The dialogue is bad in the film
but it still seems to be
watchable.
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The acting is
nowhere as well performed like in
the first film with a cast of
b-film celebrities.
Christopher Lee who
plays a werewolf slayer in the
film seems to deliver his part
not too bad but is a little
rough. However, he shows great
seriousness to his character.
Annie McEnroe was the
worst actress in this film as she
should not have been cast at all.
Reb Brown stands out
well, tries to perform well but
at times doesn't have the knack
to his character.
Marsha A. Hunt as a
mysterious werewolf seems to look
good with her role and does a
fairly descent job but sometimes
she tried too hard.
Sybil Danning was one of
the best cast members in this
film as she perfomrs lustingly
evil as the head of the werewolf
cult. She really knew her stuff.
Marsha A. Hunt
has her top torn off showing her
full breasts as well as Sybil
Danning's during a seduction
scene in a temple.
There is a brief breast shot in
the temple during a group make
out scene.
A punk's hand is
chomped off.
There's some bloody gunshots and
stabbings
A midget's eyes explode
A creature of some sort tears
some flesh off a priests face as
well as plucking his eyes out.
A head is decapitated
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Philippe
Mora is not too
convincing with his work on this
sequel and it took me a while to
figure out that this one was
based after the first one.
The funeral scene was too rusty
and corny too with the dialogues
between Annie McEnroe and
Reb Brown afterwards in
the forestry area.
However he seems to show a nice
adventurous scene that involves
supporting actress Marsha A.
Hunt leading the actors who
play street punks to an abandoned
building only to be slaughtered
by a werewolf as the scenery
looks good with the werewolf
effects.
However, it lacks again when
there is a dialogue sequence with
Christopher Lee talking
to actors McEnroe and
Brown of what happened
before which he shows a tape of
the last ending footage of the
first one buit it made the first
film a little cheesy like this
one. Still it was fun to watch it
but not meant to be taken
seriously though.
We see great shots on Brown
and McEnroe in the deep
dark woods as well as the funeral
church when Brown acts
tough shooting any werewolves
that attack.
Lee shows descent
menacing actions towards a small
time actor who played a werewolf
demading to know where their
leader is.
Mora has a perfect
setting in a temple with cast
members and extra's chanting.
There's also a nice lustful scene
that involves Sybil Danning,
Judd Omen and Hunt
when they transform into
werewolves as well during this
time. It is very close for making
up the cheesiness to this film
and meeting up to the original.
There's also good shots on the
festivals happening in the small
town with people dancing and a
puppet act of a werewolf.
Danning really stood out
dressed in leather at the temple
near a bonfire when she starts
casting a spell of chants and in
the woods the werewolves get into
a fury and other intense moments
happen.
We see nice shots of people
transforming into werewolves too.
When Danning's character
tells her people who her brother
is it looked good, however, when
Hunt behaves monstrous it
looked too acted out.
There's a great chasing scene
that involves both Lee and
Brown.
The most effective direction was
with Lee and Danning
together close to the ending
as it looks gothically powerful.
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Stephen A.
Parsons does a terrific job
composing the music for the film
as it is very 80's like what
you'd see in a Return of
the Living Dead or A
Nightmare on Elm Street
type of film..
We also get a
groovy soundtrack by the punk
rock group Babel as they
appear onstage in the film many
times.
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