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Another good thing...(SPOILER, like you care)


I actually really enjoy this movie. It's good that they don't make it terribly obvious who the werewolf really is. In a way, there's still "a little" doubt at the end. They never explain what the bus hit early in the movie.

It's interesting to watch it once you DO know who it was. Early in the movie, the person who is the werewolf says "It isn't easy pretending to be stupid."

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Hey there. I really liked this movie as well (and I admit this without shame). In a way - and I swear I'm not trying to elevate the movie to "high brow" status - the storyline reminds me of "And Then There Were None," the Agatha Christie book. What do you think?

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Make that three people who enjoyed this movie. It should have gotten a much higher rating than it has so far, maybe most people are to ignorant to really enjoy the mystery about it. I put it in my top 5 list of werewolf movies. It seemed as though there was more than one werewolf crawling around the castle though. The movie seemed to leave that impression on me.

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make that 4

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HOWLING V is quite close to the little-seen 1965 version of TEN LITTLE INDIANS that starred Hugh "Wyatt Earp" O'Brien, Shirley "Goldfinger" Eaton and the incredibly sexy Dahlia "Casino Royale" Lavi. And in fact, this HOWLING sequel is better than that version, although not nearly as good as the 1945 version starring Barry "The Quiet Man" Fitzgerald. It keeps you in suspense reasonably well, and the ending is a neat joke. The castle setting is truly creepy. The acting is where the movie falls down.

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This movie really isn't that bad. It's got great atmosphere - the huge old castle is a nice setting, decent gore, and when I watched it when I was younger I found the werewolf jump scenes to be kind of scary.

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This was probably the best of the howling sequels by a long way (although I also enjoyed part 6 as well), and it definitely pays an homage to classic Gothic horror and Ten Little Indians/ And Then there were none.

I also wonder if this may be a sly remake to a 70's werewolf film called the Beast Must Die.

It has a similar premise - a rich hunter invites a group of people to his private estate, and reveals that one of them is a werewolf.

And sure enough, they soon start to die one by one.

I haven't seen the Beast Must Die unfortunately, as it is somewhat obscure (though I do intend to get the Amicus DVD boxed set which it is part of one day), but it seems similar to the Howling V's basic premise.

The use of the werewolf fleetingly in shots is very very effective - I really enjoyed the scene when it erupts from the snow.

the castle is great too, and the idea of a Gothic mystery tale was a good one.


What a shame Clive Turner ruined everything when he took the money and ran to do the Howling VII - which is arguably the worst movie ever made. Period. And he used the same character he plays here.

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I have said for some years this movie is a nice wee timewaster with some excellent elements in there.

The crossbow sequence comes out of the blue and takes you by surprise and that way works even better.
The setting is superb and the ending caps it all off very nicely. I guess many people will have rated this as they have never seen it or the ones that have thought "it's low budget and part 5 so i didn't like it even if i did".

There is little in the way of budget but it is utilised very well by the director.
Not showing the werewolf as such but merely implying was a smart move too. If you don't have much of a budget then don't show us something cuddly and keep it to our imagination.

It's never going to be a classic but if you see it at a horror festival or watch it on a horror double bill somwhere it is time well spent. For it's budget, a nice wee film.


"Lucky to have the ability to see what i see, not what others 'see'"

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The werewolf also says, "I'm hungry", right before someone is killed.

I'm happiest...in the saddle.

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i looked up this movie because i like it so much i was hoping there would be others :) I do remember the bad acting but i loved the suspense of who the werewolf could be. id love to see it again

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i just saw it and was pleasantly surprised.
The great atmosphere, eerie surroundings and the fact that they do not show much of the werewolf makes this one of the greatest werewolf flicks i have ever seen.

The movie have pretty lame actors, goofy plot and a was little shy in the gore department but still the other things make up for it.

Definitely among the five best werewolf movies i have ever seen.
I would surely recommend this one to everyone who likes Werewolf movies.






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This film has some nostalgic factor to me that brought back appeal after about 15 years when I saw it on cable during a horror movie marathon. It's not that bad, I agree. The atmosphere is great, the direction is not bad, the characters are mostly average to above average, which ain't bad for a B-movie horror film. And it is a knockoff of Ten Little Indians, which is my favorite Agatha Christie book...and it does it halfway decently.

Though, I have to say, the movie does kinda make it obvious who the werewolf is...The killer was the only one left completely alone through half the movie (after about a third of the cast had been knocked off), and in the same vicinity of the killing of the two blonde haired dudes (same room as one, directly behind another as he ran down a hallway). Though I have to say, it wasn't terribly obvious who the werewolf was as you explained, which did still give it an air of mystery.

This movie is certainly not what I call a 'hidden gem' (which I am always looking for with horror movies, and have subjected myself to hundreds of films to find a handful that truly are...and man is it worth it when it happens!), but it's a decent B-movie horror film.

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"It's good that they don't make it terribly obvious who the werewolf really is. In a way, there's still "a little" doubt at the end."

I'm sorry, I don't see how there's any doubt whatsoever about who it was.

I'm happiest...in the saddle.

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