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Howling II:
Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985)

Rate: 4
Viewed: 12/08, 3/22

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12/08: Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf, as the title implies, is supposed to focus on the sister part but instead discards it and, if I follow this correctly, goes after the leader of the werewolves.

Bordering between soft porn and horror with passable special effects, the editing is weirdly done, throwing my attention off. Elsewhere, the acting isn't good, and even the overused Christopher Lee can't save the movie.

As the popular legend goes, werewolves can only be killed by silver bullets, but not this one as they are now superseded by titanium daggers. Back to the sister part: she doesn't look like Dee Wallace in any way, shape, or form, That's when I had been confused whether the sequel picks up where the original left off or is simply a different film in its own right.

The song lyrics are pathetic, making my viewing experience worse than necessary. In fact, the infamous closing credits, with Sybil Danning repeatedly taking off the black sleeveless shirt to flash her boobs, is probably meant to paralyze me to stay longer for the worthless music video.

All in all, Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf is a horror farce.

3/22: Upgrading my rating from '2' to '4', Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf is an infamous horror movie for one and only one reason: Sybil Danning.

Seventeen is the number of times she rips her top off at the end. Why? I suppose it's to force me to stay for the insanely stupid rock video. *Sybil rips her top off* Really, I don't even want to know the name of the band or *Sybil rips her top off* the frontman with the retarded sunglasses. Sybil Danning wore hers because she had conjunctivitis the entire time.

The editing is not bad, *Sybil rips her top off* but there's an occasional inserted shot every ten minutes of either the concert or a sex orgy. *Sybil rips her top off* Sometimes, it's been both. They do nothing but add fuel to the runaway disaster. *Sybil rips her top off* At least, there are nice shots of Czechoslovakia; then again, who can't over there?

An actual WWII hero in Czechoslovakia, Christopher Lee injects some respectability by staying *Sybil rips her top off* serious *Sybil rips her top off* about the task on hand. Why did he do it? *Sybil rips her top off* Lee claimed to have not done a werewolf film during his career. That's weird because I thought he did a couple for Hammer Horror. *Sybil rips her top off* Now, he can check it off on his bucket list. Playing Ben, Reb Brown truly looks and acts like Ryan O'Neal.

At the beginning, when Christopher Lee shows the videotape *Sybil rips her top off* of what happened at the end of The Howling, the house is full of ancient Mayan symbols. It's the Ennis House, a residential dwelling located in Los Angeles ("The City of Angels" if you don't know what the city name means...*Sybil rips her top off*), that was shot in Blade Runner and The Thirteenth Floor. By the way, the videotape footage is horrible and certainly not the work of Rob Bottin. *Sybil rips her top off*

Some werewolf rules have been altered this time. Instead of silver bullets, titanium daggers must be used to kill these beasts. Hm, interesting. *Sybil rips her top off* I went WTF when the midget told Ben to wear ear plugs (are they teeth?) because they were supposedly holy. He would later clumsily lose them and die of a horrible werewolf howling. Garlic is needed for protection, but I thought they were for vampires? *Sybil rips her top off* I don't really understand this: if Stirba is over 10,000 years old, how can Stefan be her brother if he hadn't been a werewolf to begin with? *Sybil rips her top off* If Stefan has special powers, then what is he then?

All in all, Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf will always *Sybil rips her top off* *Sybil rips her top off* have a place in my Famous Bad Films List.