Great Film overall

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

In 1981 Joe Dante directed a New Age lycanthropic movie called The Howling, based on the 1977 horror novel of the same name, written by Gary Brandner. Up until this point in cinematic history, a rather outdated version of the Wolfman was still in circulation. The Howling, An American Werewolf in London, and Wolfen were all released in the same year, refreshing the palette of horror fans and movie-goers alike with an updated vision of this mythical creature. The effects in the 1980s allowed artists to create a convincing (for the time) transformation sequence without obstructing the view of the audience or panning the camera away. The success of the original The Howling spawned six additional sequels, each sharing no similarities. Dante gracefully bowed out after the completion of the first movie and Clive Turner, a man responsible for filling the role of producer in The Howling IV: The Original Nightmare and The Howling V: Rebirth, made his directorial debut with the latest and last in the series - Howling VII: New Moon.Whether it is known as fact or fiction, the production team recruited the local townsfolk into the role of "the locals." I'm not sure what the intention of this was...perhaps it was easier to obtain people at the location you are shooting at rather than shelling out additional money for trained actors from an almost nonexistent budget. In terms of budget, it clearly shows - the overall production value reminds me of watching a 2 am horror special in the late 80s. The dialog is awkward and unnatural to say the least. Clive Turner must have fancied himself a Renaissance man because not only did he direct, produce, and write the Howling VII, he played the lead character role. It's safe to say he can't act his way out of a cowboy hat. The soundtrack is anything but epic. The majority of the music is country/western...which I suppose is understandable given the environment. I just can't help but feel that Turner grew up in the area where he decided to shoot the film. It's obvious he's accustomed to the bar scene in a small town like this and even enjoys the local talent. While that might work for other directors, his main focus was to showcase band performances and gratuitous line dancing. This seemed more important to him than werewolves. After an hour into the film, the portrayal of the beast is done very similar to the movie Wolfen - the audience is forced to look through the eyes of the beast while it slaughters the unsuspecting townsmen. This is not an original technique but one that is poorly executed in this sense. Other ridiculous plot elements exist like the re-telling of past events that occurred in the previous installments of the Howling. I just consider this shameless filler and a pathetic way of making these devices viable.It's amazing that this movie was released in 1995 and looks much more dated than it is. I didn't make the realization that a seventh Howling movie existed until recently...and I consider myself a huge fan of the horror genre. I wish I could admit that this is a step up from The Howling III: The Marsupials - easily the most pitiful attempt at film-making EVER...but sadly, it teeters slowly on the edge of that atrocious stain. I can say that both films have something in common: they were almost impossible to sit through. You need a will made of iron in order to sit through films like these. So, in conclusion? Clive Turner needs to be snatched up by his britches, tied to the back of a wagon, and dragged one hundred yards down a cobblestone path. Then, on the verge of unconsciousness, tied to a rack with his head fixed firmly in place while subjected to watching The Howling VII: New Moon on a continuous loop - maybe then he will come to the realization that he should stay out of show business.

This is the worst film i've ever seen. I can't think of one redeeming feature of this film at all. I just wish I could erase it from my memory. Just bad. SO bad. Do yourself a favour and never ever ever waste your life watching this film. Someone bought me this film for a present because I like werewolf movies and I hadn't seen it. The really odd thing about it of course being it has no werewolves in it, well none that I could see. It had no plot. It had no-one that could act. It had the lamest special effects which I could only assume were done by someone with a Spectrum ZX81. I suppose the most abhorrent thing about this film is that it got made in the first place. Which crazy person saw the pitch and the 'script' and thought, "Yeah, I know, I'll just waste money on this and hope people will waste theirs on renting it". Just bad bad bad bad. I sincerely hope no-one considers making Howling 8. Just think how bad that would be! I was hoping there was a 0 vote on the voting thing because that's what this movie is, a big fat Zero.

A toe tappin', leg slappin' werewolf hoedown! The acting in this movie is 3rd rate (at best) -- not to mention it is practically a "musical." There was more bad country music in this film than in a Russian cowboy bar at happy hour. The plot is overly slow, there was no suspense or terror, and it simply doesn't logically flow into a cohesive whole. It even contains loosely tied together footage from previous Howling films, which only seem to resolve themselves into a self contradictory knot of nonsense. It's on my personal list of the worst films of all time, and I feel dumber just for having sat through it in it's entirety. Please don't ever watch this, if you do you may never watch another Howling flick again. You'd probably do better drinking a pint o' antifreeze, you ken?

Well, many people say to movies that "It's the worst they ever seen" but believe you me when I say that this is really the worst movie I've ever seen. It's not even funny bad, just plain awful.Plot? - I don't really know, is there? Werewolfs? - One in the last 20 seconds of the movie.Blood n Gore? - Naah,nothing good. Nothing at all in fact.Chills? - Yeah, realizing it's a real film and not just a joke.Dancing Hillbillies? - Yes, for about 90 minutes of the movie.This is so bad that it makes me cry out for justice. Never again should we have to watch a godforsaken awful movie like this. No further comments