The Howling

I am a Doctor and the Medics fan, which is why I saw this movie. Oh how the mighty have fallen. It is so sad to see the desperation of washed up 80's stars to try to regain glory. It is even sadder to see Clive Jackson to be proud of this mess. The movie looks like it was shot by high school students. With no budget. Actually, high school students would have done a better job. Poor story line, poor acting, poor character development. It shows anybody can make a movie.

Being black and white we miss out on seeing Tiffany-Ellen Robinson's lovely red hair. It's a shame. The film is a little bit campy. It has a plot. Not much of a plot but it has one. You can tell some thought was put into this and that they're seriously trying to make an homage to 1960's horror. Also it's British and seems independent so it's not going to be a Hollyweird piece is it. I found the film to be reasonably watchable. You certainly couldn't predict what was going to happen. Why they called it the Howling is baffling. I thought going in oh no not another werewolf film. And thankfully it's not. It's more like the Island of Dr. Mauro than the Howling. It deserves a 6/10 as it's slightly original and a bit different. It's certainly no worthy of the 1/10 scores being dropped all over in the other reviews. If you know horror from the last century you can tell what this was about.

I have no problems with college looking movies. After all, the Blair Witch Project was a classic. First problem with this movie is the name. The Howling was a classic movie first released in 1981. If a movie can't even think of an original name and uses a classic, you know there are problems. The story line was weak, the filming looked cheap and characters such as Baron Rathbone IV were laughable and demonstrated some of the worse acting I have ever seen. Run, don't walk from your movie. You will be upset that you wasted the time.

Steven M Smith is a prolific UK producer of Horror and gangster genre movies, predominantly based in or around East London, Kent and Essex. The Howling is an artistic portrayal of a horror movie with shades of Nosferatu and other classic horror influences. Some great character work particularly by JP Gates. Recommended to all lovers of the genre.

In the presentation we are already informed that this is a B movie, as a tribute to the 60s, I intend to watch the original version of The Howling, from 1981, the script is reasonable, the production is crude, but if you don't take it seriously , we embarked on Ed Wood's films, blood, guts, high-pitched screams, mean interpretations, passionate...