Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Crappy film

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Ben White mourns his sister Karen who died under mysterious circumstances. At Karen's funeral, a strange guy named Stefan Crosscoe shows up and convinces Ben that his sister was a werewolf. They both travel to Transylvania to exterminate the lycanthropic plague. But it's not that easy. They need to kill the werewolf queen Stirba who has a huge army of hungry beasts under her command."Howling II" (1985) with the delightfully sensational subtitle "Stirba – Werewolf Bitch" is the sequel of Joe Dante's "The Howling" (1981). It starts where the first movie ends: With the the dead of TV host Karen White. The original already has a bit of a trash flavour, but the second part is a completely different ball game. The movie begins with Christopher Lee as Stefan Crosscoe reciting some spooky lines from an old book. Then there's a cemetery fight, werewolf sex, human sex, a little man, a werewolf orgy, a shootout in the middle of the night, some dark rituals and cheesy special effects all over the place. If you think this is even remotely thrilling or sexy, you'd be wrong. It certainly is funny, though. "Howling II" has the most hilarious closing credits I've ever seen. It's just a sloppy compilation of the previous scenes, where you'll see Stirba ripping her own clothes off over and over again, for like 20 times. Wow. I guess this was the director's favourite scene? On a more positive note, the dark rituals are eerie enough and the shootout at the end is kinda okay. And Christopher Lee is epic as always.Still, at the end of the day "Howling II" is an insult to the original. (And that's saying something.) At least the first part endeavoured to tell a serious and more or less intelligent story. The second part is pure schlock trying to capitalize on its violent and "sexy" scenes.

Incredibly idiotic, senseless, and utterly sleazy sequel to the popular 1981 werewolf film "The Howling" stars Sir Christopher Lee as Stefan Crosscoe, an occult expert determined to wipe out lycanthropes, in particular those who associate with the fiendish queen werewolf bitch Stirba (Sybil Danning). He makes a point of telling Ben White (Reb Brown), the brother of the Dee Wallace character from the first film, the specifics of her "death". When Ben is unable to deny the evidence, he heads off, with reporter Jenny Templeton (Annie McEnroe) in tow, for Transylania, to help Stefan in his werewolf killing mission.The story is absurd, the dialogue hilariously awful; poor Sir Christopher and Sybil have to utter some pretty dumb lines. The makeup effects are crude to the nth degree, but are delicious in their egregious lack of quality. The scene with the eyeballs exploding is pretty cool. In some ways, "Stirba - Werewolf Bitch" goes back to Gothic basics in a way by exploiting flavourful European Old World atmosphere. But it adds a lot of spice to the deal by being so damn trashy. The sexy ladies present dress quite provocatively, and Sybil is willing to disrobe and show off her ample assets. The New Wave pop soundtrack is a total hoot; we're made to listen to that priceless title theme song a number of times. Original "Howling" author Gary Brandner co-scripted, from his novel "Howling II: The Return", and maintains a very tongue in cheek approach. With the level of both cheese and trash on display, it's clear that this was never meant to be taken seriously.Sir Christopher looks pretty serious here, though; the movie does benefit from his professionalism. Sybil is a mildly amusing antagonist. Brown and McEnroe are just sort of there as hero and heroine. Marsha A. Hunt, Judd Omen, Ferdy Mayne (who has the same character name as John Carradine in "Howling" No. 1), Patrick Field, Jimmy Nail, and Jiri Krytinar co-star.Directed by Philippe Mora, who has the distinction of being director on two "Howling" sequels, the other being "The Marsupials: The Howling III".The end credits are actually a highlight.Seven out of 10.

The Howling 2 1985This is my first watch of the sequel The one think I can say about this movie is that, it was not boring at all and it did not take to long to get startedI was a bit annoyed from first werewolf scenes as when doing people turn to werewolf in day? Full moon plot was ignoredAs rest of the movie people were turning in werewolf in day light throughout , Which really bugged me.What the hell was the whole supernatural finger magic near the end , that just felt so out of place.The make up effects were not good at all and transformation scenes were really badly editedOne thing I actually liked was the song that played most of the movie , I had it stuck in my head the all day.I felt the acting was just mediocre 3/10

Appallingly stupid, poorly conceived sequel stars Christopher Lee(quite a comedown from his Hammer Films stardom!) as a mysterious hunter of werewolves, who persuades the brother of Karen White(Dee Wallace from Part I, absent here.) to accompany him to Transylvania(of course!) where he must destroy a powerful female werewolf and her clan, before they take over the world(or some such thing). Havoc ensues.Joe Dante did not return to direct this mess(never asked, apparently!) which was good news for him, since this is a true embarrassment for all concerned, though if you're a Sybil Danning fan, the bizarre ending credit sequence will no doubt be the highlight(it was!)