Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988)

You won't be disappointed!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The first must-see film of the year.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

A well known female journalist takes a needed break out in the Californian countryside along with her husband(?) but there are mysterious things going on, the locals aren't very friendly and at night she can hear howling! More of a remake than a sequel. We don't get to see a werewolf proper until after an hour into the film, but prior to that there is horror in the form of psychological tension & ghostly happenings. Now I can understand many viewers feeling cheated by this but for me personally I felt that it worked fine. However, last half hour provides enough werewolf action to make the wait worthwhile. The best transformation scene sees a man literally MELT into a werewolf. There's a fair smattering of gore plus one inevitable sex scene. I'm not sure if the film was dubbed but sometimes the speech & mouth actions don't match, but just a minor moan. Obviously I'm in the minority here but like I said I found it reasonably entertaining & trust me, there are far worse werewolf movies out there!

The successful author Marie Adams is haunted by nightmares. In order to recover, she travels to the countryside with her husband Richard. At night, she hears the howling of wild animals. Together with the former nun Janice she tries to uncover the mystery. Does that sound familiar? You bet it does. "Howling IV" is the forth entry in the "Howling" series and basically a rehash of the original "The Howling" from 1981. They most certainly wanted to distance themselves from the two trash escapades that were Part II and III. That was probably a good idea. Unfortunately, the result is a veritable snoozefest.Bless them, they were trying their best to give the story some kind of class. But it's just plain boring. The movie spends a whole hour to mystifying the fact that we are dealing with werewolfs here. We already know that, guys! It's the fourth movie, there's no need to be so secretive about it. The production is riddled with shortcomings. The editing is unbelievably sloppy and the sound is inconsistent. The script is slow and predictable. The special effects at the end of the movie are alright, and the obligatory transformation scene is pretty cool. But at this point, why should we even care?"Howling IV" is a truly mystifying movie. There's just no good reason for this remake to exist. It's worse than the original in every single way, and the original wasn't that great in the first place. A lycanthropic sleeping pill – ingest at your own risk.

Another entry in the worst franchise ever. This is almost unwatchable due the slowness of the flick. I made sure that I had the uncut version to see all the gore. And be advised. If you are collecting the Howling franchise do please pick up the uncut version otherwise there's nothing to see. It's only the last 15 minutes that contain horror. O yes, throughout the flick a couple is killed but you don't see any werewolf, you only hear him howling, next shot, a throat being bitten. But it is in fact the transformation that makes it watchable but you have to sit almost 80 minutes in a boring flick to see it. It isn't your typical transformation. The person melts completely in gory fashion and resurrect as a werewolf. Once a werewolf it just looks cheesy. Or just see the doctor showing his real face. Camp and cheesy.Start this flick, go wash yourself, do the laundry, just do everything you have to do but set an alarm after 80 minutes, from there this flick delivers. Oh,before I forget it, yes there's a bit of small nudity.Gore 1,5/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 3/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

After undergoing a psychological breakdown, a writer staying at a secluded cabin and a friend try to convince her skeptical husband that the ghostly visions of werewolves she sees are real and sets out to solve the mystery of their appearance.This here is a really entertaining and enjoyable werewolf entry, and a rather underrated horror effort in any regard. One of the main selling points in this one, and one of the better aspects of the whole series, is the fact that this one manages to come up with a grossly entertaining and engaging mystery set-up with the werewolf history in the town, the appearance of the two girls and the town itself, mixed well together and made it incredibly entertaining and interesting, since it's a well-designed storyline that moves into greater, more threatening detail as more is discovered later on in the film. As this is accomplished with the mixing of a great sense of reality-or-dreams, creepy locals in a creepy locale as the night-time scenes are pretty tense and a fair degree of werewolf action and it turns into a rather entertaining affair before all the graphic violence and enjoyable werewolf-makeup are utilized, which here are all done incredibly well and features enough to appease gore-hounds and those looking for the more traditional werewolf style. It even manages a few good scare scenes, mainly the transformation after a sex scene but a couple others get spread out in the film as well, making it all the better. The main complaint about this one, beyond the low-budget nature, is the sense of déjà-vu that permeates this one due to its storyline and plot origins, but that really isn't as noticeable as it should be, and overall, this one is pretty fun.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Sexual Situations and Adult Language