Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
R | 25 December 1985 (USA)
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When a young journalist dies in violent circumstances, her brother soon learns, by way of the mysterious Stefan Crosscoe, that his sister has succumbed to the werewolf curse.

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b_kite

Our film starts out after countless centuries of watching, waiting and stalking, the unholy creatures known as werewolves are poised to inherit the earth. After newscaster Karen White's (Hana Ludvikova, who is clearly not Dee Wallace, I mean she doesn't even have the same hair color!) shocking on-screen transformation and violent death, her brother Ben (Reb Brown) is approached by Stefan Crosscoe (Christopher Lee), a mysterious man who claims that Karen has, in fact, become a werewolf. But this is the least of their worries... To save mankind, Stefan and Ben must travel to Transylvania to battle and destroy Stirba, the immortal queen of all werewolves, before she is restored to her full powers!...The Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf is definitely a big WTF! when one views it for the first time and after Joe Dante's classic original, this has it all, odd characters witch serve no purpose, strange dwarfs running around, and countless odd werewolf orgy scenes, yes, i did say that. What is weird is that this is a European film as most of all of it was made in the Czech Republic, this results in almost all the cast being unheard of Europeans, the IMDb says that some of the film was filmed in Los Angeles maybe the over head shots were and the wear house scene, but, ill be damned if i see anything resembling L.A. here, in one version of the film the end credits plays the weirdest polka music ever heard, I'm not joking. There is also reports that Christopher Lee regrets being in the film only agreeing to do so, because he was never in a werewolf film, and it shows here, Lee hopelessly drags throw ever scene, not even looking like he's even trying. As for other acting its pretty bad Brown is awfully wooden when he isn't constantly screaming as he does in all his movies all the time. McEnroe is also amateurish and her character is pretty worthless. Danning is pretty much just here for one thing and you know what that is look hot, in scatty clothing. It was also reported that Lee would read his script alone, because co-stars Reb Brown and Annie McEnroe were so bad at there lines. He later reported that he apologized to Joe Dante for appearing in the film on the set of Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990).The special effects here are pretty bad and that's saying something from me because i can usually make the worst effect fun, but, here the werewolf costumes are ape looking and the film realize on prosthetic werewolf heads in several scenes, also director Phillipe Mora, moves and cuts the camera shots so fast you'll be drunk by the time the film ends, i mean the editing is really wild. As for violence and nudity, its wilder then the first film, a midgets eyes pop out, and a bat creature comes out of a mans mouth, some people and werewolves are also shot, stabbed, and clawed, as for nudity Sybil Danning shows off her breasts, which is repeated about a thousand times during the end credits, as do Marsha Hunt (you may know her as Mick Jagger's love interest and father of his child), as do several other werewolf women.All in all Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf is just plain crazy!!! and it fails extremely as a sequel to Joe Dante's classic original, its bad, but, I must say I enjoyed it for its wacked out campiness which is what its remembered for, I just shut my brain off and enjoy and Howling fans along with horror fans should also do the same. I have read the "The Howling" novel and its sequel "Howling II" the second book does not have any connection to this movie whatsoever. Also Scream Factory released the film on Blu-Ray with a list of several nice special features in 2015.

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Leofwine_draca

With the arrival of the inevitable sequel, the HOWLING series was already in decline, and there were numerous other offerings to come yet! With THE HOWLING being something of a modern, tongue-in-cheek classic in terms of werewolf horror, it was perhaps not too much to ask that THE HOWLING II would come at least close in terms of standard, but sadly it never becomes more than an average excursion into werewolf territory, full of what you would expect from the '80s - bloody deaths, just like something out of a slasher film.One of the main grievances with this film is the loud rock music which is pumped out at every opportunity, and in this respect the film has dated very badly, as the music is rubbish! Another annoyance is the state of the werewolves. Instead of getting prolonged moments with the werewolves in the first film, THE HOWLING II only shows us brief glimpses of werewolf things which don't look anywhere near as convincing this time around, and rubber was obviously a main ingredient in their creation. Along with the rubbery wolves is a plentiful amount of blood which is literally splashed around everywhere but it can't hide their flakiness.At the climax of the film, with the fight between Lee and Danning, bad early '80s computer effects come into play much to my amusement. Did nobody really realise that in 10 years time effects would have moved on and these kind of things would look very tacky indeed? I guess not. The actors and actresses in the film are all very average. The two leads are bland and almost monosyllabic. Sybil Danning is certainly a well-developed girl but she's no actress, although the suit she wears with metal strips is quite nice in an '80s-version-of-futuristic way.Christopher Lee though is on top form as the chief werewolf hunter and he treats everything more seriously than his fellow actors, and it's good to see him in a film again even if it isn't much of one. Jimmy Nail also pops up in a small role as a punk. Apart from the inappropriate, intrusive music, there is also an element of silliness to the film, exemplified by the closing credits where a shot of Danning ripping her top off is repeated over and over again! This crass '80s humour really doesn't belong in a film like this. There are a couple of good things to look out for, such as an authentic skeleton clock or a kinky werewolf sex scene, but otherwise this HOWLING outing is nothing to get too excited about (unless you're a Sybil Danning fan, that is...).

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Amityville15

The brother of Karen White who died in the first film is told the truth about his sister's death and helps an investigator track down the werewolves that made her what she is through Europe.This film starred: Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe & Reb Brown.Howling 2 is worse than the first film and I didn't like the first film. If I thought The Howling was bad I couldn't imagine the troubles I faced trying to watch this film. Many questions may be asked about this film but the only question i want answered is what class-A drug was Christopher Lee on to star on this film, I f I was him after this film I would have strapped my agent to a chair and made him/her watch this film over and over again until his eyes started to bleed through how bad it is.*/***** Awful.

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Jamie Spraggon

I don't know if the IMDb site administrators will count this a s a spoiler but I will list it just in case Howling 2 was a film about a man who's sister was Karen White who was played by Dee Wallace in the first movie. He is told about her being a werewolf and goes and helps a man wipe the rest of the werewolf species out across America and Europe.This was another bad film in the Howling series just like the first before it, I don't know how they persuaded Christopher Lee to be in this movie as you usually expect better things what he stars in a film. I was not to keen on the plot and the body in the coffin at Karen's funeral right at the beginning didn't even look like her one bit.**/***** Poor

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