#11 - Howling II (1985)
(dir. Philippe Mora)
aka Howling II: ...Your Sister is a Werewolf or Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch, both terrible subtitles that they wisely didn't use on the poster.
Only tied into the original The Howling by the fact that it also has werewolves in it, this sequel tries really hard to be hip but mostly fails at it. Occult investigator Stefan Crosscoe (Christopher Lee) tracks a group of Los Angeles werewolves back to Transylvania, where he hopes to kill their leader "Stirba". Stirba leads a cult of super werewolves that are immune to silver, and who can only be killed by titanium. Being a werewolf seems to involve lots of posturing while wearing very little clothing, and not much in the way of actually transforming into a wolf or doing anything scary.
This is not a good film by any stretch, but it's entertaining in a kind of silly B-movie way. Lee is great, as always, but the rest of the cast around him is pretty weak. The soundtrack has exactly one decent song, "The Howling" by new-wave group Babel, and it is used as much as possible. I'm pretty sure it plays at least 5 times in this movie. The plot is dumb and boring, and the special effects are mostly bad, and come to think of it, this movie isn't really worth your time.
If you are a diehard Christopher Lee fan, this might be worth a watch, but otherwise I'd stay away. Just listen to this song while looking at a picture of a werewolf, it will be a better experience:
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