SpuffyWeb
Sadly Over-hyped
Ameriatch
One of the best films i have seen
Rio Hayward
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Sanjeev Waters
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
manisimmati
Australia in the 80s. Donny falls in love with the beautiful Jerboa. Unfortunately, Jerboa turns out to be a werewolf. But Donny doesn't seem to care and they both flee into the wild. Meanwhile, werewolf expert professor Beckmeyer is assigned to exterminate all the werewolfs. The scientist grows to like the misunderstood creatures and tries to hide them from the military. Will that work?"Howling III" is the third part of the Howling series. It was directed by Philippe Mora who was responsible for the sleazy second part as well. At this point I am inclined to call Philippe the Ed Wood of werewolf flicks, because "Howling III" is a glorious trash gem. It is a wild mixture of different genres: It begins as a romance, mutates into a horror comedy and ends as a sentimental condemnation of racism. Sounds great? Guess what: It is.The humorous parts are surprisingly self-reflective. There's a pretentious director talking about Andy Warhol making a really demented movie. There's a scene where Jerboa and Donny watch a terrible horror flick. A B-movie in a B-movie! That's genuinely hilarious. Mora cites many other movies, such as "Psycho", "Alien" and even "An American Werewolf in London". (Oh, the irony.) The ending is a nod to "The Howling" from 1981. Pretty cool. The horror scenes in "Howling III" are gross, especially the infamous birthing scene which is just
yuck. But there's some decidedly awesome stuff, too. There's a werewolf zombie, guys! And a guy blowing himself up with a freaking rocket launcher.If you haven't already guessed, this movie is all over the place. At the end it becomes a cutesy romance, which makes you wonder if you're watching a perverted prototype of the "Twilight" series. You've got to give Philippe Mora some credit. This movie is quite original. It certainly is one of the most unusual werewolf flicks ever. The script treats them as an endangered species, not as bloodthirsty monstrosities. That's a nice touch. Still, many things are downright bad: The acting is abysmal at times, the special effects are sloppy and the story is full of plot holes.Philippe Mora's "Howling III" is a spectacular mess. It's the fabric cult classics are made of. If you're a trash fan, this one is a must-see. But be warned: It might fry your brain.
atinder
Howling 3 1987This was more of stand alone as it's as it own story and back plot and it not connected to last two moviesand I really don't know what to make of this movie as this is even worse then second one,I actually found the movie very boring from start to end Even the werewolf were not interesting at all and those scenes were so god dame awful , it was so bad , it wasn't so bad that it funny , it just worst effects I have seen for a werewolf movie.saying that I did laugh out , when the nuns turned up at the party , the make up effect for nuns were unbeliever bad . The acting in this was also really bad , everyone felt limed they forcing there lines, tell the truth I think they knew the movie would suck , so they could not bothered to there best. Ionly seen movie last night , I forgot how it ended or my brain is trying to block out of memory for goodI going to give this 2 out of 10
CinematicThylacine
While some people say this is the worst entry in the Howling series, I actually think it is one of the best of the sequels following the Joe Dante classic. Let's get one thing straight, this is an intentional camp film and takes great glee in being as cheesy as humanly possible. Here we are introduced to a new breed of lycanthrope from the Land Down- Under, a were-creature based on the long extinct thylacine. I don't want to give anything in the plot away but I would of really preferred if the movie focused more on giving us lots of werewolf action instead of focusing almost entirely on a certain romance-subplot. So in closing, I feel you should sit down with your friends and have have a laugh while watching this campy film.....
Michael_Elliott
Howling III (1987) * 1/2 (out of 4) The third film in the series has no connection to the first two so this here works best as a standalone episode or at least a different werewolf film that has the "HOWLING" tied in for commercial reasons. There are two stories going on here with the first being a scientist trying to figure out if the werewolf footage his grandfather shot in 1905 is actually a real wolf. The second story deals with a young woman breaking away from her family but this isn't your typical woman, she's actually a werewolf. Soon the two stories come together and the end result just isn't very good. HOWLING III has a pretty poor reputation and a lot of this seems to be from fans who simply don't like the fact that this film has no real connection to the first two movies. I can see how that might be disappointing to people but the real issue is the story itself, which is just silly and never really makes too much sense. This entire thing is more Oxploitation than anything else as we get some pretty silly sequences that pop up out of nowhere and don't go anywhere. I think the highlights of the film has to be the pregnant woman giving birth to a werewolf baby and of course since we're talking Australia you have to have her carry the baby around in her pouch just like a kangaroo. These scenes are just so outrageous that you can't help but smile at them and wish the entire film was about these patches. There's no question that the film goes for many laughs and I think this is part of the problem. It seems to try and be more like the first film in the series but there's simply nothing clever going on here. The performances aren't too bad but these aren't what people come to see. For a horror film there's really no scares and for a horror film of the 80s there's not any gore either.