Hurlements V: la re-naissance

I first saw this in the early 90s on a vhs.

Revisited it recently.

We dont get to see a single werewolf in the entire movie and all the kills are offscreen except for a lousy decapitation.

This one is more like a whodunnit without any suspense, tension or engrossing story.

i first saw this movie about 4 years ago, and feel in love with it almost instantly. At the time i had never seen any of the Howling movies, in fact, i don't think i had even heard of the howling before this. Now that i have seen them all, i can see that Howling 5 is by far the best in the series.

The other howling movies seem to be a lot of talk and very little action, especially Howling 4 and 7. For all in this installment of the Howling, there is little Werewolf action, the fact that you do not see the werewolf, i believe, adds to the suspense. In Howling 4, the werewolves are seen in great detail, and i think this ruined it, as the wolves were overdone and slightly silly. In this, the idea of the wolf, and the three second shots of teeth etc. are more effective then a full plastic-wolf bounding about the castle after the victims.

one other thing i have to note, is the incidental music. Whenever one of the cast is butchered by the werewolf, a sinister piece of opera is played and the scene pans off, so you dont get to see the body until later. When i first saw the scenes like this, i couldn't help but laugh. For all i love it, and i think it is a brilliant effect, the first impression for someone who considers Excalibur an extension of Monty Python can find the incidental operatic slightly humorous.

This movie is by far the best of all the Howling movies, and is a movie all werewolf fans should find enjoyable.

Finally someone has the cajones to put werewolves in a castle and initiate murder mystery slasher mode. My god, how did it take till 1989 to kick this into gear? And what fun we have here!

At least in terms of a C-movie eclectic character cast and some cool castle cinematography. This is a murder mystery where you don't really care about the reveal, and you know it's a werewolf anyway so the why isn't important. It's also a slasher where there's not much bloodletting or fun. It lies somewhere flatly in-between these two genres that share so much in common and yet can't meet a happy middle ground.

Basically this is the werewolf version of Ten Little Indians. A group of people end up stranded at a castle during a snowstorm and while they wait for it to end someone or something begins to pick them off one by one. With the howling and teeth marks on the bodies it points to one of them not being what they seem. This is actually a fairly descent Howling movie but it does have a small budget. I will give credit in the fact that they did well with what they had. The ending is also somewhat clever if you are not paying close attention throughout the movie. Overall not bad for what it is and is better than some of the other sequels.

Howling V: The Rebirth was better than I expected it to be, but still not a very good film. I don't know about you, but when I watch a werewolf movie I hope to actually SEE the werewolf from time to time. You DON'T SEE THE WEREWOLF in this movie. There are parts of it shown for a couple seconds here and there, but you never see the whole thing. This movie tries to be a mystery, wanting you to figure out who the wolf is. It isn't too hard to figure out, and the answer is confusing. If you want to watch a good werewolf movie, try the first Howling (stay away from parts 3 and 7 AT ALL COSTS) or Silver Bullet.