Howl

We are all our own haunted houses but few come to grips with the traumas that create the nightmares. If you're looking for a forgettable 2 hours of "typical" this isn't your kind of film. But if you're looking for an indie that keeps after you, insisting that we face up to what's wounded us before we would others or ourselves, then this ones for you. It's not the wolves around us that need naming & taming but those within.

This is a well directed movie that keeps you watching to out all the pieces of the storyline together. It's not a predictable movie which keeps you watching and that's how a good movie is suppose to be. The lead Actress (Michele Martin) in the movie is an emotional mess who is funny, sexy, sad, happy, mysterious that makes the character easy to fall in love with. All of the supporting cast is great and gels with the lead actress to make HOWL a well rounded movie.

If you are like me that always watch anything that has wolves and vamps, this movie should be the exception. Incredible boring, the story is all over the place, bad acting, no special effects. This is the lowest rating I ever gave a movie. Not worth the time.

This is one of the best examples of well done psychological thrillers that I've seen in a long time Michelle Martin does a wonderful job demonstrating the intricacies of a dark mind. I was deeply impressed with the overall writing and storytelling demonstrated within this movie. Overall a wonderful experience.

Howl is Michele Martin's first feature as director/writer/star and it plays like an entertainingly heated fever dream. While filmed on a modest indie budget, it's impressive how well Martin has captured the lurid, hallucinatory vibe of the Hammer Horror films of the 1950's-1970's, and mashed that up with classic fairy tale elements (especially Red Riding Hood and Beauty and the Beast) along with a dash of modern sexual awakening (complete with a scary zealot mother) a la Stephen King's Carrie. Martin, Scott Hamm (as a hunky, possibly lupine neighbor), and the rest of the cast are clearly having fun keeping us guessing as to what's real and what's in our heroine's head. And the color red is so playfully front and center it should get co-star billing in this twisted little fable. If you're looking for a contemporary horror flick with a touch of romance and psychosexual awakening, wrapped in a lovingly indie vintage vibe, you'll want to sink your canines into this ambitious first film.