Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch (1985)

Just kidding.if you can make it all the way through, at least it has Christopher Lee, but during the end credits Sybil Danning has a scene repeated from the film where she rips off her shirt and bares her breast. They repeat it like 17 times. It made my mom laugh out loud.

Howling 2: Your Sister Is a Werewolf also known as Howling 2: Stirba Werewolf Bitch is a 1985 Horror Film directed by Philippe Mora whom has directed the Communion starring Christopher Walken and the sequel to Howling 2, Howling 3. The film is a direct follow up of the 1981 Howling film however the Dark Tone and Realism is nowhere to be seen. The Werewolves themselves don't look near as real nor as scary as the 1981 version, in fact when you do see them up close they look rubbery and fake, most of the time the werewolves are just people with added hair and latex which looks very goofy and inchoate. The film is credited as the Worst Sequel to a Horror movie and after the release of the abysmal Howling 3 all other sequels to the Howling series were made direct to video.Despite the films falls it is actually very entertaining, hence why I gave it a high score. No other film would show a woman ripping off her dress seventeen times to show us her boobs, have a awkward Sex scene involving werewolves which would make Furries run for their money, a climactic battle involving disco rays and a small puppet dragon. Not to mention the fact that they get Werewolves and Vampires mixed up in this wonderful train wreck of a film, examples including stabbing a werewolf's heart to kill them and werewolves been allergic to garlic along with the fact that they have a character call Stirba who is the equivalent of Count Dracula and live in a castle in Transylvania. Oh, and she is also a Witch who has magical dark powers, yeah this film has everything. The story is convoluted it begins at the funeral of the girl who was killed in the previous movie who was investigating a secret society of werewolves which she was briefly a part of. Lee meets up with the Brother of said girl and tells him and his love interest (Annie McEnroe) that she was a Werewolf, later on the trio meet up again and after showing proof that the dead girl was indeed a werewolf they go to Transylvania to hunt and kill the Werewolves' Queen Stirba, and the movie just get sillier from then on.Christopher Lee looks annoyed throughout the film in fact if you look carefully you can kind of see that he really doesn't want to be in this film. Sybil Danning who plays Queen Stirba is clearly enjoying herself with this film overacting to the max. Annie McEnroe acts and talks like a Baby always wondering what Christopher Lee's character is doing or where he went to, he's probably suing his manager for making him star in this film. The extras who are supposed to be Romanian are actually all Czechs, interesting fact they couldn't film in Romania due to the political problems they were facing at the time so they instead filmed in Prague hoping no one would notice that many of the extras are speaking Czech and not Romanian. What can I say the film is pure Entertainment it never slows down or becomes boring, it is the perfect film to watch on a drunken Friday afternoon with friends.

This second film is nowhere near as good as the original film - not even close. The only real reasons to watch this film is Christopher Lee (he's always great) and just to say I've seen that werewolf film - that's it.This should have been a fantastic follow up film to the original where her brother investigates her death but instead turned out to be another 1980s horror cheese fest. This whole script should have been scraped and rewritten into a great 2nd movie. I like Sybil Danning and LOVE Christopher Lee - but this film is just bad.I do find the movie an eye-roller at the stupid campiness and crappiness of it all. Kinda fun in a way but not a film to watch over and over again.4/10

It is of no debate that 'Howling II' is universally considered a bad movie. It is really bad but the question has been is this a diamond in the rough of eighties cheese that connoisseurs of corn can revel in? The answer is a no sadly. 'Howling II' does not meet the criteria for a good bad film because it has trouble filling it's ninety minute runtime. The movie is essentially the late great Christopher Lee spouting apocalyptic warnings in between cuts of werewolf S&M sex that is basically pornography. That it is such a boring movie is kind of beyond me...My draw to the film was Christopher Lee, the late horror legend. The loss of his great talent pains me but he left a magnificent legacy of wonderful performances in classic horror films. 'Howling II' is his turd. I used to believe that Lee and his frequent partner Cushing could do no wrong in this type of role even if the film was bad. The problem is that 'Howling II's complete ineptness brings Lee down. Largely it is the fault of the inane dialogue which Lee himself cannot save although by God he tries his hardest. The problem being that Lee emanates intelligence and depth in his on screen persona and when this dialogue is so slap together with no concern to theme or character, well it makes Lee look stupid. This is so unfortunate. Seeing as how Lee is wasted there was really no chance of this film working as everything else is pretty pathetic. The campiness of Sybill Danning as Stirba wears off quickly. I mean the werewolf orgies are funny at first but it ends up being the only thing the werewolves do in the film. One thinks that instead of the S&M costumes they should have spent a little more of the budget on perfecting the werewolves which look like second rate Chewbaccas. The cardinal sin of 'Howling II' is it's padding. It doesn't know how to fill a feature and thus a criminal amount of padding is added to the script to increase it's run time. The same theme song is repeated at least five times. We get harrowing scenes of our heroes looking for their hotel or pondering about whether a dwarf is watching them. In my opinion a bad movie cannot be a good bad movie if it doesn't have a sense of purpose or a brisk pace. 'Howling II' drags and it drags bad. It would be fine if we spent more time with Lee but with the shaved gorilla Reb Brown the whole thing becomes a chore.The excessive scenes are entertaining for a little bit but it isn't worth sitting through the whole thing. One gets the whole effect of the 'Howling II' in a short Youtube compilation clip and sometimes that is the best way to experience a bad movie. I wouldn't watch it again except in a Rifftrax scenario or if I were to pelt it with insults with a friend.