A
bunch of murders happen on a full moon at
a hotel bar in a deserted little town
called Pioneertown after a traveller
driving a motorcycle named Ted Smith
(Clive Turner) arrives and is a possible
suspect as the killings look like the
kind of a werewolf and a preacher named
Father John (Jack Huff) is on the search
of a woman named Mary Lou (Elizabeth She)
who is reportedly a wereolf herself after
some slayings from the previous flicks
and is possibly nearby as well.
He also questions a woman named Marie
Adams (Romy Windsor) as she had a
terrible encounter with werewolfs where
she was residing which also affected her
husband too.
Ted is forced to stay in his hotel room
until they find out who the werewolf
really is and try to be prepared before
this beast strikes again.
There are interesting
shots of Ted Smith riding his motorbike on
the orad to a bar.
There's many corny shots on people taking
sqaure dancing lessons along with Ted and other people doing the
same routine with drinking and theuir
comedic blocking doing other stuff at a
bar.
There's many discussions between the Inspector and Father John having
a discussion about what happened to
others in the past with werewolves
attacking which looked unbelieveable and
awfully stale too. The only thing worth
watching with these scene's were the
flashbacks from the last three sequels
along with discussing who is a suspect
and why so but again it looks very stale
and boring.
There's some good shots on Leslee, Dolores and Jaro while spotting a
dead body but then the situations with this slides
when they react to it and thinking who
could've done this.
We spot some fair camera shots between
Marie Adams and Father John about what happened in
her past which goes to a flashback on her
moments in Howling IV.
We have a menacing scene between a nasty officer and Ted with
camera shots circling around them along a
good shot on a werewolf attacking with this officer freaking out. This is probably the best
scene to speak on this film.
We spot a good moment with Mary Lou pointing a shotgun towards Ted and speaking coldly to him with good
shots on the both of them.
There's a good shot on Mary Lou opening the curtains and staring at the
moon with cheesy effects on her changing
and then a fake looking plastic mask on a
werewolfs head.
There's a good shot on her as a werewolf
breaking down a door as this was the
second best direction of all. Sorry folks
this was all lazily done.
Bottom line is that this movie is so
terrible I can't explain how awful it is
when I was trying my best to have fun
watching it like the recent sequels but
there's very little werewolf scene's in
the film and the rest of it was used in
the flashback sequences from Howling
4, 5 and 6
which were far better flicks too. Whoever
made this must've seen Silent
Night Deadly Night 2 and decided
to do the same thing to save money on
effects etc.
When the werewolf is revealed in the film
you can tell it's a costume too plus the
budget is close to real video quality
with a bad plot mostly showing people
square dancing and performing country
songs, I mean is this a horror movie or a
musical? C'mon make up your mind. A fan who had very little money obviously
wanted to make a final chapter to end it
all and I can see why an 8th one never
saw the light of day after watching this
heap of trash.
The acting is
terrible and full of virtual unknowns who
are just saying their lines and getting
very little into character. You can tell
most of the cast were friends of the
filmmakers with no experience at all as
most of them don't have character names
and are playing themselves.
Clive Turner (Ted Smith) who directed, write and
produced this film also had one of the
main roles as a biker in the film and
seemed to try his best to get into
chracter and he is slacking at times but
sometimes added some humor to his part.
Jack Huff (Father John) played a character name as
a preacher but it seems that he is only a
line reader and is extremely bland when
his role was supposed to be powerful in
the story.
Claude 'Pappy' Allen (Pappy) seemed a bit
charming as the elderly bar owner in the
film who seemed to portray more of a
character than most of the cast in the
film but that's not saying a heck of
alot.
There's a cameo at the end of the movie
performed by Elizabeth She
(Mary Lou) reprising her role from the previous two
sequels showing a good aggressive and
cold speaking attitude and it's a shame
her role was small in it till towards the
end of the flick.
There's the odd
bloody neck bites and scarred faces with
some bloodshed too but most of the other
gore is seen in the flashback sequences
from the previous sequels.
The music is composed by Guy
Moon who had reputation with his
trashy scoring on other low budget
horror's from the 80's like in Creepozoids
and Sorority Babes in the
Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama and trust
me he doesn't get much better with this
film in which there's some country
twanging music you can tell was used on a
synthesizer but he does compose some real
guitar sliding music for some of the
effective moments near the deserted area
of the country bar. He became more
successful with his composing shortly
after this film like using his music in The
Brady Bunch Movie and forward. I
guess he decided to improve finally and
it's about time. |
